Prayers for the ‘Rocket Man’
Update: Rocket Man is indestructible!Update: Ryan is awake and speaking with family and doctorsRyan Newman has been treated and released from Halifax Medical Center pic.twitter.com/J0twhGgQm7— Roush Fenway (@roushfenway) February 19, 2020
Update on Ryan Newman: pic.twitter.com/TdJHDZ3O7O— Roush Fenway (@roushfenway) February 18, 2020
Steve Newmark, president of Roush Fenway Racing just updated an anxious NASCAR Nation about the #6 Koch Industries Ford driver’s (Ryan Newman) medical condition. As you can deduce from the tweet below the update was purposefully generically neutral.
— Steve Newmark (@NewmarkRFR) February 18, 2020
What Happened: After being in contention for much of the late stages of the race, Newman took the lead from Denny Hamlin on the final lap, using a bump draft from Ryan Blaney to put himself in position to win the Daytona 500 for the second time. As Blaney got a run off of Turn Four and attempted a race-winning pass, Newman blocked Blaney's advance, resulting in contact between the two cars. Newman's car slammed into the outside wall, flipping over and then being struck on the driver's side by Corey LaJoie's oncoming car. Hamlin won the race; Newman slid past the start-finish on his sparking hood for a ninth place finish.
Newman had to be cut out of his car before being transported directly to nearby Halifax Medical Center, where he remains today.
NASCAR Nation Prays for Newman
— Roush Fenway (@roushfenway) February 18, 2020
What an emotional rollercoaster... in a matter of seconds we went from the excitement of believing we were about to win the #DAYTONA500 to a gut punch of fear and the unknown of our drivers wellbeing...— Travis Peterson (@TRAVIS_P3TERSON) February 18, 2020
We are all standing behind you @RyanJNewman get well soon#PrayForNewman pic.twitter.com/Sw1bJ5vXwG
“I didn’t even know who I hit … Nobody realizes how fast 200 MPH is or how light or how uncontrollable these cars are when they get out of shape.” NASCAR racer @CoreyLaJoie says of the crash involving Ryan Newman. https://t.co/I7ue9xvSRu pic.twitter.com/qxuQNTiJFp— Good Morning America (@GMA) February 18, 2020
— DeLana Harvick (@DeLanaHarvick) February 18, 2020
First a foremost I want to give well wishes and prayers to @RyanJNewman. I had absolutely NO IDEA of the severity of the crash until I got to victory lane. There’s very little communication after the finish and i had already unhooked my radio. It’s not anyone’s fault. 🙏Rocket— Denny Hamlin (@dennyhamlin) February 18, 2020
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