David Newton

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David 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.

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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...

ESPN Insider 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...

ESPN Insider 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...

ESPN Insider 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...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | October 08, 2009