NASCAR driver Ryan Newman will move to Roush Fen path Hustling in 2019
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Ryan Newman will keep on steering the No. 31 Richard Childress Chevrolet for whatever remains of the season before moving to the No. 6 Roush Fenway Passage in 2019.(Photo: Sean Gardner, Getty Pictures)
RICHMOND, Va. – Ryan Newman will drive full-time for Roush-Fenway Hustling in the No. 6 Portage next season in NASCAR's Container arrangement.
The group reported the move Saturday at Richmond Raceway, hours before the second race of the playoffs.
Newman has driven the No. 31 for Richard Childress Hustling since 2014, however did not make the playoffs as one of the main 16 groups for the second time in three years. He declared not long ago he would leave the group toward the finish of the season.
"I'm at a position where I've never needed to stop, I've never needed to stop, never needed to resign, and I need to win a title," Newman said.
Newman has won 18 races in his profession, incorporating eight in the 2003 season. He completed second to Kevin Harvick in the 2014 title race.
Newman lauded proprietor Jack Roush's history as an auto proprietor, and said one of the thoughts that pulled in him to the association was "it's an open door for me to enable them to develop their program from where they have been and ideally to where we as a whole need to be, and I imagine that we have both an equivalent chance of doing that."
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Trevor Bayne drove the No. 6 from 2015-17, and split time this season with Matt Kenseth, the 2003 Glass arrangement champion. Kenseth, who won his title with proprietor Roush one year before Roush driver Kurt Busch gave him two of every a line, resigned after last season, yet returned to encourage the battling group.
Bayne has never completed superior to 22nd in the standings for Roush, who additionally handle a group with Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Roush said resigned NASCAR driver Check Martin urged him to convey Kenseth on board to help with the setups of his race autos.
"Despite the fact that the outcomes haven't supported the exertion, we've had more speed in our autos and we have a bearing that will be evident that will improve race autos and better dashing for our fans going ahead," Roush stated, including that he's not sure what Kenseth's job will be with the group going ahead.
Roush and group president Steve Newmark declined to address whether the group has anchored sponsorship for the auto.
"Ryan Newman has been a standout amongst the most wild drivers that we've looked on the race track," Roush said. "Something that a driver must have is a code that bodes well to different drivers. At whatever point you dashed Check, you realized what's in store. At whatever point you dashed Matt, you realized what's in store, and at whatever point you hustled Ryan, you could recognize what's in store too. I anticipate that working to support us.
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