ROUGEMONT, N.C. — Ryan Newman has 18 victories and 733 begins within the NASCAR Cup Sequence, however he could have collected one in all his most thrilling victories Saturday at Orange County Speedway.
Newman used a three-wide cross for the result in win the Rumble in Rougemont for the SMART Modified Tour on the three-eighths-mile race monitor.
“I went into flip three third and was main on the start-finish line three large,” Newman defined after the race. “I used to be fairly happy with myself at that time and it was essential as a result of the following lap the yellow got here out and we reverted again to the final lap, which made us the chief and gave us management of the restart.”
It was Newman’s first victory within the collection.
“Good workforce effort with Randy Renfrow and Coulter Motorsports,” Newman stated. “Grateful for a hard-fought win as a result of we now have struggled to begin the season.”
Newman discovered Orange County Speedway to his liking in an occasion that featured loads of side-by-side racing.
“Most of it is because of the truth that the groove is in the course of the race monitor,” Newman defined. “You’ve room to stand up, you might have room to do slide jobs, you might have room to run aspect by aspect. It has a number of character. It has grass developing by the cracks. It has patches the place you will get a bit of additional grip. It’s all that stuff that I like. It jogs my memory a number of IRP, the place you don’t run up subsequent to the wall and also you don’t run down low, however you may if you wish to. It’s only a actually good race monitor.”
Newman, 47, held off teenager Paulie Hartwig III on a late restart en path to victory.
“I didn’t need to get beat by an eighth grader on the final restart,” stated Newman. “There’s nothing fallacious with that I used to be overwhelmed by Carson Loftin a couple of instances final 12 months and he was 15.”
