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Addition of Richert to BDR stable pumps life back into No. 5 Toyota

By John Schwarb
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, September 25, 2008

AP Photo/Reed Saxon Doug Richert, left, was only 20 when he served as crew chief for Dale Earnhardt's title season in 1980. Richert, Skinner combine to make No. 5 Toyota a factor again A crew chief will tell you it is a helpless feeling, those final few laps of a race when it's all in the driver's hands to win or lose. He has done all he can do during the course of the event as far as adjustments and strategy. But in the final laps, he's a spectator. Or, in Doug Richert's case Sat ...

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