Once-dominant Yates Racing fighting for survival

Once-dominant Yates Racing fighting for survival
The name Yates used to mean royalty in NASCAR. A dominant operation that others tried to catch, the race team reached its high when Dale Jarrett won the 1999 Cup championship. So it was striking Thursday when Doug Yates, who took over the operation from father Robert in the offseason, sat in a wing of Roush Fenway Racing's giant complex and talked about how lean his operation could be, and whether he could get through the season without a primary sponsorship for either of his Sprint Cup cars.