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Kyle Busch vs Darrell Waltrip: NASCAR’s 64 Greatest Drivers Match Up

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by Charlie Turner

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March 21, 2009 2:35 pm EDT 7 Comments

How about this one: Jaws against the Shrub. One of NASCAR’s all-time greats against a youngster that some think is the best on the Sprint Cup Series circuit today. A round One super match in the NASCAR 64 Greatest Drivers Tournament at Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie.

Kyle Busch. Some call him the Shrub or Rowdy. Many are less kind. But the kid can drive. He won 21 times in NASCAR’s top three divisions in 2008 alone. Think about that. In his Sprint Cup career, Kyle has 13 wins, 47 top fives and 72 top tens in 150 starts. Busch was Raybestos Rookie of the Year in ‘05 and his best finish is 5th in series points.

Darrell Waltrip is a three-time Winston Cup Series champion - ‘81, ‘82 and ‘85. In the 61 races run during ‘81 and ‘82, he won 24 times. Waltrip finished with 84 Cup victories ( tied for 3rd all-time) in 809 starts and qualified on the pole 59 times. And he made boogity, boogity, boogity famous. Or infamous.

I’m looking forward to this one. These two guys bring out more fire - and a fair amount of it is negative - in comments on this blog than any other subjects. Leave us your comments.

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7 Responses to “Kyle Busch vs Darrell Waltrip: NASCAR’s 64 Greatest Drivers Match Up”

  1. User Avatar Matt Mercer on March 21st, 2009 9:36 am

    Darrell Waltrip.

  2. User Avatar Marc on March 21st, 2009 3:08 pm

    Boogity, Boogity, Boogity!

    (I can’t believe I said that!)

  3. Default NASCAR Guest Avatar okla21fan on March 21st, 2009 4:22 pm

    3 time Cup champ > young phenom

    Waltrip

  4. User Avatar Steve Wronkowicz on March 21st, 2009 11:14 pm

    It looked like an upset until the last second pass by Jaws. The Shrub us putting it in Darrell’s face, then–Darrell got a wake-up call from Junior Johnson and was able to salvage the win. The new, mellower Waltrip almost got it handed to him. Jaws took the punk too lightly.

  5. User Avatar Charlie Turner on March 22nd, 2009 12:57 pm

    From twitter

    ChurchGr8Oval@onpitrow Shrub

    Thanks Clance’

  6. User Avatar Charlie Turner on March 23rd, 2009 10:11 pm

    Waltrip. But this could be a final four match-up in a few years.

  7. Keith on April 2nd, 2009 2:29 pm

    DW- The Whiner should not have been here either.

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