The Kyle Busch that racked up 100 NASCAR national series victories in record time is back – and how.
Busch won his second NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race of the season at Texas Motor Speedway, advanced to third in points and tossed in a NASCAR Nationwide Series victory for good measure – a record fourth win in the NNS season’s first six races.
Will Kansas Speedway’s STP 400 extend Busch’s string of five top-five finishes? Good question. Busch has yet to finish higher than seventh in a Cup car at the 1.5-mile track. His Driver Rating is an anemic 81.8; 15th among current drivers. He’s also set to compete in Saturday’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series SFP 250.
Speed and the Gen-6 car share the spotlight in mid-America, where NASCAR’s "new car" competes on back-to-back intermediate tracks for the first time. Repaving the 1.5-mile track after its spring race resulted in every qualifier breaking the track record last fall.
Four drivers have two victories apiece in America’s heartland. Points leader Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Greg Biffle and Tony Stewart bid to become the first competitor to annex a third win.
Martin Truex Jr. finished second in both 2012 Kansas Speedway races – and again last weekend in Texas. The driver of the No. 56 Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota would like to end a winless streak that reached 210 races last Saturday night.
With the NASCAR Nationwide Series taking a one-week break, drivers and teams have time to digest a significantly compressed points picture – the result of leader Sam Hornish Jr.’s accident and 34th-place finish at Texas Motor Speedway. Hornish continues as the leader but by just two points over David Ragan.
NASCAR Camping World Truck teams test Kansas Speedway’s new surface for the first time in Saturday’s SFP 250. There have been no repeat winners in 12 races at the track. Four previous winners are among the entries: reigning series champion James Buescher (2012), Johnny Sauter (2010), Ron Hornaday Jr. (2008) and Todd Bodine (2005).
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