RYAN NEWMAN QUICK FACTS
No. 08 BRANDT/Realtree Chevrolet Silverado
Atlanta Motor Speedway
Atlanta 200
September 2, 2011
No. 08 BRANDT/Realtree Chevrolet News and Notes
. Turner Motorsports to run four trucks in Atlanta… Turner Motorsports will run a fourth entry in this weekend’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) event at Atlanta Motor Speedway (AMS). Ryan Newman will pilot the No. 08 BRANDT/Realtree Chevrolet Silverado honoring the life of former Turner Motorsports family member and Newman’s close friend, Beau Slocumb.
. Remembering and honoring Beau… A native of Macon, Ga., about an hour south of AMS, Slocumb grew up racing. He began his career racing Legends cars and climbed the professional ladder through the late model ranks, eventually making his mark in the ARCA Racing Series, driving the No. 08, before hanging up his driving gloves to work at Turner Motorsports. This past spring, the 26-year-old lost his heroic battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife Jessica, parents Burke “Buster” and Jeanne, brothers Seth and Daniel and sister Maggie.
Turner Motorsports, along with Newman, BRANDT and Realtree have pledged all profits and winnings from the event to be donated to Slocum’s widow.
. Calling the shots… Trent Owens, who serves as crew chief on Turner Motorsports’ No. 32 Dollar General Impala in the Nationwide Series, will call the shots for Newman’s No. 08 at AMS. In 25 NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) events this season (21 with Reed Sorenson/4 with Mark Martin), Owens has collected two wins (1 Martin/1 Sorenson), eight top-five and 18 top-10 finishes.
. Proven ground… Newman knows his way around AMS. In his lone NCWTS start at the 1.54-mile track he went to victory lane. In three NNS starts he has collected one pole award and one top-10 finish. In his 18 Sprint Cup Series starts at the track he has amassed one top-five and six top-10 finishes along with capturing seven pole awards.
. By the numbers: NCWTS… In three career NCWTS starts Newman has never finished outside the top-five. He has collected one win, three top-five finishes and one pole award.
. This week’s Silverado… The No. 08 team will hit the track with chassis TMS-204. This is the same chassis Mark Martin raced at Michigan International Speedway and Pocono Raceway.
. Great Clips 300… Turner Motorsports partner and the longest-running primary sponsor in the Nationwide Series, Great Clips Inc., will serve as title sponsor for this weekend’s NNS event at AMS. The second running of the Great Clips 300 is slated for 7:30 p.m. EDT on Saturday, September 3rd on ESPN2.
Ryan Newman Quote
RYAN WE UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE GOING TO RUN A SPECIAL PAINT SCHEME AND THE NO. 08 AT ATLANTA NEXT WEEK IN THE CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES TO HONOR A FRIEND OF YOURS THAT IS AN UP AND COMING DRIVER. WHAT DID HE DO TO MAKE SUCH A FAVORABLE IMPRESSION ON YOU?
“He was a good man and it’s just as simple as that. He became a friend of mine and we actually met the Slocumb family at Atlanta Motor Speedway and I had asked Ed for a good place to go fishing in the area and he said ‘why don’t you come down to the Slocumb house?’ So I drove about 50 minutes down to the Slocumb house and fished for a little while and got a chance to meet Beau and the rest of the family and turns out he became a very good friend and we had a lot of things similar, lifestyle-wise and long story short he lost a battle with cancer.
He was employed at Turner Motorsports and working on the trucks and it was his dream to race a truck and he had raced an ARCA car for Steve Turner there a couple times and think his best finish was 4th at Kansas if I remember right but it’s just a way to remember him and give his family an opportunity to see something that he always wanted to do and his name is going to be on the passenger side on top of the roof and just real thankful for having Realtree and Brandt to step up and sponsor the race for us and for a way to just give back to the memory of someone else. Steve Turner may have been a bigger Beau Slocumb fan than I was and never got a chance to watch Beau race much but he was a very genuine man and was raised right and that is what struck me first and foremost.”
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