Race 2 Win: Busch Series Race Notes

NASCAR Busch Series

Camping World 300 - Ryan Newman Notes

Ryan Newman:
California/Camping World 300

NBS

Newman, driver of the No. 12 Kodak Charger, will make his second Busch Series start at California Speedway and his 37th in the series Saturday in the Camping World 300 presented by RVs.com.

In Newman’s only Busch start at California, he started second and finished second. He led 15 laps in that event and completed 150 laps of a possible 150, giving him a 100 percent completion rate.

In addition to California, Newman will compete in the Richmond Busch race next week in the No. 12 Kodak Dodge. Those are his final Busch Series races this year.

Crew chief Matt Gimbel and the No. 12 Kodak Dodge Charger Busch team will take chassis PBC-013, which is a new car. The back-up car is PBC-007, which raced in Las Vegas and Texas earlier this year with Kurt Busch at the wheel and in Richmond by Sam Hornish Jr.

Newman on California: Our only other Busch race at California went really well. We qualified second and finished second and it was a great effort by our team. Last weekend, in Bristol, we had a great time and we tried a strategy that almost got us a win, but we just didn’t have enough left at the end. We were racing for the win, not points, and it was a great time. I had a lot of fun and I look forward to doing the same thing this weekend in California.”