Ryan Newman will make the move to the No. 31 for Richard Childress Racing in 2014. Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images for NASCAR
What began as informal discussions five years ago concluded Monday when Richard Childress Racing announced Ryan Newman will drive its No. 31 Chevrolet in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in 2014.
Effectively a case of dominoes falling, Newman replaces Jeff Burton whose nearly decade-long tenure in the car will end at the conclusion of this season.
Newman became available two months ago when Stewart-Haas Racing announced the contract of the 17-time NASCAR Sprint Cup winner wouldn’t be renewed.
The 35-year-old driver had been mentioned in connection with several other team openings but Newman said Monday that the Childress opportunity made the most sense.
“Richard and everybody at RCR are in a position to control their own destiny,” said Newman, a 50-time series Coors Light Pole winner. “They build their own cars. They build their own engines. They hang their own bodies.
“Everything is at the RCR compound and that means a lot to me because that keeps that information right there and that, I think, is extremely important with the technology of the sport right now.”
SHR, owner of Newman’s current No. 39 Chevrolet gets its chassis and engines from – and shares technology with – Hendrick Motorsports.
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“This is a great opportunity for our team,” said Childress in a team release. Childress was traveling and unable to join Newman and RCR’s Chief Operating Officer Torrey Galida in Monday’s announcement teleconference. “We have high expectations for this No. 31 team. Ryan has proven himself to be a great driver and I’m looking forward to winning races with him.”
Galida said the team’s current sponsor, Caterpillar, will continue to back a majority of next season’s races.
“We do have some work there to get everything finished; sold out,” he said. “We’ve been lucky to have Caterpillar for five years and part of us making this move was to make sure that we kept a very strong relationship with Caterpillar for the long term.”
Newman said he and Childress spoke about the 2014 season during the weeks leading up to the Daytona 500 but neither was certain of what might transpire in the future – especially in the wake of Kevin Harvick’s departure to Stewart-Haas or how many teams RCR might field in 2014.
“It was a no-brainer for me to go back and knock on his door,” said Newman.
Newman debuted in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in 2000 with Roger Penske, joining the team full-time in 2002 as teammate to Rusty Wallace. He joined Stewart-Haas in 2009. Newman three times finished sixth in series championship standings.
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