UPDATE: Stewart going to backup car, Newman to his second

This was the car Tony Stewart had hoped to use in the 51st Daytona 500 — that changed on Saturday after crash in final practice. Photo by Jerry Jordan.

It is said that history is destined to repeat itself and it looks as if that was the case Saturday morning during the final practice for the Sprint Cup Series as a blown tire on Ryan Newman's No. 39 Army Chevrolet blew out causing him to spin and collect teammate and team owner Tony Stewart.

Stewart made the mandatory trip to the infield care center and then headed back to the garage to see just how bad the #14 Office Depot Chevrolet was torn up.

"It was a Goodyear right rear tire failure," Stewart said after the crash. "The same thing everybody has been talking about all week — failures of Goodyear. I guess it part of their marketing technique. The more we talk about them the more press they get but I guess they forgot it's supposed to be in a positive way."

According to a representative from Stewart's PR machine, he will be forced to use the car used in last week's Budweiser Shootout event.

"The 14 is using its Bud Shootout car that finished third," said Mike Arning, Stewart-Haas Racing's Director Public Relations. "It ran in Daytona 2008 with Scott Riggs and in the Fall 2007 race at Talladega. The 39 car is a dedicated superspeedway car that had three test in 2007 and made one Daytona attempt. That was designated as the 14 cars backup in case the 14 wrecked but when the primary car came out of the Shootout unscathed and finishing third we went to it. So, that car will be wrapped and used as the U.S. Army car for the 500 and the 14 will be wrapped in the Office Depot colors."

Arning said the car Newman is now using was originally slated as the "communal backup" for SHR.

As for Stewart's teammate, it will be his second backup car of Daytona Speedweeks after he wrecked in qualifying and then suffered the fate of a blown tire that sent him into the wall and collected Stewart in the process. Newman also blew an engine earlier in the week.