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Monday, January 20
Updated: January 27, 3:07 PM ET

Jerry Nadeau
By Rupen Fofaria
ESPN.com

Team: MB2 Motorsports
Car/sponsor/make: No. 36 U.S. Army Pontiac

Jerry Nadeau
Nadeau

STATS

Year
Rank
Wins
Top 5
Top 10
Best finish

2002 37 0 0 1 8th, Bristol

Career 1 8 18 1st, Atlanta

2002 recap
The good: Jerry Nadeau bounced around from team to team after being let go from Hendrick Motorsports' No. 25 Chevrolet, but he managed to find a seat for 28 races and show enough grit to land a full-time ride this year.

Season highlight: Nadeau's eighth-place finish at the short track of Bristol Motor Speedway was his best result of the season. He led three other races at some point during the season, but this was the only one which translated into a top-10 finish.

The bad: Having just one top-10 finish is the bad. As much as folks thought Nadeau (and Terry Labonte) were getting Jeff Gordon's scraps over at Hendrick Motorsports, Nadeau struggled without the Hendrick backing.

Season lowlight: Nadeau never finished dead last in 2002, but he came close at Dover, where he finished 42nd. Also worth mentioning was the Sonoma, Calif., race, in which Nadeau was leading late in a Petty car and well on his way to his second career win until suffering mechanical problems.

Jerry Nadeau
Nadeau has 18 career top-10 finishes.

2003 outlook
What needs to be done: Nelson Bowers, Read Morton and Tom Beard need to give their driver equipment capable of running up front, then Nadeau needs to show the patience and focus that won him a race in 2000 and should have won him two races in 2001.

Prediction: Nadeau probably won't actually win a race in 2003, but he could finish in the top 25 of the final points standings, which would be a big step for the MB2 program, as well as for Nadeau and crew chief Ryan Pemberton.

Your take
Here are your thoughts on Nadeau's chances for 2003. Will he sink or swim at MB2 Motorsports?

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