Ramblings of a Jackhole

The Jackhole is a Ryan Newman fan.  Ryan, after all has an engineering degree from Purdue and found something unique to do with his engineering degree. Being a Racer!

The Jackhole too has an engineering degree (also from a Big 10 school) and found something unique to do with his engineering degree.  Being a Jackhole!

Anywho, with all the news that Ryan has “verbally” agreed to drive for the new Stewart-Haas team (or is that the Haas-Stewart team?) the Jackhole did a bit of Internet searching on if this might be true or not.

Ryan’s Fan club domain name is currently Ryan12Newman.com.    As he won’t be driving the #12 next year, the Jackhole was wondering if he (or more likely someone that works for his fan club) has registered a new domain name.  Now ryan39newman.com was registered on June 27, 2008.   However Ryan drove the #39 for Penske in the Busch/Nationwide series.  This is registered to a Ken O’Lone at 1615 Ashley Downs Dr in Apex, NC and lists a Tara Anderson at the same address as the administrative contact. The #39 car hasn’t been driven in Cup series since 2005 when Stremme drove it in four races.  If memory serves me correctly I think Ryan may have also driven a #39 car in open wheel races.  So the #39 is not unreasonable as Ryan’s possible new car number.

But even more interesting is that Ryan4Newman.com was also registered on July 26th, 2008 by this duo.  This is about the same time Ryan reportedly made an “oral agreement” with Tony Stewart.

Is Ken and or Tara working for Ryan’s Fan Club as Apex, NC is not that far from Mooresville, NC (Ryan’s fan club home)?  Or are they possibly planning on trying to sell this domain name to Ryan?

If they work for Ryan’s Fan Club, does this mean that Ryan will be driving the #4 next year with Tony driving the #14?  The #4 car is not running this year and was last run by Ward Burton in 2007.  And the #4 and #14 is a nice pair of car number to run (like the #2 and #12 Penske has (ignoring the #77 of course)).

Or are Ken and Tara working on a hunch (or inside information?) and betting on getting some cash for the Ryan4Newman.com domain?  Of course, they COULD be offering to donate this domain to Ryan’s fan club and simply trying to prevent someone else from “cybersquatting” this domain.  So the Jackhole isn’t ready to jump to any conclusions, nor should his readers.

Let’s keep an eye out for the announcement and see how this all plays out!

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