[Quality88]

Another piece of the Stewart-Haas Racing puzzle will be fit into place Thursday when the race team will unveil the U.S. Army as primary sponsor of Ryan Newman's No. 39 car for next season, sources have confirmed to NASCAR.COM.

The announcement is scheduled to be made at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Lowe's Motor Speedway, site of this weekend's Sprint Cup event. The Stewart-Haas organization now has both its Chevrolets sponsored for next season -- no small feat in this economy -- with Office Depot and Old Spice set to back the car of team co-owner Tony Stewart.

It's another setback for Dale Earnhardt Inc., which had the Army on its No. 8 car this season. DEI driver Paul Menard announced last week that he and his Menard's sponsorship would be moving to Yates Racing for the 2009 campaign.
But for Stewart, a two-time series champion who won Sunday's event at Talladega Superspeedway, it's another big step toward his debut as a Sprint Cup car owner.
"I'm really excited about having the opportunity to be hands-on and be a part of getting things going for next year and trying to get the key people hired right now and dealing with all the people at the shop that I haven't had a chance to work with yet," he said Monday on a conference call with reporters. "It's an exciting time for me. It's the busiest I've ever been in my life right now."

NASCAR.COM - Stewart-Haas to announce Army will sponsor No. 39 - Oct 7, 2008

[onearmsteve]

i thought Newman was going to be driving with the #4.

[Quality88]

Originally Posted by onearmsteve

i thought Newman was going to be driving with the #4.

Nope... #39

[loco4pablo]

I just don't get our government!!! As much as I like Ryan Newman, I have to admit.... Using Newman to represnt the Army is like using me to represnt Dancing with the Stars!!
Ryan is too Fat and too old to be recruited by any branch of service.
At least the Sarge looks like he could actually do a few sit ups.

[onearmsteve]

i have no idea where i got the #4 from from. i swear i heard it several times. oh well. i don't really care anyway.

[Quality88]

Originally Posted by loco4pablo

I just don't get our government!!! As much as I like Ryan Newman, I have to admit.... Using Newman to represnt the Army is like using me to represnt Dancing with the Stars!!
Ryan is too Fat and too old to be recruited by any branch of service.
At least the Sarge looks like he could actually do a few sit ups.

The age limit for recruitment is 42. He will be turnin 31 in december. He's well in the range of recruitment. Pudgy he is, but doesn't mean he couldn't be in.

[mccastle]

Another team still owns the #4 and are still going to try and run races next year using that number. I can not remember the name of the race team but Tony addressed a couple of months ago on his radio show and said out of respect to that team he would not use it. Morgan McClure? I can not remember who it was.

Carrie.

[Quality88]

Originally Posted by mccastle

Another team still owns the #4 and are still going to try and run races next year using that number. I can not remember the name of the race team but Tony addressed a couple of months ago on his radio show and said out of respect to that team he would not use it. Morgan McClure? I can not remember who it was.

Carrie.

Morgan Mclure is correct. They have had that car number for many years, and have fallen victom to NA$ACR's super teams.