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It’s looking more and more as if the only one who can stop Kyle Busch from winning the Sprint Cup title this season is Kyle Busch. He was the class of the field Saturday night, leading 169 of 367 laps -- despite receiving a pit-road penalty for a loose lug nut early in the race. Busch, 23, remained atop the Sprint Cup points standings after his third win of the season and seventh of his career. …
Busch turned Darlington into Whine Country in the early stages of the race as he constantly complained about how his car was handling. After marching from 23rd place to the lead after the penalty, Busch finally clammed up. …
Busch should have been complaining about the outside of his car; the “Indiana Jones” special paint scheme was as gaudy as his matching fire suit. …
On the other hand, the Mountain Dew throwback paint scheme on Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s car was outstanding. It was far better than either the Amp Energy Drink or National Guard paint schemes that normally adorn the No. 88 Chevy. …
Even though the recent repaving job at Darlington Raceway resulted in a lot of single-file racing, I’d still rather see two races at Darlington each year instead of two at California Speedway. …
I’ll bet Sam Hornish Jr., who seemingly spent the entire race using the outside wall to scrape the decals off of the side of his No. 77 Dodge, wishes he was turning laps at Indianapolis on Saturday instead of Darlington. …
Speaking of Dodge, Kurt Busch, in 12th place, was the highest-finishing Dodge driver on Saturday. There is not a Dodge driver among the top 12 in Sprint Cup points after 11 races. …
Everyone keeps talking about Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s losing streak, which reached 73 races, but his winless streak pales in comparison to these active drivers whose losing streaks are in triple digits:
Ken Schrader, 544 races
Kyle Petty, 422 races
John Andretti, 214 races
Sterling Marlin, 195 races
Robby Gordon, 168 races
Michael Waltrip, 160 races
Bobby Labonte, 155 races
Elliott Sadler, 130 races
Joe Nemechek, 121 races
Everybody talks about Earnhardt's losing streak much in the way they everyone talks about how awful the Knicks have been for the last 9 years. Spotlight = amplification of failure.
Plus, the only reason Kyle Petty's racing is because of his dad. Oh... wait...
Earnhardt's losing streak is just as long as his not winning streak, poor baby.
I like Kyle Petty (as a human being), but I really think he should hang it up, he's useless in a racecar!
Dodge, ---- "Forget about it" Long live the Shrub!!
All the booing Kyle got was like pouring gas on a campfire. The kid is amazing and fun to watch!!
Somebody remind me what the point of nascar is again - to see who can go round and round in circles and use up fossil fuels most quickly? Something like that?
Good Gad, mikeg again!
Why would I want to remind you? You're obviously a little slow anyhow. Long live golf, or is it synchronized swimming?
You of course ride your bicycle across the country to visit people in other states, right? No? Wow, you walk!! Good going dude, you're my hero!
MikeG - Roughly 6,000 gallons of fuel were burned by NASCAR this weekend.
By comparison, every day, cars burn about 60,000 gallons of fuel on I-15 between the Russell and US 95.
And the Lakers' team charter burned about 2,800 gallons of fuel for the round trip from L.A. to Salt Lake. Should we ban the NBA playoffs too?
And I don't even want to know how much fuel is going to be burned transporting our athletes in planes to the Olympics.