Euphoric because Ryan Newman rose from the near-dead to somehow, someway make his return to a track where his life flashed before a nation’s eyes back in February.
Newman was never really in contention on Sunday and finished 19th, but that didn’t matter in the least. Put this one in the history books as the most miraculous 19th-place finish in the history of motor sports. The fact that Ryan Newman was even in the race is a marvel of modern medicine and structural engineering.
Who will ever forget Newman’s horrific crash at the Daytona 500 when the Great American Race nearly became the Great American Tragedy?