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The Subway Fresh Fit 500 at Phoenix International Raceway on Saturday will be Ryan Newman's 10th Cup series start at the 1-mile track in Avondale, Ariz. It is Newman's 196th start in NASCAR's top series.
Newman's average start at PIR is 8.4, while his average finish is 20.4.
In nine races, Newman has three consecutive poles – 2002-2004 – and a career-best, second-place finish in November 2004. Newman has six top-10 starts and two top-five finishes.
Newman has completed 2,524 laps of a possible 2,811, giving him an 89.7 percent completion rate. He has led three races for 114 laps.
Chassis PRS-513 is a new COT car. It was tested earlier this month at Richmond International Raceway. That is the only track time the car has seen.
Chassis PRS-509 is the back-up car for Phoenix. This car has been the backup for both of the two previous COT races, but it was not used. This car was also tested at Richmond.
Ryan Newman on Phoenix: "We've done well in qualifying at Phoenix, but we need to translate that into better finishes. We'll be back to the COT cars in Phoenix and this team has been working hard to figure out this new car and how it works. We haven't had bad runs in this car, but we got caught up in an accident at Bristol and we had the spin during qualifying in Martinsville, so we'll be looking to have better runs in Phoenix this weekend."
Chassis
PRS-513: This is a brand new COT car.
This car was tested earlier this month at Richmond International Raceway. That is the only track time the car has seen.
PRS-509 will be the back-up car for Phoenix.
This car has been the back-up car for both of the previous COT races, but was not used. This car also tested at Richmond.
