Kurt Busch Wins At Loudon
It’s been quite a while since Kurt Busch visited Victory Lane. I wish the race would have run the full length, and I wish he would have won it by actually racing, but congratulations Kurt.
Heavy rain did not dampen Kurt Busch’s day at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Busch captured his first checkered flag of the season Sunday, winning the rain-shortened NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Lenox Industrial Tools 301.
It was the 18th career victory and the first since last August 21 for Busch, who ended a drought of 29 consecutive starts without a visit to Victory Lane.
Now, if we can just get the Rocketman back into Victory Lane, life will be good again.
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Ryan Newman Wins The Daytona 500
Wow. All I can say is wow.
I have been a fan of Ryan Newman’s for so long, and I always want him to do good, but I never thought he was going to win the Daytona 500 today.
With all the talk about Hendrick Motorsports, and then Joe Gibbs Racing, I thought for sure one of the seven drivers from one of those teams would have pulled it off. Tony Stewart almost did. Kyle Busch almost did too.
But the story of the day is that my two favorite drivers, Ryan Newman and Kurt Busch, ended up first and second. What an amazing day!
For the second straight year, The Great American Race came down to the last lap. This time the drama rewarded Ryan Newman, who hadn’t won in 81 races over more than two years, and team owner Roger Penske, long the king at Indianapolis but never a winner at Daytona.
Newman waited while the big stars fell back one by one. Then, with only Tony Stewart ahead of him, Newman got a ”push from heaven” from teammate Kurt Busch to take the lead on the final lap.
”Kurt was the push from heaven that made it all happen,” Newman said. ”Without a doubt, he could have easily gone three-wide and split us through the center and made one heck of a mess there. But he chose to be a teammate, and that was the most honorable thing that he could do.”
It was great to see Kurt Busch working for the team too!
I wonder how the guys at Sprint felt seeing that Alltel logo for the last part of the face and parading around victory lane? Ha!
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Busch & Stewart On Probation
I guess it’s safe to say that Tony decked Kurt in the trailer, else why would he get probation as well?
NASCAR placed drivers Kurt Busch and Tony Stewart on probation for six races Tuesday, beginning with the Daytona 500. The punishment stems from a confrontation between the two former series champions, who wrecked in practice last week and then carried it into the NASCAR officials’ trailer.
While nobody involved in the incident would confirm that Stewart actually punched Busch during a meeting with officials, as is widely believed, NASCAR vice president of competition Robin Pemberton inferred that Busch’s penalty was for what happened on the track and Stewart’s was for what happened afterward.
“The accident was a racing incident,” Pemberton said. “How they conducted themselves after that, after the accident and coming onto pit road and from there through the rest of the evening is why the penalties were equal.”
I wonder how penalties are going to come down this year? It’s been so quiet we really have no idea yet.
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Kurt Busch Wins At Michigan
The first ever Tuesday race in NASCAR’s modern era.
Kurt Busch is staying out of trouble these days, no longer making waves as a NASCAR bad boy.
After Busch won for the second time in three races, prevailing in a rare Tuesday NASCAR event after two days of rain postponements at Michigan International Speedway, he gave most of the credit for the change of attitude to team owner Roger Penske.
”Working under Roger, finding his ways and how to deal with people, whether it’s internally or with our sponsors, it really gave me a better perspective what this racing thing is all about,” said Busch, who joined Penske Racing in 2005, replacing longtime star Rusty Wallace in the team’s No. 2 Dodge.
Dale Jr. Captures Pocono Pole
My oldest son sure is happy today.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. ended a stretch of nearly five years without qualifying in first thanks in part to a well-timed rain shower.
Earnhardt won his first pole since September 2002 with a lap of 169.975 mph and took the top spot Friday at Pocono Raceway, a huge benefit for a driver clinging to the final spot in the Chase.
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His lap after a 45-minute rain delay nudged Kurt Busch into second with a lap of 169.863 and Kyle Busch was third at 169.782. Earnhardt guessed his car would have qualified between fifth and 12th had it not rained.
Congratulations to Dale, Jr. Of course, with Kurt right next to him, he better watch out. Busch is ripe for a win as well.