@@whac1c he also probably would've won the spring darlington race if not for hitting the kill switch on pit road and not realizing it until he was 8 laps down.
they had a u shaped x pipe. look up "dr gas nascar exhaust" on youtube. Its purely the exhaust layout, (and the high rpm was a result of no tapered spacer, so they had about 950hp)
Friday afternoons were just the best in this era. The night qualifying was even more epic. What a great show he put on. The crowd went nuts every time he was on the track qualifying. Just on rails. Still so impressive to watch. Those things sounded so awesome too. Watching this put me in great mood. Good times.
i do miss getting home from 8th grade back then, turning on speed, and watching cup qualifying, then trackside, and hopefully a truck race to cap off a friday night. if i knew it was the golden era of nascar, i would've cared more at the time.
Qualifying and practice used to be an event on its on. Once they took away the ability to change motors and started worrying about cost it lost its cool. I miss the higher horsepower.
@@ashketchumsdad plus cars had the tech at the time and HP to break track records. Nothing could be more exciting at a qualifying session than seeing a driver break a track record.
@@250R1983lover absolutely. There was a lot of hype for it because it could happen anywhere besides the plate races and Atlanta. Especially when Newman qualified.
2001-2006 era NASCAR ... miss those old cars, how they sounded, how they performed, how they looked. All those fans in the stands cheering on drivers during qualifying. Ryan was at his peak during those years. Awesome compilation!
0:00 - Those two weeks at Charlotte in 2001, the Winston all-star race and the Coke 600, are where I became a Ryan Newman fan - from dominating the Winston Open qualifier until his engine blew with 2 to go, to going out and sitting on the pole for the 600 the very next week, all with just 2 Cup races under his belt to that point? He definitely got people's attention. Also that #02 Alltel Ford, underrated paint scheme right there IMO
@@BrettMKW One could argue Newman being the greatest or at least one of the greatest, qualifier of all time, given his insane speed. To be honest, I think he would have kept that speed going, if the gen 4 car lasted longer
@@BrettMKW I'm talking in pure dominance over an era. I mean it was like 1 every 4 races. Was incredible. Isaac, Pearson and Petty are others that come to mind. Granted i wasn't able to watch those other guys race. Not saying he is the greatest qualifier ever, but I'd definitely mention his name before I make that list. And he would be a finalist too
@@gabemarques9073 Same. People shouldnt get mad. Newman races that way with every single driver, his entire career. And you know what? It clearly works for him. Most of his wins came from some pit road strategy with old tires I believe Dale Jarrett even said when Newman was in the hunt for the title in '14, "he's the best I've ever seen on two tires". There is no way that 31 car gets to homestead in 2014 without him in it. And certainly it put him in the playoffs last year, giving life to a team that so desperately needed it. I doubt anyone will look at that team and predict he'd make the playoffs. Most scoffed at it, barring an unforeseen win. A format that doesn't favor overachievers as much as raw speed thanks to stage racing. But Newman did it man. By 3 points. And those 3 points were in large part to him racing someone's favorite driver on lap 83.
More fans in the stands for qualifying back then than for races today. And those Gen-4 high RPM engines screaming down the straightaways is such a nostalgic sound that we'll never hear again. 2001-2006 was peak Nascar and nobody can change my mind on that.
I remember never giving a crap about qualifying other than looking online to see the results. Newman came along and i made sure to catch Qualifying every week for several years. This dude could take a car and put down the fast lap like no other. That all changed a bit when he lost Borland. Everyone forgets how much Innovation Borland was a part of. Borland and Knaus were the ultimate creative crew chiefs in one Nascar era.
Agreed. This year's Daytona 500 in general was one of the craziest I ever saw, and as pumped as I was when Denny Hamlin(3rd favorite Cup Series driver)won, I was concerned for Newman. Although, I knew he would have some injuries from the wreck, I didn't think it was fatal.
More fans watching qualifying in 2003 than are at the actual races now, even before covid. The cars were so much better back then and had a ton more speed than the current boxy heaps with a foot tall spoiler.
Back when you needed talent to qualify one of these cars. Today it is a matter of cruising around with the full throttle and wait for the lap to be over, as Keselowski illustrated.
This is how I want people to remember Ryan Newman when he’s gone from this world someday. This man was an unbelievable qualifier on Friday & Saturdays. Not his Daytona wreck from 2020, sure he came close to winning a title in 2014, but his time with Penske when he was very competitive from 2002-2005 in that #12 Attell car not only winning poles but also winning 12 races in those four seasons & finished Top7 in points in every one of them (Three 6ths & 7th in 2004).
I hope Ryan is at least considered for the NASCAR Hall of Fame, He and Matt Borland both also went to college and got their engineering degrees, which is why they were so fast at qualifying almost every single week!
I really dig how cars look now (I’ve really only disliked the COT) but man, early 2000’s cars were just 🔥. I love the look of when cars weren’t slammed to the ground.
Wish newman couldve stayed and penske, he was bad fast there and i think he wouldve won a championship if he didnt dnf as many times he got a win or pole.
2003 for Ryan Newman in qualifying was something to look back on. When you got 11 poles in 1 season, that's an accomplishment in of itself.
if it wasn't for the dodge engines being unreliable he would have dominated Kenseth in the points.
Not to mention his 8 wins
Fuel mileage was a big deal that year
@@whac1c he also probably would've won the spring darlington race if not for hitting the kill switch on pit road and not realizing it until he was 8 laps down.
Ryan Newman is pretty much the reason single-car qualifying needs to be held everywhere.
Very underrated comment
Man i love the scream of those Gen 4 engines!
Any higher and they would sound like F1 engines
MrCopter let’s not go that far and say all that haha
Zero viscosity oil
RIP
they had a u shaped x pipe. look up "dr gas nascar exhaust" on youtube. Its purely the exhaust layout, (and the high rpm was a result of no tapered spacer, so they had about 950hp)
2002-2005 Ryan Newman on qualifying day was like god-tier level! 23.6% of the time he qualified on the pole (34 out of 144 races).
That was Newman in his prime. I wish he could have stayed like that in the 2010’s.
Friday afternoons were just the best in this era. The night qualifying was even more epic. What a great show he put on. The crowd went nuts every time he was on the track qualifying. Just on rails. Still so impressive to watch. Those things sounded so awesome too. Watching this put me in great mood. Good times.
i do miss getting home from 8th grade back then, turning on speed, and watching cup qualifying, then trackside, and hopefully a truck race to cap off a friday night. if i knew it was the golden era of nascar, i would've cared more at the time.
Qualifying and practice used to be an event on its on. Once they took away the ability to change motors and started worrying about cost it lost its cool. I miss the higher horsepower.
That run at Bristol in 2003 was unreal of a lap
You ain't lying. That car was flying through the corners.
“FOURTEEN NINETY!!!!!! I can’t BELIEVE that!!”
How crazy, now every driver races like Ryan. Hard to pass but he did it with class.....
Man I miss hearing fans go nuts for qualifying
Man qualifying was awesome back in the day. The way it was presented I think had a lot to do with it. Plus the go or go home cars
@@ashketchumsdad plus cars had the tech at the time and HP to break track records. Nothing could be more exciting at a qualifying session than seeing a driver break a track record.
@@250R1983lover absolutely. There was a lot of hype for it because it could happen anywhere besides the plate races and Atlanta. Especially when Newman qualified.
@Mike North Late to the conversation, but every team was put in the spotlight for qualifying. I'd imagine that helped smaller teams get sponsors
2001-2006 era NASCAR ... miss those old cars, how they sounded, how they performed, how they looked. All those fans in the stands cheering on drivers during qualifying. Ryan was at his peak during those years. Awesome compilation!
0:00 - Those two weeks at Charlotte in 2001, the Winston all-star race and the Coke 600, are where I became a Ryan Newman fan - from dominating the Winston Open qualifier until his engine blew with 2 to go, to going out and sitting on the pole for the 600 the very next week, all with just 2 Cup races under his belt to that point? He definitely got people's attention.
Also that #02 Alltel Ford, underrated paint scheme right there IMO
Likewise. A guy that came out of no where and lit up the charts was definitely and attention getter.
@@BrettMKW One could argue Newman being the greatest or at least one of the greatest, qualifier of all time, given his insane speed. To be honest, I think he would have kept that speed going, if the gen 4 car lasted longer
@@BrettMKW I'm talking in pure dominance over an era. I mean it was like 1 every 4 races. Was incredible. Isaac, Pearson and Petty are others that come to mind. Granted i wasn't able to watch those other guys race. Not saying he is the greatest qualifier ever, but I'd definitely mention his name before I make that list. And he would be a finalist too
31:23 He was so fast that he hit the rev limiter going down the backstretch! Incredible!
I will always remember rushing home from school to watch qualifying on Friday's. I can still feel that excitement when I watch these old videos lol
Most of my Fridays after elementary school in a nutshell
Exact same here although I was in high school.
sameeeeee
Yesss middle and high school for me but loved watching qualifying on Speed
Same but middle school. Friends wouldn't want to watch but I'd be like SHUTUP WE'RE WATCHING.
Literally same lol it’s how I knew the weekend started! Probably why I became a Newman fan
I watch this video up to 2006 at least 3 times a month
NASCAR Fan's: "Glad to see Ryan Newman is back, hes really awesome."
2019 Bristol: *Hey*
2017 Dover: *Hello*
@Caleb J. Reed Good
@Caleb J. Reed This is the meme.
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I actually defended him after that, so I'm exempt from such criticism.
@@gabemarques9073 Same. People shouldnt get mad. Newman races that way with every single driver, his entire career. And you know what? It clearly works for him. Most of his wins came from some pit road strategy with old tires
I believe Dale Jarrett even said when Newman was in the hunt for the title in '14, "he's the best I've ever seen on two tires". There is no way that 31 car gets to homestead in 2014 without him in it. And certainly it put him in the playoffs last year, giving life to a team that so desperately needed it. I doubt anyone will look at that team and predict he'd make the playoffs. Most scoffed at it, barring an unforeseen win. A format that doesn't favor overachievers as much as raw speed thanks to stage racing. But Newman did it man. By 3 points. And those 3 points were in large part to him racing someone's favorite driver on lap 83.
5:44 That. Engine. Sound.
For anybody wondering what an engine is supposed to sound like.
Ryan Newman drives every lap like it his last most drivers hate that he races hard but I admire his drive to win
Favorite driver for almost 20 years. In the early 2000's I was a teenager and absolutely LOVED qualifying just as much as the race! The Rocket.❤
Ryan newman:
*I AM SPEED*
Back in the early and mid 2000s if you wanted to know how fast a race track was, all you had to do was send Ryan Newman out.
Funny. When there aren't any other cars messing up for him to get caught up in, he's pretty damn good. Good to have you back, Rocket Man 🙏🏻
Newman is unstoppable when nobody else is on the track.
Next Sunday could possibly be the final race for Ryan Newman. If that’s the case, congrats to Newman on a great career! 🏁
More fans in the stands for qualifying back then than for races today.
And those Gen-4 high RPM engines screaming down the straightaways is such a nostalgic sound that we'll never hear again. 2001-2006 was peak Nascar and nobody can change my mind on that.
The gen 4 sound though 😍
That 14.90 Bristol lap is my favorite just haulin
He’d probably have a few more if RCR and Roush didn’t lack in speed department !
Imagine if he was driving for Penske now...
Imagine if we still had qualifying
Thank you for blessing us with this
“Light the fuse, here comes the rocket!”
What a pleasure watching this guy qualifying... I'm afraid we'll never see it again :(
I remember never giving a crap about qualifying other than looking online to see the results. Newman came along and i made sure to catch Qualifying every week for several years. This dude could take a car and put down the fast lap like no other. That all changed a bit when he lost Borland. Everyone forgets how much Innovation Borland was a part of. Borland and Knaus were the ultimate creative crew chiefs in one Nascar era.
Super glad to see Ryan Newman is back in the race car this weekend after that horrific flip in the 2020 Daytona 500 in February on the last lap
Agreed. This year's Daytona 500 in general was one of the craziest I ever saw, and as pumped as I was when Denny Hamlin(3rd favorite Cup Series driver)won, I was concerned for Newman. Although, I knew he would have some injuries from the wreck, I didn't think it was fatal.
@@kjprodouctions9050 me to
@@marcisawesome0469 Fyi, I initially wanted Jimmie Johnson to win his 3rd Daytona 500, but he was involved in that big crash late in the race.
@@kjprodouctions9050 yeah I watched the whole onboard he's still planning to retire after the 2020 season 😭😢😫
@@marcisawesome0469 Full time anyway. He could run some races in 2021.
Newman and Borland having engineering degrees was an unheard of thing back then. They had such a huge advantage and stole so many races because of it.
Make qualifying a spectacle again!
Listen to those RPMs! Damn I wish they still ran 10000 rpms. It sounded too badass.
This why Ryan Rocket Newman became my favorite driver after rusty wallace retired. Thanks for the memories Ryan and Rusty.
Hard to believe he hasn't won a pole since 2013. I guess it'd only be fitting if he can squeak one more out soon lol
I would give anything if NASCAR would go back to this gen of car. They looked better, raced better, faster, more exciting... Everything was better.
That 2007 Alltel Dodge was 🔥
If they uploaded an old 2000s qualifying session in full that would be awesome!
TheMW2informer Yes yes yes!
They did 🤣
@@gagemeyer363 when?! I can’t find it.
@@TheMW2informer I just typed in 2000 qualifying sessions for nascar. You can look through and find the truck you want
More fans watching qualifying in 2003 than are at the actual races now, even before covid. The cars were so much better back then and had a ton more speed than the current boxy heaps with a foot tall spoiler.
Newman was not scared. Always been a fan but him qualifying was a show itself. 💪🏼
man he has been so good by getting 51 poles over the years with different teams He Has Been So Super Fast
I used to love watching Newman go qualify for the first few years of his career. Dude was unaware of the brake pedal. LMAO.
newman should definitely be a hall of famer
Yes and hes also a good driver cause hes driving for a 4 star team and finishing top 10 and top 15
And now he is in the 51. Wow
Back when you needed talent to qualify one of these cars.
Today it is a matter of cruising around with the full throttle and wait for the lap to be over, as Keselowski illustrated.
Not on short tracks and road courses. Its low downforce.
@@Fastcat4242
Fair enough. However, why have a rule package where driver skill is unnecessary on any circuit in the first place?
Great video. More of these please NASCAR!
Look how fast that thing looked coming down the backstretch at Charlotte in 03. Something we’re missing today
uhh, did you forget about 2005?
More videos like this NASCAR...
5:44 make the cars sound like that again
9:10 is way better.
I watch this once in awhile to get those juices going
The first ad that popped up in the video was the K&N ad with Ryan Newman 😂
One of the most underrated drivers for a long time. Just always on the wrong teams at the wrong time.
This is how I want people to remember Ryan Newman when he’s gone from this world someday. This man was an unbelievable qualifier on Friday & Saturdays. Not his Daytona wreck from 2020, sure he came close to winning a title in 2014, but his time with Penske when he was very competitive from 2002-2005 in that #12 Attell car not only winning poles but also winning 12 races in those four seasons & finished Top7 in points in every one of them (Three 6ths & 7th in 2004).
I hope Ryan is at least considered for the NASCAR Hall of Fame, He and Matt Borland both also went to college and got their engineering degrees, which is why they were so fast at qualifying almost every single week!
He single handily improved safety
Man I miss the sounds of them big 800+ horsepower motors......truly sounded like rockets 🚀
The Rocketman: Ryan Newman
BEST VIDEO ON THIS CHANNEL
Goat
Saw 4 of these poles. Racing Ryan. Lol love it.
ROCKET MAN
The Rocketman is back!
His crew chief at the time Matt Borland really helped with a lot of his poles
In the penzoil burnout challenge ryan newman had two nicknames the aforementioned rocket man or the pole man
19:57 cones on the apron? What kind of dumb idea is that?
Ryan Newman is officially the toughest substance above diamonds.
Breaking track records and taking names
Number of poles per year by Ryan Newman:
2001: 1
2002: 6
2003: 11
2004: 9
2005: 8
2006: 2
2007: 5
2008: 1
2009: 2
2010: 1
2011: 3
2012: 0
2013: 2
2014-present: 0
Good to have him back and just in time too, The Race is about to start on Sunday.
That's why he is the 🚀man
NEXT: Do all of Jeff Gordon's pole runs. 2 hour run time!
The rocket man
Boiler up, hammer down!
Hey this is amazing
I really dig how cars look now (I’ve really only disliked the COT) but man, early 2000’s cars were just 🔥. I love the look of when cars weren’t slammed to the ground.
Gotta give it to him he has a crazy amount of poles
Damnit.......aaaaaaaaaaaaaand back to iRacing. Who needs sleep.
I think he broken half of the track records
You could close you’re eyes especially in 03-04 and know Newman would get the pole
I hope he wins this week that will be incredible he gets hurt first race back wins
Kyle Busch won his first race back after breaking his leg and won the championship in 2015 so I think it’s possible
Merety_ 91 I know but Ryan Newman don’t have the best equipment
ROCKETMAN
No driver can come close to Newman. And knowing nascar now hell be the last great qualifier of the good days of Nascar. Rocket was the best....
Wow I can completely see why they call Ryan Newman the Rocket Man for a reason.
he de beast
Bristol lap is 5:12 ish in
I love nascar
I’m surprised he couldn’t get a pole on a road course
what happened to why wasnt he racing?(idk bcs im a new nascar fan) was that bcs of the crash?
Yeah, bc the crash at Daytona.
Mike S thanks
The S P E E D
Second, so I guess I’m the first loser according to Ricky Bobby
Rocket man
And now he's driving the 51 how ironic
newmans last pole was 10 years ago
Ryan Newman had 1000 hp
It’s crazy he can’t drive in traffic
How did he run top 10 like a third of the time doe
dover 2006 is missing
Wish newman couldve stayed and penske, he was bad fast there and i think he wouldve won a championship if he didnt dnf as many times he got a win or pole.
Ahhhh back when race cars looked like and sounded like race cars....not big boxes of bullshit
headass
Im ok the way they look now. Because if NASCAR kept the same car in 2002 and raced it today Newman would be dead
Might want to take those rose tinted glasses off... the cars look and sound as great as they ever have
@@steve-o1012 facts
@@Gage_Brumley lmfao... wrong
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