The Dominoes Are Now Starting To Fall a Little Faster
Submitted by NASCAR Ranting and Raving Blog
Now that Mark Martin and Tony Stewart have made their plans for next year public the driver dominoes are starting to fall a little faster.
Ryan Newman, the driver of the Penske South Racing #12 machine, has officially announced his free agency in the NASCAR driver market.
It has been greatly speculated that Newman will be the second driver, and running mate to Tony Stewart, at the newly formed Stewart/Hass Racing next year.
Newman brings an uncanny ability to run fast during qualifying, thus earning him the nickname of ‘Rocketman’ and if he signs with Stewart/Haas Racing he’ll need that because as of right now the existing cars of that team are sitting out of the top 35 and must make each race on speed.
Newman is also very marketable and can bring with him several potential sponsors as well as suitable employees.
Let’s face it, Newman would be stupid not to consider the possibility of driving at Stewart/Haas next year and you just might find him there too, but consider this for a minute: why wouldn’t Newman drive for Richard Childress Racing in their newly formed and already sponsored number 33 car? Newman is the perfect face for sponsor General Mills.
We’ll just have to wait and see, but I expect most of this ‘Silly Season’ stuff to be over within the next few weeks.
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July 17th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Stewart and Newman would make for an interesting combination. I admit, I like both possibilities.
What do you think of Joey Logano?
July 27th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Logano is good, but I don’t think he is ready for Cup just yet.