Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Ryan Newman and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Welcome to Indianapolis Motor Speedway located in Indianapolis, IN.

Ryan Newman and his Penske Racing #12 Alltel Dodge will be racing here this weekend in the Allstate 400 .

Indianapolis Motor Speedway


***Location : Indianapolis, IN
***Completed : 1909
***Distance : 2.5 miles
***Shape : Oval
***Seating : 250,000+


***Nextel Cup Top Race Speed : 155.912 by Bobby Labonte on 8/5/2000
***Nextel Cup Top Qualifying Speed : 186.293 by Casey Mears on 8/7/2004


MANUFATURER WINS AT Indianapolis Motor Speedway SINCE 2002
DODGE = 1
FORD = 0
CHEVROLET = 4


RYAN NEWMAN'S STATS AT Indianapolis Motor Speedway



Ryan Newman's Stats
At Indianapolis Motor SpeedwayAt Intermediate Tracks
STARTS6135
POLES0NA
WINS011
TOP 5141
TOP 10159
AVG START5.58.1
AVG FINISH20.717
LAPS COMP951NA
% COMP-0.9896NA
LAPS LED14NA
TOTAL $$$1046956NA


-- Crew chief Mike Nelson and the Alltel team are taking chassis PRS-069 to Indianapolis as its primary car. The car hasn't been on the track since April 2006 when it was used at Martinsville Speedway. Newman qualified fourth and finished 18th in that event. The backup car is PRS-104. It was last used at Pocono in June. For that race, Newman started on the pole ¿ his third straight and his fourth of the season ¿ and finished second in the rain-shortened event.

Ryan Newman on Indianapolis: "Indianapolis is one of the biggest races of the year for Cup drivers. It ranks right up there with Daytona and Charlotte. Being from Indiana, it would be nice to get a win at the Brickyard. It¿s also getting down to the wire for the Chase and this Alltel Dodge team is so close. We¿ve had some good runs and we¿ve been making up a lot of ground in the last couple of weeks. We just need to put together seven more solid races to make it in this year. I fully believe that this team can do it. We¿ve had some time to relax and now we¿re ready to get back to racing.


Good luck to Ryan Newman and the Penske Racing's #12 Alltel Dodge NASCAR Nextel Cup Team at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the Allstate 400 this coming week and weekend!!!


Mike Pratt

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

To add what you were saying- I got a great insider's look to Ryan's thought on being an Indiana native and the race at IMS on his podcast on www.alltelracing.com.

Its pretty cool to think a native has a good chance of winning this race...its about time Ryan pulled into VL!!