Ryan Newman News and Information

As most of you know, Greg Newman (Ryan’s Dad) has been Ryan Newman’s spotter forever. Not any longer. Ryan Newman and Greg Newman have agreed to that they need to get back on a father / son level and turn the spotting over to someone else.

Greg Newman was replaced as spotter for Newman by Jimmy Kitchens in the offseason. Kitchens, who drove in the Nationwide Series between 1994 and 2005, will make his Cup debut with the team during Saturday’s Budweiser Shootout at Daytona International Speedway.

You can read the full article at HERE AT NASCAR.COM, but here are some excerpts.

“It was very difficult at times for my dad and I to have a father-son relationship at the race track versus a competitive relationship at the race track,” Newman said.

“It was a tough situation because with my dad spotting and Tony being the crew chief, I only had two people I could vent to,” Newman said. “Those were the only two people that I could talk to, or who talked to me, on a given race.

“So if it got heated, my only options were to vent to one or both of them. My dad could vent to someone there on the spotter stand or Gibson could look over at the engineer and say, ‘What the hell is he talking about?’ But for me, those were the only two guys I could talk to. Somebody’s got to stay calm, among the three of us.”