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In Richmond's case? Absolutely.
>Spend most of your career on mid tier if not backmarker teams
>Finally get a good ride with a team looking to contend and the money to back it up
>Have your best season and things are finally looking up to link your talent with a car that can handle it
And then he got pozzed, drove a few more races in 87 then was never allowed to drive again, died 2 years later. And cause of the stigma of the disease at the time he could never say what it was. So the entire garage and nascar themselves thought he was a junkie. Absolute cursed end to a great driver. Whores come and go but a championship drive is once in a lifetime.