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Reports: Ryan Newman to drive No. 6 for Roush Fenway Racing in 2019

Nick Bromberg
·College football and motorsports writer
Newman has won one race in five seasons with Richard Childress Racing. (Getty)
Newman has won one race in five seasons with Richard Childress Racing. (Getty)

Ryan Newman wasn’t without a ride for the 2019 season for very long.

Newman will drive the No. 6 car for Roush Fenway Racing according to multiple reports. The official announcement of Newman’s arrival will happen Saturday at Richmond.

Newman, 40, announced last weekend that he was leaving Richard Childress Racing at the end of the season. Days before he said that, Trevor Bayne said he wasn’t going to be back at Roush in 2019. That wasn’t surprising; Roush pulled Bayne from the car for part of the 2018 season and replaced him with Matt Kenseth.

Newman would drive full-time for Roush in 2019 and beyond, meaning Kenseth’s part-time schedule efforts look to be one-and-done.

Roush Fenway Racing will be the fourth team Newman has driven for in his Cup Series career. He started out with Team Penske and moved to Stewart-Haas Racing in 2009. He’s driven the past five seasons for RCR and won once. It came in the spring of 2017 via pit strategy.

Newman’s best finish in the standings is second. He did that in 2014 as he finished second to Kevin Harvick at Homestead-Miami Speedway in the final race of the playoffs. Newman didn’t win a race that season but made his way through the playoffs and came within a spot of winning his first race of the season to win the title.

His fortunes have fallen since that run. Newman made the playoffs in 2015 despite a big points penalty levied towards his team for manipulating tires and he was 11th in the standings. He hasn’t finished in the top 15 since. He’s currently 17th in the points standings, the first driver out of the playoffs.

Newman will join forces with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. at Roush. Like Newman, Stenhouse also missed the playoffs in 2018.


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Nick Bromberg is a writer for Yahoo Sports.

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