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Subtract in order to add

By Jerry Bonkowski
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Let's get this out of the way right at the start: I really do like the concept, format and just about everything related to the Nextel All-Star Challenge, formerly known as The Winston. And yet I want to see it, and the preseason Budweiser Shootout and the twin Gatorade 125s, gone. History. Fini. As contradictory as that may sound, let me explain. For as fun and exciting as those four non-points earning events may be, they really have no bearing upon what every driver, crew chief, car owner a ...

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