26 races, thousands of laps, heart break and triumph and NASCAR has reached the end of its regular season with a real humdinger at Richmond. While the Chase was on everybody’s mind leading up to this weekend’s race, wouldn’t you know it we had bigger news. Richard Petty Motorsports announced Friday they had signed a letter of intent to merge with Yates Racing in 2010. The combined organization will utilize Yates’ Ford power, and will bring together Kasey Kahne, Elliott Sadler, AJ Allmendinger and Paul Menard. This means Reed Sorenson is the odd man out, though he has said he was told several weeks ago that he would not be back with RPM for 2010. In other news, Pat Tryson announced he would be leaving Penske Racing and Kurt Busch after the 2009 season. Tryson is believed to be heading to Michael Waltrip Racing to crew chief for Martin Truex Jr. And finally in the final race before the Chase, Brian Vickers knocked out Matt Kenseth and held back Kyle Busch to become the final driver locked into the fight for the Sprint Cup. This is the NASCAR week that was September 6 to 12, 2009.

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