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<div>] ARTICLE by Pete Pistone @ MRN - previews the RCR team for the upcoming 2013 season, we summarize,</div>
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]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.motorracingnetwork.com/Race-Series/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup/News/Articles/2013/02/Team-Preview-Richard-Childress-Racing.aspx" target="_blank">RCR Team Preview 2013</a>
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<li>] Richard Childress(owner)</li>
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<li>] "We know we've got to do our work here," team owner Childress said. "We've got to get our cars better, we've got to get our handling better, got to get to running better."&nbsp;We&rsquo;ve got a good lineup,&rdquo; &ldquo;The tests we&rsquo;ve had, I&rsquo;m really pleased with what we&rsquo;ve seen. Hopefully, when we put it all together, it will be what we expect for this year.&rdquo;&nbsp;</li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="person?id=149#content" target="_blank">Kevin Harvick</a>,&nbsp;8th last year,&nbsp;</li>
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<li>possibly a lame duck season for driver Harvick who is set to depart RCR at year end for Stewart-Haas racing. Remains paired with crew cheif gil martin and hopes to build upon successful finish to last season(phoenix victory).&nbsp;</li>
<li>HARVICK "Regardless of what happens on the business side of things, Richard Childress and myself will always be friends," said Harvick. "We may agree to disagree, but we still have a lot of racing left to do, and we owe it to our sponsors and our company to go out and race hard."&nbsp;</li>
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<li>] dr eric warren&nbsp;brought in as NEW&nbsp;competition director,&nbsp;replacing Scott Miller (now at MWR) who departed at the beginning of 2013</li>
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<li>] WARREN Now it's all about putting a system into place that everybody buys into to lead everybody on a day-to-day basis and hopefully make things better."&nbsp;</li>
<li>] seeing improvements alread - &nbsp;built a method of preparing and trying to look at the teams separately to kind of develop ideas and bring them all together when it counts, when the season starts,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve had two successful tests . . . We&rsquo;ve got high expectations and I look forward to bringing that to reality.&rdquo;&nbsp;</li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="person?id=150#content" target="_blank">Jeff Burton</a>, 19th last year,&nbsp;</li>
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<li>] rumours about his retirement, DENIED, his 20th season, needs to improve&nbsp;</li>
<li>] BURTON&nbsp;"When you're in your 20th year and people are talking about you being replaced, it is not the position you want to be in,&rdquo;&nbsp;"When you've put in as much as I've put into it and it means as much as it means to me, you want everybody saying, 'That's a driving son of a [gun].' "&nbsp;We&rsquo;re as prepared as we can be,&rdquo; &ldquo;Obviously, everybody is behind. There is a lot of energy around here; there&rsquo;s an enthusiasm &ndash; you can feel it.&rdquo;&nbsp;</li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="person?id=151#content" target="_blank">Paul Menard</a>, 17th last year,&nbsp;</li>
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<li>] also struggled last year, back with crew chief sluggerLabbe</li>
<li>] MENARD&nbsp;&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t accomplish what we were after last season that&rsquo;s for sure,&rdquo; &ldquo;It will be nice to set the restart button and we&rsquo;re confident things will change for the better this year.&rdquo;</li>
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