Newman Rights Ship By Finishing Seventh at Bristol

      A yeoman’s effort by Ryan Newman and his Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) team afforded Newman a seventh-place finish in the Food City 500 on Sunday at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway, his second top-10 showing in the first four races of the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. From the drop of the green flag, Newman struggled with handling woes that would challenge his ability to make forward progress in the Haas Automation Chevrolet. A tight-handling racecar throughout the first half of the race saw Newman struggle at both ends of the high-banked speedway and limited his ability to move to the front of the pack. Crew chief Matt Borland called for adjustments on every pit stop, making air pressure, wedge and track bar adjustments, eventually dialing the handling toward Newman’s liking. Newman spent much of the final 100 laps of the event running inside the top-10. When the caution flag waved for the final time on lap 456, Borland and Newman agreed to come to pit road for one final a...