About Ryan Newman

Birthdate: December 8, 1977
Birthplace: South Bend, Ind.
Residence: Statesville, N.C.
Education: Purdue University – Class of 2001 (A.B. – Vehicle Structure Engineering)

Ryan Newman, winner of the 2008 Daytona 500, is not your ordinary NASCAR driver. A graduate of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., Newman not only has immense talent behind the wheel, but he also has an in-depth understanding of what a car is designed and built to do on the racetrack. It is that combination that has made Newman one of the most successful and respected figures in modern motorsports.

About Stewart-Haas Racing

Stewart-Haas Racing is the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team co-owned by two-time Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart and Haas Automation, the largest CNC machine tool builder in the western world. The team fields two entries in the elite Sprint Cup Series – the No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet Impala SS for Stewart and the No. 39 U.S. Army/Haas Automation Chevrolet Impala SS for 2008 Daytona 500 winner Ryan Newman. Based in Kannapolis, N.C., Stewart-Haas Racing operates out of a 140,000-square-foot facility with more than 150 employees.

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