The national names by family succession: the speedway builder's grandson, and the other home name of his generation — South Bend ties, graded; the Granger tie is none

1977–2013 · the Newman and Stremme lines (boundary test)

The builder's grandson: Ryan Newman (born 8 December 1977, South Bend) said it himself on NBC Sports' NASCAR America in 2017: "My grandfather helped build South Bend Motor Speedway, so racing's been in my blood for a long time." His father Greg Newman raced and spotted for him; Ryan was born and raised in South Bend, graduated from Purdue in vehicle structural engineering, won the Daytona 500 in 2008 and the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis in 2013 — the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's own account calls him "a native of South Bend" and notes he and Tony Stewart of Columbus are the only Indiana-born winners of the NASCAR race at the Brickyard. The family succession is real and it is South Bend's: grandfather a builder of the quarter-mile, father a racer, son a Daytona and Brickyard winner. No record reached places Ryan Newman, his father or his grandfather in Granger — no birth, raising, residence or schooling on this ground — and the tie is graded accordingly: South Bend, entire; Granger, none.

The other home name of his year: David Andrew Stremme (born 19 June 1977, South Bend — six months Newman's senior, the "other home name of his year" in the audit's phrase) came out of the same short-track world: a racing family (his great-uncle raced in the 1950s; his father, mother and brother all raced), a first stock-car win at New Paris Speedway in the early 1990s in his mother's street stock, the Stremme family named among the South Bend Motor Speedway's own roll of racers, then the 2002 ASA National Tour Rookie of the Year award, the 2003 NASCAR Busch Series Rookie of the Year award, and Cup drives for Chip Ganassi Racing and Penske Racing; he later founded the Lethal Chassis modified-building business and resides in North Carolina. His tie, graded exactly as Newman's: born South Bend, raised on the Michiana short tracks, no Granger birth, residence or schooling in any record reached. Granger's one world-champion racer remains the pigeon racer Mike Ganus, carried whole in the banked People leg; he is not this line, and this line has no Granger name to set beside him.

Sources:

1. NBC Sports, NASCAR America, 16–17 August 2017 (Newman's grandfather statement, quoted); Indianapolis Motor Speedway news, 30 July 2013 (South Bend native; Brickyard win); SPEED SPORT, "South Bend Motor Speedway's The Last Lap," 27 May 2024 (the Stremme family in the track's roll); Team Penske and Toledo Speedway driver records for David Stremme (born South Bend, 19 June 1977; ASA and Busch rookie awards; family racing background).