NASCAR: Penske Racing’s Success May Rub off on Richard Petty Motorsports in 2013

There's a certain kind of irony in what you come across when you're looking up something else.As I was researching information for another story I'm working on, I happened upon some statistics that gave me pause.Granted, NASCAR is a cyclical sport. One year you're way up, the next year you're potentially way down (if you don't believe that, just ask Carl Edwards about the difference for him between 2011 and 2012).But perhaps more than any other full-time Sprint Cup organization, no other group has suffered such a cataclysmic fall over the years than Petty Enterprises/Richard Petty Motorsports.Team owner and patriarch Richard Petty was indeed The King of NASCAR during much of his own racing career. Not only did he win an incredible 200 races...

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