...competitive and the car company needed to focus on strengthening sales of its passenger cars. It returned in 2001 with Ray Evernham Motorsports and it's won 55 races since. Penske moved from Ford to Dodge in 2009 and won 14 races in the last four...

...Jeff Gordon's team, there are more questions than answers heading into the 2000 season. Longtime mentor and adviser Ray Evernham is gone, heading his own team and developing Dodge's new Intrepid for Winston Cup competition in 2001. Five of the...

...to week and we know we'll be able to get back to where we want to be.'' Things haven't looked the same since Ray Evernham, Gordon's longtime mentor and Hendrick team crew chief, left last fall to head Dodge's return to NASCAR. Then...

...closing the shop after this season so he can drive for Ray Evernham's Dodge team in 2001. The merger allows the veteran...Elliott said. ''I'm going to work for a great guy in Ray Evernham next year. I'm looking forward to that already...

...sense of humor. So, just for fun, the 19-year-old racer pretended to slip off the ladder. Perhaps car owner Ray Evernham has found The Next Kid. ''I was just goofing around, trying to get a laugh,'' Atwood said with a shy smile...

...must live with talk that at 28 he's now just another good driver, that he hasn't been the same since crew chief Ray Evernham left in September to start his own team next year. Together, they won three series championships, and Evernham called...

...fast enough to get out of their own way. On Saturday, the first day speeds really became important, Dodge chieftain Ray Evernham turned his troops loose and the new Intrepids took over Daytona International Speedway. Former 500 winner Bill Elliott...

...surprised, though. The new Dodge effort is led by Ray Evernham, the former master crew chief selected by DaimlerChrysler...his qualifying race, agreed with Wallace. "You give Ray Evernham and those guys our car as a starting point and let them...

...don't want to ever own one of these deals again," said Elliott, who wound up selling his 6-year-old team to Ray Evernham and jumping into one of his new Dodges. The change of scenery has been good for Elliott, the circuit's most popular...

...skills on the track. "Jeff has always been mature far beyond his years," team owner Rick Hendrick says. "But since Ray (Evernham, former crew chief) left and we formed our partnership, he's taken a much more active role in running the team...