Ryan Newman News and Information

Ryan Newman started today’s Pep Boys Auto 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in 17th position after qualifying was rained out and the field had to line up according to owners points.

Carl Edwards was the winner of todays race.

Newman also started today coming off his win in the Craftsman Truck Series yesterday. Yesterday was also his first ever Truck series start. Only 3 other drivers ever have won their first start in the truck series.

POST RACE QUOTES WILL BE HERE
Ryan Newman (No. 11 Kodak Dodge Charger) Finished 16th

“We struggled for sure. We started the race just really loose. I don’t think that I ever raced a looser racecar than that in my life. I fell back a bit, got back on the lead lap and finished in the top-20. I wish it was a 200 lap race because we didn’t achieve much from lap 201 on.”

END

In the first 20 laps Newman reported that he was real loose up high and “kind of” tight on the bottom. At this point he was up to 14th after falling back to 19th at the start of the race.

LAP 30
Newman reported that he was real loose and wanted a pound out of the right rear and probably a round out as well.

LAP 34 Caution
The second caution of the day came out on lap 34 when Scott Rigs went into the wall. Newman and McCauley decided to put 2 pounds in the left year and take 1.5 out of the left rear. He went in the pits in 16th and came out in 15th.

LAP 43
A couple laps after the restart Newman had worked his way up to 12th position and looking strong. He was silent on the radio. A couple of laps later he reported that he was getting a little bit looser as they went along.

LAP 62
Newman had fallen back to 16th as Casey Mears, Jeff Burton, Tony Stewart and Jamie McMurray had got by him. Newman was reporting that he was WAY TO LOOSE. McCauley said that they would get aggressive with it on the next stop.

Newman sounding out of breath came over the radio and said

“WE GOT TO MAKE A HUGE CHANGE HERE!!”

LAP 71
McCauley told Newman that they had about 20 laps to go. Newman replied

“I will not have a right rear tire left”……”I have never been this loose in my life”

McCauley replied that some of the changes would include 4 round on the track bar and tire pressures.

LAP 86
Newman pits under green right as Carl Edwards the leader was closing on him. The plan was 4 rounds down on the trackbar, 1 round out and air pressures.

Newman went a lap down right as he entered the pits and by the time he left he was 2 laps down and in 27th.

JIMMIE JOHNSON who is the championship points leader got a pit road penalty for entering the pits to fast and had to make a drive through. When all was said and down he was a lap down and in 29th.

LAP 92
Pits had cycled through and Newman gained his laps back. He was on the lead lap in 21st position.

Unfortunately he also reported that he was “wicked loose”. Not good after making some pretty big adjustments.

Carl Edwards the race leader was about 20 car lengths behind Newman preparing to put him a lap down.

LAP 97
Carl Edwards gets around Ryan Newman putting him a lap down. Newman was still reporting that he was wicked loose and Newman had lost the lucky dog position with a lap or 2.

LAP 109 Caution
Caution comes out and Newman and McCauley decide to take 3 rounds out of the right rear. Newman entered the pits in 21st. They had discussed putting rubbers in as well but Newman did not want to do that because he wanted to stay as close as possible to the front of the lap down cars to TRY and get in the Lucky Dog position.

Newman came out of the pits in 21st – 1 lap down. They had to get a ruling to see who was the first out of the pits – Newman or Jimmie Johnson. No ruling came from NASCAR so Jimmie started in front of Ryan in the Lucky Dog position.

LAP 124
Clint Bowyer and Ryan Newman were battling pretty hard for the 21st position. Might sound silly but this is the second position back for the Lucky Dog. Newman eventually lost the battle and landed in 22nd position.

Newman was reporting that the car was already loose. He must have meant looser because he had been loose all day. But he said that he started off tight and went loose.

LAP 130 Caution
Kasey Kahne was also really loose and spun in the corner. Jimmie Johnson was the Lucky Dog. McCauley was calling for 2 round in the left rear and 2 rounds out of the right rear along with 4 tires. Then added that they were also putting a pound in the left rear.

Newman restarted in 22nd and the second car a lap down. A total of about 12 cars are a lap down. Clint Bowyer restarted a head of Newman in the Lucky Dog position.

Clint Bowyer took off with the Lucky Dog position on the restart.

LAP 148
Newman is down to the 23rd and was reporting that his car was now tight.

LAP 165
McCauley informed Newman that his last lap was awesome.

LAP 185
Newman pits under green with the rest of the field. 4 tires and fuel. 1 round out of the left rear. He entered the pits in 19th-1 ap down during the green flag pit stops and exited 28th 2 and 2 laps down.

When the pit cycles were complete Newman was in 22nd and 1 lap down. He was the 6th car back for the Lucky Dog.

LAP 209 Caution
Michael Waltrip went into the wall. Newman said he was a little tight at the end of the 23 lap run. He stated that he started off really tight.

1/2 round out of the left rear, 4 tires and fuel was the call.

Newman restarted 21st and 1 lap down.

Newman’s teammate Kurt Busch restarted in the first position.

LAP 225 – 100 to go
Newman had dropped to 23rd. No report on the car at this point. Greg asked Newman if he could run high in 1 and 2 and low in 3 and 4 like yesterday (Truck Race). With so explicits Newman replied that todays car was not yesterdays car (truck).

LAP 250
Newman was up to 20th. Reporting that he was too tight. McCauley told him that they would loosen it up on the next stop.

LAP 253 Caution
Debris.

4 tires, fuel and taking 2 rounds out of the left rear is what McCauley calls for. There was no response from Ryan. When the caution came out Newman was in 21st.

Newman restarted in 20th. 17th position was the first car a lap down. That was Jeff Burton.

LAP 273
Newman reports that he is loose off the high side of 1 and 2. He was up to 19th at this point. Soon after he came on and just said “too loose”. Greg told him that even though he was too loose he was looking real good. McCauley echoed “Good Lap”.

LAP 285
Newman got around Clint Bowyer for the 18th position. The good news was that there was only 1 more position to get to in order to be in the Lucky Dog position. The bad news was that Jeff Burton was currently holding that position and was far ahead of Newman.

LAP 289 Caution
Caution comes out as Michael Waltrip spins. That puts Jeff Burton on the lead lap with the Lucky Dog. Before the pit stops Newman was in the new Lucky Dog position.

Newman entered the pits in 18th and 1 lap down.

4 tires and 1 round in the left rear was the call from McCauley.

Newman restarted in 18th, the first car a lap down. That meant that he restarted as the Lucky Dog!

Newman got a great restart and jumped in front of the leader Denny Hamlin.

Hamlin soon got back around Newman putting Newman a lap down again.

LAP 298 Caution
The caution came out for Waltrip I believe. NEWMAN WAS THE LUCKY DOG!!!!!

Newman pits for JUST 4 tires. No fuel or anything.

Newman restarted in 17th – the last car on the lead lap.

LAP 303 Caution
Newman just avoids a wreck involving Jeff Burton, Juan Pablo Montoya, Dave Blaney and Reed Sorenson.

They plan on putting 4 tires on this time. Roy and Ryan kind of have words on the radio over nothing really.

Last minute they decide to put a little extra air in the tires because it is going to be a short run.

After the accident and with the caution Newman was being shown in 15th.

Newman restarted in 15th with 16 laps to go.

LAP 310
Newman shot up to 13th right at the green flag and soon after was looking at 11th.

LAP 312 Caution
Newman was in 12th when the caution came out for debris. Newman reported that it was a little tight. 5 cars behind Newman were on the lead lap.

The plan was that if the cars behind Newman pitted, then Newman was going to dive down and pit as well. That is what happened and Newman was the first car to go to the pits.

They just put 4 tires on and that was all.

He exited pit road in 14th, loosing 1 position.

Newman finished in 16th.

Rank	+/-	Car	Driver	Make	Points	Behind	FIN Pos	Laps Led
1	–	Jimmie Johnson	6248	Leader	5	6	14	21
2	2	Carl Edwards	6065	-183	1	7	16	24
3	-1	Greg Biffle	6063	-185	2	2	11	16
4	-1	Jeff Burton	6030	-218	0	2	7	17
5	1	Kevin Harvick	5941	-307	0	0	6	16
6	1	Jeff Gordon	5936	-312	3	0	11	17
7	-2	Clint Bowyer	5934	-314	0	1	5	15
8	–	Tony Stewart	5847	-401	0	1	10	15
9	1	Matt Kenseth	5835	-413	0	0	9	19
10	-1	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	5829	-419	1	1	10	15
11	–	Denny Hamlin	5823	-425	1	1	11	17
12	–	Kyle Busch	5783	-465	2	8	17	19