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You know you're over the hill when ...

... you're no longer a Young Gun.

We got the new lineup from the razor company today:
In: Carl Edwards, Jamie McMurray
Out: Matt Kenseth, Mark Martin.

Kidding. Actually, Kenseth (turns 34 in March) and Kevin Harvick (turned 30 in December) have aged out of the little marketing clique.

Edwards (26) and McMurray (29) will join Junior (31), Jimmie Johnson (30), Kurt Busch (27) and Ryan Newman (28) in a series of commercials that will be start at Saturday's Bud Shootout and will cease to be clever or interesting by the first round of full-field pit stops at the 500.

Those numbers in parentheses, btw, are their ages, not their number of wins. In Johnson's case, you'd at least be close. But McMurray? You'd miss by 28.

Speaking of which, 310 hours to go till the start of the 500. Tick tock ...

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