By Terry Blount
ESPN.com

I went to see “Alice in Wonderland” on Saturday night. Surprisingly, that theme continued into Sunday afternoon with all the upside-down happenings in the Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta.

And I’m not just talking about Brad Keselowski’s car.

Richard Petty Motorsports had a Hendrick Motorsports kind of day. And the Hendrick boys had a race like the RPM guys experience all too often.

RPM placed three drivers in the top six: Kasey Kahne fourth, Paul Menard fifth and A.J. Allmendinger sixth, Allmendinger’s best finish in a non-restrictor-plate race.

Three in the top six didn’t happen once all last season for RPM, so this is an encouraging sign for the merger with Yates Racing and the new alignment with Ford.

“I think Richard Petty Motorsports is back,” Menard told reporters after the race.

“All of our cars were fast this weekend. It was a lot of fun out there today.”

More…