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WOW! Congrats to Ryan Newman - The Daytona 500 Winner!!!
Congratulations to Ryan Newman who
won the 2008 Daytona 500!!!
Kodak Motorsports driver, Ryan Newman won the 50th edition of the Daytona 500 race in a dramatic finale on Sunday. Newman, in his No. 12 Alltel-Kodak Dodge, waited while the big stars fell back one by one. Then, with only Tony Stewart ahead of him, Newman got a push from teammate Kurt Busch to take the lead on the final lap.
The Penske drivers finished 1-2 in the race.
Newman was grateful for the assistance from team mate Busch. "Kurt was the push from heaven that made it all happen," Newman said. "Without a doubt, he could have easily gone three-wide and split us through the center and made one heck of a mess there. But he chose to be a teammate, and that was the most honorable thing that he could do."
"It was emotional pushing him over the line, amazing to have a Penske one-two over the line. Something very important for us," said Busch.
Penske, the most successful owner in open-wheel history with 14 wins in the prestigious Indianapolis 500, now has a victory in NASCAR's showcase event. And it came in the 50th running of the Daytona 500, in thrilling fashion, with a last-lap pass for the second consecutive year. The win marked Penske Racing's first on a superspeedway.
Kodak will be the primary sponsor of the No. 12 car in six NASCAR Sprint Cup races in 2008. What a way to start the racing season! You go Ryan!
Newman's Daytona 500 win is Kodak's 4th as a sponsor. Kodak won in 1992 with Ernie Irvan and in 1994 and 1995 with Sterling Marlin.
Kodakers Tom Page, Betty Noonan, Jeff Hayzlett, Karl Post, and Lesley Marangola in front of Sterling's car that won the 1994 Daytona 500. The car was was part of a pre-race parade of to celebrate the 50th running of the Daytona 500.
Comments
Posted By: pierre (4/23/2008)
Comment: the car in the photo is not the car Marlin won the 95 Daytona 500 in. That car in the photo is a Lumina, NASCAR started racing the Monte Carlo in 95. That is probably the car that won the 1994 500, Sterling Marlins first ever career victory.
Response: Pierre - You certainly know your stuff! I corrected the caption. Thanks for letting me know and for checking out the blog! -tom
Posted By: tom (2/21/2008)
Comment: Gene - I am sorry to hear you had a bad experience. Sounds like you purchased the Single Use Camera Plus digital which is a way for people to get digital versions of their picture from a traditional camera. More info here: http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-locale=en_US&pq-path=1046 Many people like this option. We want to offer choice and I am sorry if that did not come across clearly to you.
Posted By: Gene (2/21/2008)
Comment: But, don't trust Kodak advertising! If I went in to a Camera store and asked for a DIGITAL camera, the clerk would show me a camera that would port pictures directly to my PC. It would also give me the ability to edit out pictures I did not want. So in buying the Kodak Single Use Digital Camera I thought I would get the same. Not so, the Kodak product is nothing more than a regular single use camera. You can't edit out pictures you do not want and most agregiously you MUST take the camera and pay for hard prints at your local film developer. Shame on me for not asking more questions. But, shame on KODAK for purposeful misrepresentation.
Posted By: Kendall (2/18/2008)
Comment: Great race!
Posted By: Steve D. (2/18/2008)
Comment: It was great to hear Ryan thank Kodak for it's sponsorship after he won the race. Congratulations to the whole team. You won the Daytona 500!!!