Newman Out of the 4, Into the 39

August 19th, 2008

Tony Stewart chose the number 14 for his new race team because it’s the number his hero A.J. Foyt drove.  Last night he announced on his Siruius Satellite Radio show that Ryan Newman will be driving the 39 car, rather than the 4 car.

Newman who was originally scheduled to drive the 4, Stewarts number when he first began racing, will be running the number that he was running when he won his first USAC Midget race.  Tony said that the number was special to Newman, while the 4 will remain available to Morgan-McClure Motorsports should they return to the Sprint Cup next year.

Morgan-McClure Motorsports has run the #4 since 1983, winning the Daytona 500 three times, and picking up 14 total wins. Some of the drivers that have piloted the #4 for MMM are Ernie Irvan (7 wins), Sterling Marlin (6 wins),  Bobby Hamilton (1 win).  Although they are not running in the Sprint Cup this year, they have expressed that they intend to run at NASCAR’s top level in 2009.

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2 Responses to “Newman Out of the 4, Into the 39”

  1. Ryan Newman Fan
    August 20th, 2008 at 11:18 am

    4 and 14 sound better to me.

    But hey, the 39 is not bad either. In fact it is a pretty “unused” number that Ryan Newman and Stewart-HAAS Racing could really make something of.

  2. John
    August 20th, 2008 at 11:41 am

    I agree. Ryan will definitely be able to make some history with the 39. It hasn’t been used much in the past so he’ll be able to add a lot of history.

    I’m working on story about the history of the 39 that should be up tomorrow.

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