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Hear from NASCAR driver Ryan Newman as he prepares for the Sharpie 500 at Bristol International Speedway. Newman is looking to become the first driver to compete in four events in one week.
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" Well obviously literally a cup race your way in the off season I was trying to find some other things to race in. After my experience with like Kevin -- a truck at Atlanta last year we put a truck races on the schedule Bristol being one of them. We worked a little bit more and I relax have found out that the modified -- going to be going to Bristol and turns out obviously and degree of planning the same time the same weekend is you know the cup races. So we did those three things had those and I was like -- and that's spread nationwide tried to kind of -- four and we had moved to schedule around a little bit with the junior motorsports on the personal Chevrolet. To go from that and doing the Kansas are you -- go to Bristol into the Bristol race so. I talked to what Tony Curtis and what do you think about this goes as it went on and I had no it was when he got to do so. That's part of the reason but obviously I want want to -- all racism. Bristles are very racetrack and and look forward to a -- kind of goes back having good preparation with the race cars obviously in. You know have the -- upright and feel all right and then -- 1100 laps. Of race and but there's obviously probably another maybe thousand laps I guess maybe in practice sessions so. Quite a few laps but -- the -- after violent. Yet physical with them. And hydrated you know you write those -- the biggest things I don't think cut your muscles and and it's like that's going to be -- the biggest issue I think it's going to be to you know. Managing the heat -- the hydration and his you know reading them --"