Ryan Newman Finishes 2nd In Midget Race, Does Not Finish In Whelen Modified
Submitted by Ryan Newman News and Information
Ryan Newman finished 2nd in his first Winged-Midget race on Friday night in the Northeast Midget Association (NEMA) race at Lee Speedway in Lee, N.H.
Newman was racing in the #39 (how fitting) Helping Hands of America/Hot Pepper Promotions car.
Newman led 25 laps of the race but at the end he could not hold of his hard charging Bertrand Motorsports teammate, Randy Cabral.
“We were probably one adjustment away from winning the race tonight,” Newman said. “We just didn’t have the car quite right. I had my hands full there at the end of the race. I was just trying to do everything that I could, but I couldn’t catch up to Randy. I have to thank Tim Bertrand and everyone over there for letting me race the car, and I want to congratulate them on finishing one-two tonight. I really had a lot of fun tonight,” Newman said. “It’s cool to go out to these tracks like Lee, race in the different cars and see the fans.”
Newman, who grew up racing Quarter-Midgets and Midgets, in the Midwest before making the jump to stock cars and the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, but Friday day night was the first time he had piloted a Winged-Midget.
WHELEN MODIFIED
Today Ryan Newman raced in the Whelen Modified race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in the New England 100.
While I don’t have a lot of the details about Newman’s performance, I know he finished 34th. Newmanl ed 13 laps and swapped the lead back-and-forth with Szegedy in the early going but Newman packed it up after a spinning out on lap 64.
Ryan Newman started 6th in the #7 Aggressive Hydraulics Chevrolet.
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