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RYAN MCGEE'S BLOG:NO SMILES AT THE SALE OF PETTY ENTERPRISES

By Ryan McGee

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Last Wednesday I attended a press conference that was the middle stanza of an unexpectedly depressing week, a seven-day stretch so bummed out that not even wins by golden boys Joey Logano and Dale Earnhardt Junior could wash the blahs away. The Petty family gathered the media to announce that they had sold a majority stake in their team to a group of thousand-dollar suit-wearing capitalists known as Boston Ventures. Two days earlier, former NASCAR tech inspector Mauricia Grant filed a $225 m ...

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