Did you see it?
The finish of the Sam's Town 300 at the new Las Vegas Motor Speedway was ,another, one to remember. After the red flag caused restart with ten laps to go, Kyle Busch passes Jeff Burton and appears to run away with the race. Burton nearly loses his car but amazingly gathers it up and relentlessly closes on Kyle. They get side by side just short of the finish , rub a little, and Kyle spins and hits the wall.
I waited for the inevitable Busch/NASCAR bitchy driver eruption. Didn't happen. Burton actually drove his car to where Kyle was walking back to the pits and instead of throwing his helmet at Jeff, Kyle shook his hand. The crowd roared it's approval. Then in a quick pit row interview an understandably upset Kyle Busch basically called the incident a racin' deal , nobody's fault, and that was that.
I have not been much of a Busch brother, or for that matter Busch Series, fan in the past. I really like the way Kyle Busch handled this deal. The ABC coverage, especially the touch of class added by Brent Musberger has been major league like. So too have the races. Maybe the timing of the name change to something other than the Busch Series should be moved up. This is no Bush league.
Picture credit Getty Images for NASCAR.
NASCAR has to hope that todays Cup race has the same level of excitment as the last two Busch races. Those were definately two of the best back to back race finishes in years. I do question NASCAR and ESPN/ABC as to why the Mexico race wasn't on ABC a week ago when that was the spotlight race of the week.
Posted by: Steve | March 11, 2007 at 02:33 PM
Maybe, just maybe, it's because no one in this country cares about that race except Illegals and our Congress hasn't figured out a way to furnish big screen tv's to them yet. But rest assured, they will. MIB
Posted by: Man In Black | March 22, 2007 at 01:01 PM