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CUP: Kyle Busch Hunts Second Triple
Kyle Busch swept all three races at Bristol in August...
Kyle Busch is winless in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Texas Motor Speedway. (Photo: LAT Photographic)
Three seems to be the magic number at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend.
Three races.
Three NASCAR series.
Three drivers contending for a Sprint Cup championship.
For Kyle Busch, though, this weekend is about two as well as three.
Because if Busch sweeps the NASCAR Camping World Truck, Nationwide and Sprint Cup series races at Texas Friday, Saturday and Sunday, it will be just the second time a single driver has won races in all three of NASCAR’s top divisions at the same track in the same weekend.
Busch, of course, knows all about that, given that he was the one who did the first time, at Bristol Motor Speedway in August.
He’s already come close to doing it here before.
Last year at Texas, Busch won the Truck and NNS races and nearly won the Cup race, too. He led 232 of 334 laps around the 1.5-mile track, but unfortunately for Busch, he ran out of gas three laps before the end of the race, and the prize goes to the leader after 500 miles, not 495.5.
This time around, Busch figures to be strong in all three series again. In 13 Truck Series starts so far this year, Busch has six victories. While in the Nationwide Series, he has a series-record 12 victories in just 26 starts. He also has won a record five consecutive Nationwide Series races at Texas.
Realistically, Busch’s toughest challenges to a tripleheader repeat likely will be in the Sprint Cup Series, where he’s winless at TMS, although he has scored top-five finishes in four of the last eight races.
Regardless, Busch is excited about the possibility of putting on a show in one of NASCAR’s biggest venues.
“I would like to try and win all three again, for sure. I set out to do that every weekend, but that’s not an easy thing to accomplish,” said Busch. “The Nationwide race, going for six in a row, it’s going to be awfully exciting. I can’t think of a better place than Texas, with (TMS President) Eddie Gossage and all those guys out there who do such a great job with that facility.”
The streak of NNS victories is something particularly special to Busch.
“To get six in a row at that place would be cool,” he said. “Of course, maybe we can get to where we should have been last year in the fall race there and win the triple again. I felt like we had a really good car in the Cup race, too. So we had a shot there and we’re definitely closing in on our first Cup win there with our M&M’s Camry this weekend since we’ve been really competitive the last couple of Cup races there.”
On the Sprint Cup side, Busch his fifth in points, just 23 behind Jeff Gordon. And while he is unlikely to catch the top three drivers — Busch is 192 points behind third-place Kevin Harvick — a fourth-place points finish would be the best of Busch’s career. So he has some incentive to finish the year out on a high note.
“The Nationwide Series wins the last couple of years and getting the win in the Truck Series last year have been real confidence boosters there,” Busch said of racing at Texas. “I have sort of learned how to drive it a little bit better and I know what I need in my race car to make it easier. ... I can’t seem to get that win in Cup that’s eluded me, even though we’ve been close. So, hopefully, that’s something we can change this weekend.”
Tom Jensen is the Editor in Chief of SPEED.com, Senior NASCAR Editor at RACER and a contributing Editor for TruckSeries.com. You can follow him online at twitter.com/tomjensen100 and e-mail him at Jensen is the author of “Cheating: The Bad Things Good NASCAR Nextel Cup Racers Do In Pursuit of Speed,” and has appeared on numerous television and radio shows. Jensen is the past President of the National Motorsports Press Association and an NMPA Writer of the Year.
Three races.
Three NASCAR series.
Three drivers contending for a Sprint Cup championship.
For Kyle Busch, though, this weekend is about two as well as three.
Because if Busch sweeps the NASCAR Camping World Truck, Nationwide and Sprint Cup series races at Texas Friday, Saturday and Sunday, it will be just the second time a single driver has won races in all three of NASCAR’s top divisions at the same track in the same weekend.
Busch, of course, knows all about that, given that he was the one who did the first time, at Bristol Motor Speedway in August.
He’s already come close to doing it here before.
Last year at Texas, Busch won the Truck and NNS races and nearly won the Cup race, too. He led 232 of 334 laps around the 1.5-mile track, but unfortunately for Busch, he ran out of gas three laps before the end of the race, and the prize goes to the leader after 500 miles, not 495.5.
This time around, Busch figures to be strong in all three series again. In 13 Truck Series starts so far this year, Busch has six victories. While in the Nationwide Series, he has a series-record 12 victories in just 26 starts. He also has won a record five consecutive Nationwide Series races at Texas.
Realistically, Busch’s toughest challenges to a tripleheader repeat likely will be in the Sprint Cup Series, where he’s winless at TMS, although he has scored top-five finishes in four of the last eight races.
Regardless, Busch is excited about the possibility of putting on a show in one of NASCAR’s biggest venues.
“I would like to try and win all three again, for sure. I set out to do that every weekend, but that’s not an easy thing to accomplish,” said Busch. “The Nationwide race, going for six in a row, it’s going to be awfully exciting. I can’t think of a better place than Texas, with (TMS President) Eddie Gossage and all those guys out there who do such a great job with that facility.”
The streak of NNS victories is something particularly special to Busch.
“To get six in a row at that place would be cool,” he said. “Of course, maybe we can get to where we should have been last year in the fall race there and win the triple again. I felt like we had a really good car in the Cup race, too. So we had a shot there and we’re definitely closing in on our first Cup win there with our M&M’s Camry this weekend since we’ve been really competitive the last couple of Cup races there.”
On the Sprint Cup side, Busch his fifth in points, just 23 behind Jeff Gordon. And while he is unlikely to catch the top three drivers — Busch is 192 points behind third-place Kevin Harvick — a fourth-place points finish would be the best of Busch’s career. So he has some incentive to finish the year out on a high note.
“The Nationwide Series wins the last couple of years and getting the win in the Truck Series last year have been real confidence boosters there,” Busch said of racing at Texas. “I have sort of learned how to drive it a little bit better and I know what I need in my race car to make it easier. ... I can’t seem to get that win in Cup that’s eluded me, even though we’ve been close. So, hopefully, that’s something we can change this weekend.”
Tom Jensen is the Editor in Chief of SPEED.com, Senior NASCAR Editor at RACER and a contributing Editor for TruckSeries.com. You can follow him online at twitter.com/tomjensen100 and e-mail him at Jensen is the author of “Cheating: The Bad Things Good NASCAR Nextel Cup Racers Do In Pursuit of Speed,” and has appeared on numerous television and radio shows. Jensen is the past President of the National Motorsports Press Association and an NMPA Writer of the Year.
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