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Owners game

By Jerry Bonkowski
ESPN.com

Tuesday, December 3, 2002

The key to winning the Winston Cup championship is more than just a talented driver with a lead foot and nerves of steel. It's also more than having a crew chief who is always planning calculated pit strategies in search of even the slightest smidgen of advantage over competitors, or a crack pit crew that gets a driver on and off pit road as quick as possible. In theory, a championship team is supposed to be built from the ground up. But in reality, it's built from the top down. The foundatio ...

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