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Ryan Newman was evaluated and released from the infield medical centre following a spectacular crash in the late stages of Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway.

Under cool evening skies in the Phoenix desert Penske Racing's Daytona 500 champion Ryan Newman took his first Coors Light Pole Award of 2008 ahead of Saturday's Subway Fresh 500.

Race result; Checker Auto Parts 500, Phoenix International Raceway, Arizona, 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series round 34 of 36.

Ryan Newman kept up his strong qualifying form with his fourth NASCAR pole position in a row, smashing the record at the one-mile Phoenix International Raceway with a 135.499mph lap in qualifying for Sunday's Checker Auto Parts 500.

By Andrew Charman

Ryan Newman shattered the track record at Lowe's Motor Speedway on Thursday night to win pole position for the UAW-GM Quality 500, his ALLTEL Dodge putting in a lap at 188.877mph. Now he needs to win Saturday night's race to revive his challenge for the Nextel Cup.

Newman/Haas Racing announced today the departure of senior engineer Peter Gibbons who will leave the four-time Champ Car World Series champions. Gibbons joined the team as race engineer late in 1991 from Penske Racing and was promoted to senior engineer in 2001.

Complete Bud Pole Qualifying results and starting lineup for Sunday's Mountain Dew Southern 500 at the 1.366-mile Darlington Raceway.

Ryan Newman's last appearance at Bristol Motor Speedway caused a lot of jaws to drop as he shattered the track record in qualifying. The 14.908 second recordsetting lap was the first one any driver had ever turned in the 14- second bracket at the .5333-mile concrete Bristol bowl.

In a classic fuel mileage race at the two-mile Michigan International Speedway, Penske Racing's Ryan Newman capitalised on Kurt Busch's unsuccessful gamble to try and run 65 laps on a single tank to take home his fifth win of the 2003 season.