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Article: Baby-faced crew chief has Jeff Gordon on track for another title.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2007
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Byline: Ed Hinton
ORLANDO, Fla. _ Jeff Gordon is flying again through NASCAR like the "Wonder Boy" of a decade ago, running away in the Nextel Cup points standings, winning or nearly winning every Sunday lately _ and still gaining momentum.
Why?
Steve Letarte.
That's it. That's everything, embodied in one deceptively baby-faced New Englander who just turned 28 and doesn't even look his age.
How good is Letarte as a crew chief?
"Better than I was," says Ray Evernham, widely deemed the best there has been in NASCAR. Until lately.