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10 years after: the points race isn't as tight as it was in 1992, but--like in '92--a new generation of drivers is taking over at the top. (NASCAR).
Richard Petty scrunched up his face for a moment, underneath his wrap-around shades and the black cowboy hat blossoming with a spray of feathers. He wanted to make sure he got the words right as he recollected the clever benediction to his career.
"You'd like to go out in a blaze of glory," Petty said. "I just went out in a blaze. Wasn't a whole lot of glory involved."
Petty was repeating the words he uttered 10 years ago, when he drove his final NASCAR race. That was a breezy fall afternoon--November 15, 1992--at Atlanta Motor Speedway. There was a palpable sense of history that day but nothing to indicate it would live as one of the most significant ...
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