Kyle Busch a Gallon Short at Texas

by Steve Wronkowicz

I am co-host of the syndicated radio show: ON PIT ROW. Charlie likes to call me an "idiot". I'm not an "idiot"; I just prefer not to let the facts get in the way of my opinions.

November 8, 2009 10:59 pm CST 2 Comments

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In a season that started so promising for Kyle Busch; the thought of saving some face, after not making The Chase was a real possibility if he could pull off the triple at Texas.

Rowdy won the first two races this weekend at The Great American Speedway; dominating both the Camping World Truck race on Friday and the Nationwide race on Saturday. He set himself up to do something that has never been done before in NASCAR. It seems almost impossible to think that the feat has never been done, but Kyle had the fans believing that it would happen on this warm November day.

Leading 232 of the 334 laps at times it looked the the days before; Busch would have his way with the rest of the field. He was toying with the other competitors at times and it seemed that victory was imminent until The Dickies 500 turned into a fuel mileage race and Rowdy wasn’t going to have enough. “Three laps short” was the call to Rowdy over the radio and for the want of about a gallon of racing fuel went his trip to the record books.

The driver who was there to pick up the win was the other Busch; Kurt who took his Miller Lite Dodge to the win by running the last 120 laps on only two stops for fuel. He has this to say about racing his brother for the win:

It’s bittersweet to beat Kyle. He was going for the sweep. We took it away from him. I don’t think he could have picked a better driver to lose to tonight. So it’s fun. It’s really fun. We race each other to the bone, but we pat each other on the back at the end of the day.

So Kyle will have to wait to have a shot to take the triple again. That, and only that could be what turns a season of high hopes and disappointment into something to remember.

Photo credit: BethAnne Heisler/ON PIT ROW

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2 Responses to “Kyle Busch a Gallon Short at Texas”

don on November 9th, 2009 4:23 pm

I guess I don’t get it, In the history of nascar(all 62 years of it) no one has won all three races on the same weekend. So can Kyle do it? The bigger question is, how long has there been three races on the same weekend? Richaed never did it, David P. never did it, nor Bobby, Buck, Dale, or even Million Dollar Bill could do it. So would that make Kyle better than them?
So why don’t we call it the way it is? In the last, what, seven years since the truck series has been running, no one has done it. That is a much more realistic statement of the facts. And don’t you think, that if Richard had the chance to run three races in a weekend, He would win them all. David wouldn’t of course. No way would he even run them if he had the chance. Heck He wouldn’t even run a full season, except two or three times. So let’s give up that in the “history of nascar talk”. And say it as it is, “in the last seven years, no one has done it”.

Don
Steve Wronkowicz on November 9th, 2009 11:15 pm

Don–

Thanks for the comment. I don’t disagree with your logic. Only a select number of drivers have had the opportunity to do The Triple (three top series, same track, same weekend). If NASCAR had had three series “back in the day” it may have been done by any one of the guys you mentioned.

Richard probably won three races in a week multiple times and could have done the deed if given the opportunity; but there weren’t three separate series when he was winning all his races and there weren’t three races at the same venue in the same weekend. Its hard to believe that the truck series has been around since 1995, so fifteen years worth of opportunities have not produced a triple winner. I think that is a large enough sampling to give legitimacy to my “in the history of NASCAR” statement.

Baseball doesn’t diminish modern playoff record holders just because they have had two or three rounds of playoffs per year instead of just the World Series.

It will always be hard to compare eras and different circumstances–but it sure is a helluva lot of fun.

Keep the comments coming.

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