Elliott Sadler comes up short again, focus shifts to 2013 with JGR

For the second straight year, Elliott Sadler would finish second in the NASCAR Nationwide Series standings, unable to take the crown from Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Sadler was disappointed, though is proud of the positives of the season, including the four wins and four poles. “I really have a lot of respect for this team,” he added. “We’ve got along so well and probably one of the most fun seasons I’ve ever had as a race car driver.  You win some races, you have some peaks and you have some valleys, and we just had a few valleys there coming down the stretch that just kind of took the momentum away from us and where we lost control of the championship.” Between the two seasons, Sadler added that this one hurt more as Sadler held the points lead for the majority of the season. For Sadler, the season began to fall off after a controversial call at Indianapolis. Sadler would beat race leader Brad Keselowski to the line on a restart as Keselowski spun his tires. That is illegal and NASCAR had...