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David NewtonBlog | Chats | E-mailDavid Newton covers motorsports for ESPN.com after a career covering the NFL, college athletics and NASCAR. Newton spent the past year breaking stories and serving as a lead writer for NASCAR.com. He previously covered NASCAR and the Carolina Panthers for South Carolina's largest newspaper, The State, in Columbia. He has also served as a correspondent for Sports Illustrated, covered seven Super Bowls, dozens of college bowl games and every major race on the NASCAR circuit. |
Post-Chase odds and ends
Ryan McGee...2001 Jimmie Johnson 4 2006-09 Darrell Waltrip 3 1981-82, 85 Cale Yarborough 3 1976-78 David Pearson 3 1966, 68-69 Lee Petty 3 1954, 58-59 Hail To The Chiefs Jimmie Johnson...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 23, 2009
Junior Nation makes some noise
Ryan McGee...transmission during Saturday night's race, leading to yet another brutal finish. That was followed by David Newton's Wednesday story that included comments from another former crew chief, Tony Gibson. Among Gibson's...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 22, 2009
Pearson swallows a bitter pill
Ryan McGee...Center. "Looks like today it was David Pearson, don't it?" Pearson told ESPN.com's David Newton that he knew he was out the instant that Bill France Jr.'s name was read...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 15, 2009
Danica's still NASCAR's biggest prize
Ryan McGee...Nationwide* May 30 Indianapolis IRL * I hadn't thought of this until my ESPN.com colleague David Newton talked about it with Lowe's Motor Speedway president Marcus Smith on Tuesday. In the days...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 08, 2009
Junior: Credit DEI crew
David NewtonLAS VEGAS, Nev. -- From when he first met Jeff Gordon to what it meant to win the 2004 Daytona 500 to what it was like living with his dad before he w...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 28, 2008
Camels, T-shirts and cops
David NewtonCONCORD, N.C. -- Wednesday's visit to Hendrick Motorsports was by far the most bizarre in three days of the Sprint Cup media tour. It began with a lo...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 23, 2008
Kurt Busch's garage stall haul
David NewtonDAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- At the far end of the garage at Daytona International Speedway -- where next month obscure Sprint Cup teams fighting for a spot...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 07, 2008
A special hat for a special son
David NewtonCONCORD, N.C. -- Kyle Petty hopped on the trunk of his No. 45 Sprint Cup car during a recent commercial shoot and began telling a story about his hat....
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 18, 2007
Helicopters and Penske's plans
David NewtonAVONDALE, Ariz. -- "Oh, s---!" came a voice from the back of the helicopter. That was the reaction from a fellow reporter who realized I was in th...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 11, 2007
Don't pity Chevrolet
David NewtonHUNTERSVILLE, N.C. -- Poor Chevrolet. The manufacturer lost its second-best organization -- and some might say the best with three titles in the 2000...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 06, 2007
Three-wide racin' at Bristol?
David NewtonCONCORD, N.C. -- Jeff Gordon looked at the television screen during a lull between picks in Wednesday night's Fantasy Football League draft in a suite...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 23, 2007
Sexy NASCAR stars snubbed?
David Newton...a sport where men take their shirts off to practice, so he gets exposure. But Galaxy midfielder David Beckham? A soccer player? Where's the justice? This has to go back to the whole drivers...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 17, 2007
Want a chunk of Darlington?
David Newton...worthwhile deal even though this won't exactly be pieces of the surface that Cale Yarborough and David Pearson helped make famous. The track was repaved in 1995. But there's still a lot of...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 16, 2007
Kennedy will be missed by many
David NewtonJOLIET, Ill. -- Dr. Bruce Kennedy didn't have a title in NASCAR and he wasn't somebody that stood out in the garage on race weekends like this one at ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 15, 2007
Joe Gibbs the mediator?
David NewtonJOILIET, Ill. -- Joe Gibbs isn't often seen at the track on Saturdays, but he certainly seemed to be on a mission at Chicagoland Speedway. The owner ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 15, 2007
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