Kyle Busch dominated all day in the Food City 250 at Bristol, leading the most laps but ended up bullying his way to the win. On lap 218 Busch and Brad Keselowski were battling door to door for the lead. Busch attempted to make a pass on leader Brad Keselowski but didn’t have him cleared. With no where to go, Keselowski ended up tapping Busch in the rear resulting in Busch brushing the wall. Busch recovered only to come back and dump Keselowski sending him spinning.
When asked if he thought Busch took advantage of the fact the he was on probation, Keselowski said, “Yes, absolutely. I have my hands tied behind my back, but I’m not gonna complain about it. We’re just gonna go to work, win races and win them the right way.”
Busch admitted he spun Keselowski on purpose.
“I thought I had him cleared on the back, and I moved up in front of him, and instead of him doing an Earnhardt crossover move, he just decided that he would run into the back of me and put me in the fence,” Busch said. “That’s Brad Keselowski. So I went into the next corner and dumped him. He does it to everybody else. Why can’t I do it to him?”
On lap 82 Kasey Kahne did he best impression of Fred Flinstone after he was 3 wide with Allgaier and Trevor Bayne and ended up riding a quarter of the way around the track with his right-side tires riding the wall.
On lap 117 Ryan Newman pounded the wall in turns one and two. Perhaps he was just racing too hard on every lap?! (reference to Joey Logano comments last week..ha ha!)
Elliott Sadler driving the Kevin Harvick Inc #33 Rheem Machine finished third and ran strong all race. Dale Earnhardt Jr. in his own Jr Motor Sports 88 car rallied from being a lap down to finish fourth. It always seems that Junior runs really good when Pops is his crew chief.
Up and coming superstar Trevor Bayne ran great again today. He was able to pull out a sixth place finish after battling an ill handling car all day. Look for big things from this kid.
Overall, a very entertaining race, but short track races are the best! It would do the series good if NASCAR would schedule about 14 short track races a year. With short tracks, the cars are all bunched up which results in a lot of passing, side by side action and lead lap cars having to contend with lapped cars. It’s also relate-able to every day fans that support their local short tracks. And most of all, that’s my kind of racin’!
