OH, FOR THE GOOD OLD DAYS; Robert Yates Racing is broken and needs fixing.(Motorsports)

Byline: AL PEARCE Robert Yates used to walk through his race shop and admire the victory lane photos. He always saw smiling faces, energy, excitement, commitment, teamwork and supreme confidence. For his Ford-based NASCAR organization, those were the good old days. In fact, those "old'' days were as recent as last fall.

Today, Robert Yates Racing flounders somewhere between decent and dreadful. Neither Dale Jarrett nor Elliott Sadler is good enough to reach the top 10 and qualify for this fall's 10-race Chase for the Championship. (Together, they have one pole, one top-five ...

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