Season Career. Busch Clash. Duel 1. Daytona International Speedway. Homestead-Miami Speedway. Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Phoenix Raceway. Atlanta Motor Speedway. Bristol Motor Speedway Dirt. Martinsville Speedway.
Richmond Raceway. Talladega Superspeedway. In total the Indiana native finished with two tops, highlighted by a season-best sixth-place run in a chaotic fall Talladega race. He was named the Cup Series rookie of the year in and won the Daytona and the Brickyard He has finished inside the top 10 of the final Cup standings on seven occasions; including a second-place finish in , and has qualified for the NASCAR Cup playoffs on nine different occasions since its inception in With the pressure at a fever pitch and all eyes on Newman, the team scored a dramatic eighth-place finish in the cutoff race at Indianapolis to earn the No.
Throughout the race playoff run, Newman put together an additional four top finishes, including the near-win in Talladega where he was edged at the line by. Despite not advancing through to the Championship round, Newman and the team ended on a strong note, putting together a seventh-place result in Homestead. The hard-nosed driver set the tone for in the season opener where Newman survived what seemed like a flurry of accidents in the Daytona , to salvage a 14 th -place finish, despite a mangled right front tire.
That driver improved even more into the spring as he and the team put together an average finish of ninth in April with three-consecutive top results. Prior to his five-year stint at RCR, Newman spent five seasons with Stewart-Haas Racing, where he was a four-time winner with 78 top and 30 top-five finishes. The season produced a November win for Newman at Phoenix, one of his two wins at the track. The following year, Newman made his fourth appearance in the Chase and finished 10 th.
His 16th-career win followed in at Martinsville Speedway in April as he closed out the season 14th in points. Newman started from the pole and kissed the famed bricks after winning the Brickyard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
In addition to five ARCA events, Newman ran 15 Busch Series races that season, winning poles in his second and third career starts and scoring his first career win at Michigan International Speedway in just his ninth career start.
I'm not announcing any kind of retirement or anything like that. I really just, I don't have anything on paper for next year right now. Ryan Newman talks about whether Sunday will be his last Cup race. His view of his future, his career and the emotions heading into the season finale: pic. Unfortunately for Newman, he doesn't enter the free agent pool from a position of strength, as the optics of his season suggests he's an aging veteran in decline: He has scored only two Top 5 and five Top 10 finishes this season, has led a career-low four laps, and enters Sunday's finale a career-low 28th in the standings.
In addition, Newman has not won a race since Interestingly, he expressed reservations about racing NASCAR's Next Gen car due to concerns about its safety, believing it to be stiffer than the current Cup car and knowing the new Goodyear tires developed for the car do not feature an inner-liner. Newman has long been an outspoken driver safety advocate, a stance strengthened by his surviving a horrific accident at the finish of the Daytona The car was crash-tested; never saw the first thing about it.
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