Byline: Dustin Long
Oct. 10--Ray Evernham's worst NASCAR season is nearly complete, just as he's starting to see encouraging signs.
A year after Kasey Kahne won a series-high six races, he and teammates Elliott Sadler and Scott Riggs have combined for nine top-10 finishes at Gillett Evernham Motorsports.
"It's killing me," Evernham said of his team's performance. "You've got two choices. You can go under the covers and cry ... or work hard and fix it. That doesn't mean it's easy to stomach. It's embarrassing."
Mistakes were made.
"The biggest thing is we underestimated where we were with the competition," Evernham said.
Some key team members no ...