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I was hoping Kurt Busch would win in Las Vegas, my old hometown, but instead he won at Atlanta Motor Speedway, my new home track.

Kurt Busch won two races Sunday: the Kobalt Tools 500 and the Carl Edwards 25.

In a race that went 16 laps — nearly 25 miles — past its scheduled distance, after Edwards retaliated against Brad Keselowski for an incident earlier in Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Busch took advantage of a strong restart to grab the lead during the second attempt at a green-white-checkered and crossed the finish line .482 seconds ahead of runner-up Matt Kenseth.

Congrats Kurt!

Being a Vegas boy myself, I look forward to seeing Kurt race tomorrow. I hope he pulls off the win too.

Kurt Busch visited Victory Lane last year at his home track.

He was there to congratulate his little brother, Kyle, who became the first Busch brother to win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

He wants his own party this year.

Kurt Busch shattered his brother’s track record Friday with a pole-winning role at Las Vegas, the track he and Kyle Busch consider to be among the most important on the series. The Las Vegas natives watched construction of the track, hopeful to one day get a chance to race there – and maybe even win.

This week’s race in Atlanta was definitely a good one. It’s nice to see competition back on the track. It doesn’t hurt that one of my guys won too.

The other Busch showed his kid brother a thing or two.

Kurt Busch, a former NASCAR Cup champion who’s been overshadowed lately by his sibling Kyle, drove to a dominating victory Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

The 30-year-old Busch led 235 of 330 laps in the Kobalt Tools 500, surviving a couple of scrapes with the wall and a late caution to pull away for a 0.332-second victory over Jeff Gordon.

Congratulations Kurt!

Will Kyle Busch repeat? I’d rather see a few different people cross that finish line first.

Kyle Busch looks to keep his momentum going as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series makes it way to Atlanta Motor Speedway for Sunday’s Kobalt Tools 500.

Fresh off winning his first race of the season at his hometown track in Las Vegas, Busch now takes aim at repeating on this 1.54-mile oval, which has become a special place for the Joe Gibbs Racing driver.

Last March, Busch’s victory at AMS was the first for Toyota in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It also marked the first of his eight wins during the 2008 season.

Once again, I am looking forward to the race this week.

Is it any surprise that the Busch brothers would dominate on their home track? Maybe Kurt can turn that dominance into a win too.

It was brotherly love, briefly, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Kyle Busch and Kurt Busch became the first brothers since 2000 to sweep the front row in qualifying for a NASCAR race, but Kyle Busch’s blown motor will prevent the Las Vegas drivers from starting next to each other at their home track.

Kyle Busch blew a motor in his Toyota during Friday’s practice session, changed the engine, then ran a pole-winning lap of 185.995 mph to knock his big brother off the pole. Kurt Busch ran a lap at 185.707 mph.

Believe it or not, I am actually looking forward to the race this weekend.

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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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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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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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.

Congratulations, Kurt!

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.