2014 NASCAR Driver Review: Ryan Newman
Ryan Newman used his version of the old adage “to win some, you have to lose some” to put a positive spin on a runner-up finish in the championship round at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Ryan Newman used his version of the old adage “to win some, you have to lose some” to put a positive spin on a runner-up finish in the championship round at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
It took 13 years and one promise later for Kevin Harvick to reach the summit of his sport in capturing his first Sprint Cup Series championship.
With just a handful of laps to run, Denny Hamlin was out front of the pack at Homestead-Miami Speedway under green and headed toward a maiden championship.
In a win-or-be-eliminated scenario at Talladega, Brad Keselowski extended his championship run by outmuscling the competition in the final laps for his sixth victory of the season.
Joey Logano’s season was littered with high points, from his electrifying last-lap pass to win the spring Texas race all the way through to his Chase victory at Kansas in the fall that locked him into the Eliminator Round.
Jeff Gordon won the inaugural Brickyard 400 in 1994 in his home state of Indiana. 20 years later he joined Michael Schumacher as the only drivers to win five times at Indianapolis.
Carl Edwards visited victory lane twice in 2014, but it was his road-course win ahead of a hard-charging Jeff Gordon at Sonoma that seemed to be his shining moment for the year.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. scored a second win in the Daytona 500 and spent as much time at the front of the pack as he did in 2004 when he was last considered a threat to win the championship.
It’s difficult to find one particular bright spot in what was a consistent, yet unspectacular season for Matt Kenseth.
Kyle Busch suffered yet again a missed opportunity to run up front as the Chase for the Sprint Cup lingered on into the Eliminator Round.
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