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Ryan Newman met with the media via teleconference Thursday and discussed his Daytona accident as well as this week\u2019s return to racing:<\/p>\n
RYAN NEWMAN, No. 6 Oscar Mayer Ford Mustang \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>“I\u2019m happy to see you all in the capacity that I can after everything that happened in Daytona. I feel very blessed and fortunate as I think you\u2019ve read or heard me say several times to be able to talk to you guys and get the opportunity to return to my race car seat \u2013 not just any seat but my race car seat and Darlington of all places, being my favorite race track, so I look forward to getting down there on Sunday and having an expedited weekend, I guess you could say, and the opportunity to get sports back rolling again when it comes to NASCAR.”<\/p>\n AS YOU COME BACK WITH EVERYTHING BEING THROWN AT YOU, IS THERE A LOT MORE FOR YOU TO DIGEST? “I know it\u2019s different and I guess it\u2019s got some complexities to it, but, in the end, we wouldn\u2019t be doing it if we didn\u2019t think we were capable of it, so that\u2019s a combination of everything. That\u2019s a combination of going to the race track with no practice, no qualifying; the situation that we have with the virus and making sure that we\u2019re staying healthy and keeping our distance; being socially acceptable in doing so. It\u2019s all manageable, it\u2019s just going to be different. But the reality is once we get the green flag to drop, aside from a mandatory caution, it\u2019s gonna be racing and racing as the fans have always enjoyed it and hopefully we can set a standard that allows everybody, including the fans, to enjoy the race and have fun.”<\/p>\n JACK SAID YOU WERE GOING TO BE LIKE A 16-YEAR-OLD THAT JUST GOT HIS DRIVER\u2019S LICENSE. IS THAT TRUE? “I\u2019m like that every day.”<\/p>\n WHAT HAPPENED INSIDE THE CAR TO ALLOW YOU TO SURVIVE? “I think you can pay a lot of attribution to the safety of the race car, the safety of my helmet, my equipment. They always say things happen for a reason and this year was the year. It\u2019s only the fourth race I had on a brand new style of helmet \u2013 it\u2019s a carbon fiber zero helmet that I was wearing \u2013 the second time I\u2019d worn it in Cup competition. Everything aligned in so many ways. The safety workers, the personnel that were involved, that were inside the car with me, spent time with me during and after the crash, every layer of it there was multiple miracles \u2013 big miracles and little miracles, in my opinion \u2013 that aligned for me to be able to walk out days later with my hands around my daughters and to be thankful, so I can\u2019t answer all of those things and I don\u2019t think anybody can when miracles do happen, but we need to be thankful for that \u2013 at least I am \u2013 and I\u2019m just proud of how everybody has united in the past say 20 years that I\u2019ve been involved in this sport to make the tracks safer, the walls safer, the cockpit safer, the seat safer \u2013 all the work that has gone into that collectively, not just the NASCAR world, but everybody. People in sprint car racing, people in IndyCar racing \u2013 I am the net result or at least I feel like I am. It\u2019s not just a Newman bar, it\u2019s not just a Petty bar or an Earnhardt bar, it\u2019s the net effort of everybody in auto racing that, I think, contributed up to that day.”<\/p>\n FROM A MEDICAL STANDPOINT DO YOU KNOW HOW TOUCH AND GO IT WAS THAT YOU WOULD LIVE? “I had no idea. I was medically treated to not know. They were trying to keep me in a somewhat of a medically-induced coma from what I\u2019ve been told, and that medicine kind of zoned me out, so I really don\u2019t have any memories or recollection of any of my crash until I actually had my arms around my daughters walking out of the hospital. Again, when they give you those medicines and you\u2019re knocked out, you don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. I was able to walk out in the condition that I was and as I watched in the next call it 24 hours, as I watched the crash and had to make myself believe what I had went through, I really looked to my dad to say, \u2018Hey, did this really happen?\u2019 Like it was kind of there\u2019s no d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu when there\u2019s no deja. It was just kind of like, \u2018All right, I believe you.\u2019 It\u2019s crazy. I\u2019m happy I\u2019m here.”<\/p>\n DID YOU ASK? DID THEY DO ANY MEDICAL PROCEDURES BESIDES A MEDICALLY-INDUCED COMA? “No, I had nothing that was wrong with me. I guess they put a pick line in my shoulder, which I\u2019m not really sure exactly what all that was for, and medically I was just treated so that I could be calm so that they would kind of numb my brain, so to speak, so that I could just sit there and rest. I wouldn\u2019t call it a vegetative state, but I wasn\u2019t a fruit either (laughing). I was meant to be relaxed.”<\/p>\n WHAT WAS YOUR DARLINGTON TEST LIKE WHEN YOU WENT THERE? “We went down and did about 30 laps total at speed. We did two five-lap runs and then kind of checked the tires out and then put another set of tires on for a 20-lap run and wanted to see how I felt in the car. I had no apprehensions getting in the car. I was excited to get in the car. It\u2019s my favorite race track and just really wanted to get back in it and at it. I\u2019ve been working really hard to do the things that I needed to do test-wise to pass my concussion test and protocol and things like that, so I could be down there with my team and Dr. Petty to establish the fact that I felt well and could prove it and I was well behind the seat of the race car, so I basically did that. The track was really green and was really fast. My first five laps of my 20-lap run were quicker than the pole-winning car from last fall, so I can handle the speed. There\u2019s no issue with that, just wanted to kind of get that behind me and Darlington being kind of close to home and away from a little bit of everything else, for me, was no different than how Dale Jr. did it. You take an opportunity to go down and shake things down and make sure that everything is connected.”<\/p>\n IN WHAT WAYS MIGHT RELATIONSHIPS WITH COMPETITORS CHANGED, AND WILL THOSE RELATIONSHIP IMPACT HOW YOU MIGHT RACE OTHERS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER? “I guess I brought Matt Kenseth out of retirement. He\u2019s so excited to race against me he decided to come back and race again. In all actuality, I\u2019m just really excited to get back at it. I got lots of great texts and phone calls and connections from other drivers and other crew members and personnel that are from the race track and even away from the race track. The amount of texts and communication that I got, it\u2019s not a joking matter, but it\u2019s like being at somebody\u2019s wake, but you live through it. It\u2019s like being there, but your being that person and being able to connect with the people that wanted to connect with you. When you go to a wake and you can\u2019t typically connect with that person, you can only connect with the family. I felt like that, and I look forward to getting back on the race track and kind of putting it all behind me, but at the same time, like I said, to be thankful for what I\u2019ve experienced.”<\/p>\n WHAT CHALLENGES DO RACING WITH NO PRACTICE OR QUALIFYING PRESENT? “It\u2019s the same thing that we do when we get there. We unload and we try to go fast our first laps of practice. The difference is these laps or practice are actually race laps and they mean something and over 400 miles they add up. I don\u2019t see it as a huge challenge. It is definitely going to be a challenge. You don\u2019t want to be the first guy to be smashing your splitter going into turn one at Darlington when you\u2019re gonna enter the corner with somebody outside of you. You just don\u2019t know those things, so you just have to think about it, no different than you would if you were in practice. When you enter right next to the wall, let\u2019s just say at a place like Homestead, you enter right next to the wall you don\u2019t do it on your first lap, but you will at some point and you have to make sure you have the confidence. You have to work your way into that level of confidence and we\u2019ll have plenty of laps in Darlington to do that on Sunday.”<\/p>\n YOU SAID YOU HAD A BRUISED BRAIN, BUT WHAT WAS THE OFFICIAL DIAGNOSIS? “I can self-diagnose myself, right? There was a little bit of confusion. I\u2019ve had doctors tell me that I had a concussion and then I\u2019ve talked to other doctors that said I didn\u2019t have a concussion, then I went back and talked to the same doctor that said I had a concussion and he says, \u2018No, you didn\u2019t really have a concussion, what you had was this.\u2019 That\u2019s why I kind of put it in layman\u2019s terms of having a bruised brain because everybody knows what a bruise is. You can\u2019t see a concussion. It\u2019s just a medical diagnosis, but a bruise you can see and the part of your brain or the fact that my brain was injured, I guess, in this accident to the point that it knocked me out and I don\u2019t remember the actual parts of the accident that day, tells me that something happened. So I kind of self-diagnosed myself with that bruised brain because the reality is you need to give time for a bruise to heal and that\u2019s what I needed was time for my brain to heal. I\u2019ve really felt completely normal since, I guess in the last eight weeks no problem, no question. That doesn\u2019t mean that I was and that\u2019s why when it comes time to having a bruise heal, especially one you can\u2019t see, you have to be extra careful.”<\/p>\n WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER FROM THOSE FINAL MOMENTS? “I think that\u2019s the part, for me, that makes me feel how special it really was \u2013 the miracle part of it \u2013 because I don\u2019t remember anything about being in the hospital. I couldn\u2019t tell you who came to visit me. I couldn\u2019t tell you who was in the room, but I do remember putting my arms around my daughter\u2019s chests and walking out and holding their hands as I did that, and that tells me that God was involved. That tells me that I was blessed in more ways than one, and makes me so thankful for what I went through and being able to have the people around me that I love and trust afterwards. I don\u2019t even know how to describe it more than that. I feel like a complete walking miracle.”<\/p>\n WHEN YOU DID THE TEST AT DARLINGTON WAS THERE ANY NERVOUSNESS, AND HAS DOING THAT TEST EASED YOUR NERVES COMING BACK TO RACING? “I actually felt just the opposite. I was so excited and ready to go and just kind of prove myself that I actually had to slow myself down and make sure that I didn\u2019t go out there and fence it on the first lap by trying too hard. So I never felt like I had to be apprehensive towards it, other than the fact that I wanted to make sure that I didn\u2019t mess up my own test. I was there to prove that I was valid in the seat again, and that made it a bit of a challenge for me personally because it is my favorite race track and when the track is green like that you just want to go haul the mail, and I had to slow myself down for a few laps, like I said, and everything was good. It\u2019ll be a little bit of that again when we go back on Sunday, but I\u2019ll have 39 other cars around me and somebody to kind of gauge off of, too.”<\/p>\n DO YOU EXPECT TO RUN EVERY LAP? NO BACKUP? “I\u2019m hoping to do every lap and then one more after that. I think they are having a victory lap still. I was ready to do that in Daytona.”<\/p>\n WHEN THE CRASH STARTED DID YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC THOUGHT, AND HOW EXCITED ARE YOU TO GET BACK AND BE ONE OF THE FIRST SPORTS TO START AGAIN? “I don\u2019t remember any part of the lights out in the crash. I really don\u2019t know how much of that was the crash, the impact, part of whatever I had for an injury or just the medication that went along with it. Again, I was kind of hung upside-down in the car. I know that I was fighting the medical crew there for a little while and they kind of helped me out in more ways than one, but I really don\u2019t have any recollection of the last lap and everything after that until I walked out of the hospital with my daughters. Yes, I am excited. I\u2019m super-excited, not just for myself but for our sport. I think our sport will hopefully lead by example of how to get the world, if not the United States, back on track and enjoy some of the things that we love and give people some of that normalcy back that we haven\u2019t had for a couple months.”<\/p>\n HAVE YOU WATCHED THE ENTIRE DAYTONA RACE? IS THERE A LEVEL OF DISAPPOINTMENT WITH HOW IT ENDED? “I have not watched the entire race. I\u2019ve actually kind of been saving that for a moment that will be a little bit later in time here because I don\u2019t remember the majority of the race. I am still disappointed in the fact that I have seen the replays and know that I was that close to a second Daytona 500 victory, but that\u2019s just the way it works. I\u2019ve always said in this sport when you win a race one way, you will eventually lose a race that way, and I lost a race that way, so hopefully some day I can win a race that way. It\u2019s kind of like the what comes around goes around and everything has a cycle, I\u2019ve experienced that with rain-shortened races and winning them and losing them, so to speak, and I think that\u2019s just a part of what racing is.”<\/p>\n WHY IS DARLINGTON YOUR FAVORITE TRACK? “I just like it because you run right up next to the fence. It\u2019s unique on both ends, very challenging. It\u2019s just a lot of fun to actually hustle the car around there.”<\/p>\n THERE WAS SOME TALK ABOUT RULE CHANGES AT DAYTONA AND TALLADEGA. HOW MUCH INPUT DID YOU HAVE TO THOSE CHANGES AND ARE THERE ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE? “If you\u2019ve been a part of our sport for the last 10 years you know that I\u2019ve been a big advocate for keeping the race cars on the ground. I would love to take all the credit, but I don\u2019t deserve all the credit when it comes to things from the past like the Newman bar. That was NASCAR\u2019s development over a crash that I had, I believe it was in Talladega in 2009, \u201910 or \u201911 \u2013 something like that \u2013 when I flipped and landed upside-down and my cage crushed a significant amount. They realized that they needed to make an improvement and they made it and they called it the Newman bar. I was literally just the crash test dummy that lived through it, but I also did have some input, and I\u2019ve had some input post 2020 Daytona 500 \u2013 not a lot, but, again, they have talked to me about some things, they\u2019ve worked with the team at Roush Fenway Racing to help devise some new things with the race car \u2013 big things like chassis structure, little things like window net safety \u2013 commonizing some things to make them safer for everybody. We\u2019ve always had a degree of freedom with certain things on the race car, but when it comes to safety NASCAR has made us realize that there is a standard that needs to be followed and that\u2019s just an example of one of the things that we learned from my Daytona crash was my window net was secured, but it was not secured correctly to the point that it was still latched, but it was not ready for the next shot, so to speak. Things like that, that have been a part of what we have done post-Daytona 500 that will continue on to make NASCAR safer and hopefully other sports safer for the same reason.”<\/p>\n DOES IT MEAN MORE TO YOU TO HONOR FIRST RESPONDERS THIS WEEKEND AFTER WHAT THEY DID FOR YOU, AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR NASCAR TO TAKE CENTER STAGE THIS WEEKEND? “I definitely learned a different perspective for first responders, but I\u2019ve learned a different perspective for lots of people. As a parent, and this is not to take away from first responders, but as a parent who is trying to teach a second and third-grader with all this stuff going on that I\u2019ve learned a great appreciation for teachers as well. I\u2019m just proud to be in this position that I am and be able to give thanks to the people that in so many ways help us, not just this weekend with the first responders that go along with the virus and the pandemic that\u2019s been a part of our world, but obviously as we get to Memorial Day Weekend with the soldiers that we pay tribute to \u2013 past, present and future \u2013 that give us the freedom in our country. So several different layers of faithfulness and thankfulness that NASCAR has always been proud to represent and a standard of leading a lot of those things compared to other sports. I look forward to having some names outside of mine on my race car in multiple ways and multiple times as we pay tribute to many people who make a difference in our world.”<\/p>\n HOW GREAT IS IT FOR NASCAR TO BE FRONT AND CENTER RIGHT NOW? “I think that it\u2019s great the way the industry, the way the people, the teams, the sponsors, the broadcasting partners, the sanctioning body has all grouped together to make this their play, so to speak. Sunday at Darlington is going to be a huge opportunity for us to connect to millions of people in ways that maybe we haven\u2019t had since 1979 when we had a snowstorm on the east coast. I think it\u2019s just a big opportunity and we\u2019re all gonna work really hard to make the best of it just as we do each and every day, but this is a unique opportunity for us to shine and, for me personally, to get back on the horse at the same time.”<\/p>\n DARLINGTON IS NOW THE EPICENTER OF NASCAR. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO YOU? “I think it\u2019s a great opportunity for Darlington, for the fans. We knew it was kind of close to home and, like I said, it is one of my favorite race tracks, if not my favorite race track. I\u2019ve always equated my favorite all-time race track, Winchester Speedway, to Darlington being the closest thing to Darlington in the Cup Series. I have liked it for many reasons, as you said as well, the history of our sport. There was a point in time where we decided to step away from Darlington and this is an opportunity to kind of come back and give it another shot in a different way, but all for the right reasons.”<\/p>\n WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE WITHOUT FANS? “When you\u2019re running 200 miles an hour you can\u2019t look in the stands anyway. I am aware of the current situation and I feel bad for the fans that they can\u2019t be there, but from a driver\u2019s perspective, until you\u2019re doing burnouts or donuts in victory lane, you don\u2019t have \u2013 or at least I don\u2019t have \u2013 a mentality or picture of fans or no fans in the grandstands. I wish that they were there. I completely do. That\u2019s a topic all in itself, but at the same time it\u2019s an opportunity for us to connect to the people that are doing the right thing of being socially distant, staying at home and watching the race on TV and I\u2019m sure that the broadcast partners are all teed up and ready to do the best job that they can to make sure that they give the best broadcast that they possibly can to those fans.”<\/p>\n YOU HAVE A LOT OF DIFFERENT HOBBIES AND RESPONSBILITIES. CAN YOU DISTILL WHAT IS SO COMPELLING ABOUT BEING BEHIND THE WHEEL THAT YOU HAVE TO BE THERE ON SUNDAY? “I\u2019ve got a list of opportunities outside of racing and I\u2019m happy that I\u2019ve been able to spend some time with my daughters. For anybody like you that has paid attention, we\u2019re getting really close on the Bill Elliott model I was working on a month-and-a-half ago, so hopefully we can get that all done before Darlington as well. But, yeah, I enjoy the outdoor life. I enjoy farming. I enjoy the cows, the buffalo. Last year we had three buffalo calves, so that keeps me busy just keeping an eye on them and making sure they stay inside the fence, but I really just enjoy racing. I\u2019ve been a race fan all my life. My dad got me started racing quarter midgets when I was four-and-a-half and if you can remember before you were four-and-a-half you\u2019re a unique person, so I\u2019m excited about getting back behind the wheel. I have a goal in my life to be a Cup champion and I feel like I\u2019m with a team and have the opportunity to do that. We were really close to proving it and securing ourselves a playoff berth in Daytona, and we have plenty more opportunities to do that before those last 10 races this year, so I\u2019m still riding that wave from the last 20 years, I guess, is the real answer and when that wave hits the beach I\u2019ll figure out what I\u2019m gonna do next.”<\/p>\n DID YOU PICK WHERE YOU DID YOUR TEST, AND WHEN YOU WERE HEALING WERE THERE SPECIAL THERAPIES OR EXERCISES YOU NEEDED TO DO? “I think there was a collective effort, mostly NASCAR, to choose Darlington. I think it was a part of what they had done in the past. Dale Jr, I believe to my knowledge, spent some time down there after his situation a few years ago, so it\u2019s geographically close and gave us an opportunity to kind of step away and do what we needed to do, so it worked out. It was really just time to heal. Going back to the bruise part of my self-assessed situation and condition. I felt great. I acted great. I had no balance problems, no memory problems. I just needed to give it some time to really know that it was healed, at least healed to the best that it could be, and that\u2019s one of the things I\u2019ve suggested, and maybe this isn\u2019t the correct place to talk about it, but just some of the protocols and things that we can do after me living through and experiencing this, what we can do to be more prepared for all race car drivers prior to a race or a season or a career to know what you\u2019re capability is mentally as a person. We all know that changes every day. Some days you\u2019re having good days. Some days you\u2019re having bad days. Some days you can hit nine out of 10 free throws and some days you can\u2019t hit but one, but the reality is there is a baseline that\u2019s out there that we all need to have a really good understanding of and that has an effect on the status of an athlete. I think it\u2019s something we definitely can make smoother as we go forward for everybody.”<\/p>\n DID COREY\u2019S CAR HIT YOUR HELMET AND DO YOU ASSUME THAT\u2019S WHEN THE BRAIN INJURY HAPPENED? “I don\u2019t have anything that is conclusive that says that his car hit my helmet. I do know that parts of the inside of my car hit my helmet and crushed it, so to speak. I don\u2019t have any defined video that I can give you 100 percent answer that says this is exactly the second that this happened, but I see the end result and that my helmet did have contact and my HANS did have contact, and I was being moved backwards in my seat as his car was moving me forward, so I can\u2019t honestly tell you what percentage of that inertia and those physics that went into the actual action of the crash were being driven by his car hitting me or his car hitting my roll bars. It\u2019s not a fair assessment to say, but everything happened really quick and everything was all in that compartment, basically, and I guess it would be like a case of high-quality whiplash that kind of happened when I was hit.”<\/p>\n IS THERE ANY ONE THING IN THE CAR OR THE MEDICAL PERSONNEL DID ON SITE THAT SAVED YOUR LIFE? “I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve had a brief conversation in Phoenix with a couple of people that were in the car \u2013 one that I believe was in the car with me and we talked about having a conversation later and haven\u2019t had that conversation yet. I\u2019m sure that we will, but I do believe that everybody had some kind of impact on keeping me safe. One of my biggest questions in talking with some of the doctors when they were looking at my brain scans was if they can tell that I was without oxygen for any amount of time, and they said based off my scans that it looked like I had no signs of lack of oxygen to my brain, which was a great piece of news and feedback, but, again, I couldn\u2019t tell you if that was because of what they did inside the car, if it was because of how I was hit or the quality of the safety equipment or what. I don\u2019t have all those answers and I don\u2019t think that they\u2019ll ever exist, unless you\u2019re that person and can say, \u2018Yes, I got the piece of ice out of the straw and now he can breathe.\u2019 Unless that comment is there, which I don\u2019t know of, then it was just some crazy actions.”<\/p>\n NINE DAYS AFTER THE INCIDENT YOU WERE AT THE SHOP. WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO SEE THOSE GUYS AGAIN? “It was unique because I had never been to a race shop in that capacity. I literally had just came up from Florida I believe a couple days beforehand and my parents were still kind of chaperoning me, which, at the age of 42 was a unique situation in itself to not be allowed to drive and not have the freedoms a typical 42-year-old man with seven and nine-year-old daughters would have. So I felt blessed to be able to talk to those guys, give them thanks for building me a safe race car, and at the same time tell them I was ready to get back in it and looking forward to it when that time allowed. Everything changed in the couple weeks after that because we didn\u2019t get to go to Atlanta and didn\u2019t get to race, and the world has changed quite a bit, but the reality is it\u2019s gonna reboot itself on Sunday.”<\/p>\n WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT CHARLOTTE? “I want to get through Darlington first. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a bad question, I just haven\u2019t really focused on Charlotte. I want to get through Darlington twice and learn what we need to do with our race cars. I do feel that Darlington and Charlotte are somewhat sister race tracks in which you can apply some similar thoughts and processes there because they do have a lot of bumps and content to make the cars handle well, so I think that I really haven\u2019t personally focused on Charlotte until we get some laps under out belt after Sunday in Darlington, and after Sunday in Darlington we\u2019ll think about Wednesday in Darlington and how that could tie in to Charlotte. That\u2019s just my personal focus as of right now.”<\/p>\n HOW ABOUT TWO RACES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME? “I\u2019ve done several races in several days in a row before, that\u2019s no big deal. I feel like the way the schedule is set, doing the one-day shows, you wouldn\u2019t be doing something that we physically weren\u2019t capable of or asked upon us by everybody that\u2019s involved, and that\u2019s from driving the race car to the hauler drivers and the pit crews and everybody involved. So I think that\u2019s not a big deal. It\u2019s not an easy ask, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s insurmountable.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ryan Newman met with the media via teleconference Thursday and discussed his Daytona accident as well as this week\u2019s return to racing: RYAN NEWMAN, No. 6 Oscar Mayer Ford Mustang \u2013\u00a0“I\u2019m happy to see you all in the capacity that I can after everything that happened in Daytona. 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