Just as in baseball, last night's blog got rained out. Thus, we are going to have two blog posts today.
Number 22: The Ryan Newman ABC schedule runs through Kentucky. Ryan Newman, one of my, if not my biggest, favorites, came into the Cup series with a decorated unorthodox racing background. He graduated from Purdue with a degree in engineering as most of the other racers barely make it out of high school because they skip too many classes because of driving fast and turning left.
As a young unpolished driver, Newman caught Roger Penske's eye and Penske decided the best way to get Newman ready for the Cup series was to race him in a mixture of Arca, Busch (now Nationwide), and Cup races. The ABC schedule. This schedule opened up for Ryan to race the Arca race at Kentucky in August of 2000. Newman came in and dominated the field. His car was so much faster it wasn't really even fair.
Newman returns to Kentucky batting a thousand and looks to take the checkers again.
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