Ryan Newman hospitalized after crash in Daytona 500.

Eve O'Donnell of NASCAR with

Newman

's conditioner

Ryan

Newman

is being treated at Halifax Medical Center he's in serious condition but doctors have indicated his injuries are non-life-threatening we appreciate your thoughts and prayers and ask that you respect the privacy of

Ryan

and his family during this time we appreciate your patience and cooperation and we'll provide more information as it becomes available again you never want to hear the term serious but

non-life-threatening about as positive as you can expect given the nature of the wreck now not surprisingly this impacts a lot of fans to NASCAR fans

Ryan

Newman

fans a lot of folks were gathered here outside the hospital awaiting word on

Newman

's condition in fact some were visibly cheering when they found out the relative good news that came about the serious but non-life-threatening injuries one fan we spoke with Chet from Ponce Inlet a longtime NASCAR fan family is there I mean it was my

son's birthday and you know did he's tore up about it you know and he's a die-hard race game just turned 13 you know so it's it's hard yeah it hits everyone hard no question about it and there's no question what tonight's incident has done to the NASCAR community in general current drivers former drivers fans team owners everyone coming together as one sending out thoughts and prayers throughout the evening let's send things over now to the Speedway where new six

sports director Jamie say is standing by hello Jamie Thank You

Ryan

this is where

Ryan

Newman

's car settled

after

that vicious

crash

that

Ryan

Welch just showed you his momentum taking him the length of pit road and it settled right about there it took several minutes for emergency crews to extricate

Newman

out of the vehicle and once they did he was immediately taken over to Halifax Medical now

Ryan

Newman

was racing for the checkered flag in the

Daytona

500 he was going for his second

championship when he was spun and involved in that vicious wreck it allowed Denny Hamlin to take the lead and take the checkered flag for his third victory now Hamlin knew there was a wreck but he didn't know the extent of it until he got into Victory Lane and was told as soon as he found out and his team found out that's when the celebration was really subdued you know racing is so competitive it's an ultra competitive sport but it's also close-knit these drivers know each other

very well Hamlin and

Newman

have been racing against each other for years and years here's Denny Hamlin's reaction to the wreck just like everyone else you're like give us an update like what's going on and we're just you know a person's health is bigger than any race or any accomplishment that you can possibly have so we're praying for

Ryan

right now and that's kind of all we're thinking about thank everybody's praying and lifting up

Ryan

and we all hope

you know it was very subdued in here once we understood you know what had happened it was subdued all around the racetrack when that wreck happened as fans media drivers tried to get the latest on

Ryan

Newman

Denny Hamlin has now won the

Daytona

500 three times but again he was thinking of his comrade in in the driver's seat

Ryan

Newman

a little bit more about

Ryan

Newman

42 years old of 20 year veteran of Cup racing he's won the

Daytona

500 before he's a popular well-known man and a

father of two reporting live from

Daytona

International Speedway I'm Jamie say getting results new six let's send it back in to new six all right Jamie we appreciate the latest from you out there thank you