--(Cont'd From Front Page)-- In the final year of his current contract with Penske Racing, Newman won the season-opening Daytona 500 but has slipped to 16th in the Sprint Cup championship standings, 185 points behind 12th-place Tony Stewart, the driver who might be Newman's boss next year.

Newman acknowledges that Stewart-Haas Racing, the formation of which Stewart announced Thursday, is an option for 2009.

"Driving for Tony's team is an option," Newman said Saturday before the Lifelock.com 400 at Chicagoland Speedway. "He's got an open seat. Obviously, you guys (reporters) marked me as a lead candidate to get in there, so it is an option."

Newman said emphatically, however, that he has not made a decision and that he will continue talks with current owner Roger Penske.

"I talked to Roger a little bit this week," Newman said. "I talked to him a little bit last week. We're still working on performance. We're working on a lot of things. It's just a matter of when we're going to decide to move on or part ways, if that does happen."

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