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AH, YOUTH; The young guns made their mark in the '03 Cup season.
Byline: AL PEARCE
There can be little doubt 2003 marked the long-anticipated changing of the NASCAR guard. Alas, as the late Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw so famously penned, "Youth is wasted on the young.''
Talk about youth.
The series champion- with one win, no less-has been a full-time Winston Cup driver for all of four years. Matt Kenseth, a youngish 31, thus tied Tony Stewart for second-quickest behind the late Dale Earnhardt (one full season) to reach the title after his rookie year.
The series runner-up has now run two full seasons. Jimmie Johnson, 28, is among the talented and marketable 20-something gang that figures to be around big-time stock car racing long after Nextel has come and gone.
The third driver in this year's points has been full-time in Cup for only four seasons. At 29, Dale Earnhardt Jr. is the star upon which Brian France and Mike Helton are hanging so much of NASCAR's future. Looking for a demographics magnet? Look no further than those shades, backward Bud cap and funky attitude. And you wonder why the networks keep showing Junior doing damn near anything during those broadcasts.
By now, this "changing of the guard'' theme should be clear: Six of the top-10 in the final standings have been full-time in Cup for five seasons or less. They include Kenseth, Johnson and Earnhardt Jr., plus fifth-ranked Kevin Harvick, sixth-ranked Ryan Newman and seventh-ranked Stewart. The exceptions: fourth-ranked Jeff Gordon (11 full seasons), and eighth-through-10th Bobby Labonte (11), Bill Elliott (21) and Terry Labonte (25).
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