For Ryan Newman, it was a personal affliction. The veteran went as far as consciously snubbing an opportunity he got to race in the IndyCar Series in 1998. Newman was born in South Bend, Indiana. The pressure to enter open-wheel racing was only higher on him courtesy of the state in which he was born. In 1998, he was an undergraduate at Purdue ... More @Wikipedia
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