KANNAPOLIS, N.C. – Ryan Newman has won 18 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races during his career and they’ve come on tracks that are .75-mile, 1 mile, 1.5 miles, 2 miles and 2.5 miles in length. But he’s never won on a road course and he’s never taken the checkered flag at a half-mile track. The road course races at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., and Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International are complete for 2011, but he can … Read entire article »

For the first half of Sunday’s TUMS Fast Relief 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway, Ryan Newman clearly had one of the cars to beat with his No. 39 Tornados Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR), which led twice for 32 of the opening 127 laps of the 500-lap event around the .526-mile paperclip-shaped oval. But on lap 247, just before the race’s halfway point, Newman radioed to crew chief Tony Gibson that he had a broken rear gear. Within the next five laps, Gibson directed him to the garage, where the Tornados crew swapped transmissions and replaced the unit and driveshaft. The repair took 42 laps in all, and Newman rejoined the race in the 37th position on lap 293. He went on to pick up … Read entire article »

Martinsville, VA – Ryan Newman put the No. 39 US Army Impala SS on the pole for the Tums Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway. It is the third NASCAR Sprint Cup Series pole for Newman at the Virginia track, his second of the season and 45th of his career. … Read entire article »