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Short-track mind

By Ryan McGee
ESPN The Magazine

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

In the midst of NASCAR's continuing economic slowdown, race teams and racetracks have discovered that the best way to survive for the future is to turn back the clock to when the sport wasn't the billion-dollar juggernaut it's become in recent years. "I think we all got a little too comfortable when times got a little too good," says six-time Cup champion car owner Richard Childress, who fielded his first Cup car in 1969 -- a car he built and drove himself. "Now that there's not as much mone ...

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