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Newman nipping at boss's heels

By Terry Blount
ESPN.com

Monday, June 8, 2009

Want to know who the most overlooked driver in NASCAR is right now? It's easy to go overlooked these days. Kyle Busch breaks a guitar, Dale Earnhardt Jr. changes crew chiefs, Jeremy Mayfield and Carl Long say they were wronged, and Tony Stewart earns a special victory. Meanwhile, one man has quietly made himself a contender again and hardly anyone has noticed. It's that other guy at Stewart-Haas Racing, the always-analytical engineer with no neck, a devoted wife and five dogs. Ryan Newman ...

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