CONCORD, N.C. – Oscar Mayer and Roush Fenway Racing have announced Ryan Newman’s throwback paint scheme for the upcoming Southern 500 weekend at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway.
Newman’s No. 6 Ford Mustang will match that of his 1999 scheme from the USAC Silver Crown Series, the year he won the Silver Crown championship.
In the sixth year of NASCAR’s award-winning throwback weekend, Darlington Raceway will celebrate “NASCAR’s Champions … Past, Present and Future” for its 2020 throwback campaign.
The Official Throwback Weekend of NASCAR will be celebrated during the track’s 71st running of the famed Southern 500 on Labor Day Weekend, Sept. 5-6.
Newman will throwback to a championship of his own, running a scheme that matches that of his 1999 USAC Coors Light Silver Bullet Series national title.
In that season, Newman won twice and finished in the top 10 in 12 of 15 races.
“Darlington Throwback weekend is always cool, and it’s especially cool for me this year because Oscar Mayer has given us the opportunity to throw it back to my Silver Crown championship season in 1999, which seems like forever ago,” Newman said. “It was a pretty special moment and year back in my resumé-building time to make it to that level, and I’m thankful to be representing it again so many years later in the Cup Series.”
The South Bend, Ind., native became the first driver to win in all three major USAC divisions that season and did it all while balancing studying vehicle-structure engineering at Purdue. Additionally, he was named USAC National Rookie of the Year in all three divisions.
“As a brand whose history goes back over a hundred years, Oscar Mayer is excited to reminisce on 1999 with Ryan,” said Nick Guerten, Director of Marketing for Oscar Mayer. “The passion and excitement from fans around Throwback Weekend is one of the reasons Oscar Mayer is thrilled to be a part of the NASCAR community, and we’re looking forward to seeing Ryan behind the wheel of the No. 6 at Darlington in just a few weeks.”