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Aftermath, Montreal: The Story Of How Little RAB Racing Beat The Big Guys
Caught in the Catchfence™
“Honestly, if I didn’t have the people I have, I probably would have walked away from this a couple months ago,” he said then. “It’s been tough.”
The balance sheet and the sport hadn’t been kind to Benton, 31, and his team. With the organization not daring to look any further ahead than a few weeks at a time, RAB desperately needed some sort of good news to keep going.
On Sunday, the news was better than good.
It was improbable, incredible and inconceivable, all at once.
Robby Benton and RAB Racing found themselves in a place beyond where even the team owner had dared to dream: Victory Lane.
Boris Said’s thrilling side-by-side race to the Montreal finish line with Max Papis resulted in the first-ever win for RAB and gave the youngest Nationwide Series team owner the kind of moment that makes everything worth it.
And for Benton, that’s saying a lot.
If Robby Benton had his way, he wouldn’t have made it to Victory Lane as an owner, but a driver. From 2000-03, Benton tried coming up through the ranks of stock-car racing, attempting starts in ARCA, Trucks and the then-Busch Series while also test-driving a Cup car for Robert Yates Racing.
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This is great news– we love to see the small teams do well.
Let us hope that more of this can happen and money does not do
all the talking over talent.