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Perhaps 2001 should be remembered as the year of the owner in NASCAR. Even though drivers still made the majority of the headlines, it is difficult to remember another season during which so many owners, some faced with unusually trying circumstances, played significant roles in guiding their organizations to higher levels.
I'm not ready to concede that Winston Cup will begin to mirror CART's egocentric hierarchy in which owners are at the forefront and drivers often are an afterthought. But as NASCAR moves more in the direction of nothing but multicar conglomerates, it will be the captains who keep their ships afloat or sink them.
Rick Hendrick has set ...