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Just hours before Ryan Newman scored Dodge's first victory of the season last Sunday at Texas, three of the manufacturer's bigwigs huddled with Mike Helton in the NASCAR trailer.
Helton, NASCAR's president, can pull many strings. But unless he gave Tony Stewart's impounded Chevrolet to Newman and told the team to hang Dodge sheet metal on it--this is NASCAR, it could happen--the fact the No. 12 wound up in victory lane simply was coincidence.
It couldn't have come at a better time.
A little more than two weeks ago, before the race at Bristol, Dieter Zetsche assembled the Dodge teams for a pithy meeting at corporate headquarters. Zetsche, the ...