Kyle Busch

Kyle Busch has completed an unprecedented NASCAR sweep of Bristol Motor Speedway with a drama-free Sprint Cup win Saturday night. Busch became the first driver in NASCAR history to win all three national events in the same week. He won the Nationwide race Friday night, and the Trucks race Wednesday night. Emporia, Kan. native Clint Bowyer finished fourth and took home 165 points for his efforts. Busch intentionally wrecked Brad Keselowski to win the Nationwide race, and the two traded barbs and egged on the crowd leading up to the start of the Cup race.

Kyle Busch has won his fourth NASCAR Sprint Cup race of the year, outlasting Jimmie Johnson in a green-white-checkered finish at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday. Busch, the series points leader coming into the race, passed Johnson with about a dozen laps remaining and was opening up a comfortable margin when his brother Kurt scraped a wall, forcing a caution from laps 198-201. The yellow flag erased much of Busch's lead, but he was able to fight off a quick move from Johnson after the restart and pull away.

Kyle Busch has moved one step closer to sweeping the weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway. Busch won the Nationwide Series race Friday night to give him two wins in two races at Bristol. He won the Truck Series race this week, and will try to win the Sprint Cup Series race on Saturday night. Emporia, Kan. native Clint Bowyer finished seventh at the race, gaining 151 points in the Chase to the Sprint Cup. Busch had a lengthy battle with Brad Keselowski for the lead, and passed the Nationwide series points leader with 31 laps to go. But contact after the pass caused Busch to slide back to second.

There is never a lack of excitement or emotion went it comes to Kyle Busch. But love of him or hate him, you have to admit, the kid can drive. His issue has always seemed to be a little maturity or maybe it's focus when things aren't exactly going their way. But Busch got married in the off season and the are rumours of a more grown-up Kyle in 2011. That remains to be seen. If it's true, watch out NASCAR, he could be scary good. We know he can win. the key to Busch's success is what he does when he doen't have a winning car. That's what Jimmie Johnson so good.

Kyle Busch. Carl Edwards. Two drivers at the absolute top of their game right now. But which one would you rather have if you were an owner starting a Sprint Cup team right now. (No Jimmie Johnson is not available). Carl Edwards has finished of 1st, 1st, 2nd, 28th (after being caught in an accident), 1st, 2nd and 6th over the last 7 races. He is on fire and there is no surprise that he is the points leader right now. But he is streaky. All you have to do is look back over his career and see that the 99 team can turn on a dime, and go cold as quickly as they got hot. " This is the best start to a season that I've ever had," Edwards said after his win at Vegas.

North Carolina authorities say a sheriff's deputy clocked NASCAR driver Kyle Busch going 128 mph in a 45 mph zone and that he has been cited for careless and reckless driving and speeding. Busch said in a statement Tuesday that he was driving a new sports car and got carried away. He apologized and said it would never happen again. Iredell County Sheriff's Office spokesman Capt. Darren Campbell says a deputy stopped Busch's 2012 yellow Lexus sports car on a road between Troutman and Mooresville, where the 26-year-old driver lives.

NAsCAR president Mike Helton held a morning press conference in the Kansas Speedway Media Center, confirming there was an incident between Kyle Busch and Richard Childress. Helton would not talk about the details of what happened. Reports have been flying on the internet since about 30 minutes after Saturday's truck race at the Kansas Speedway that Childress hit Busch after post race contact between Busch's truck and the RCR truck driven by Joey Coulter. Childress will have restrictions on where he can and cant go in the garage area during Sunday's race and NASCAR officials say it would been unlikely that you will see Childress anywhere other than on top of his team haulers.

Brad Keselowski is pretty angry with NASCAR these days.         After another top-10 finish in Texas, the defending Sprint Cup champion says what he's seen lately has him questioning everything he believes in. He's not happy about it. Before Saturday night's race, NASCAR confiscated the original rear-end housing from Keselowski's No. 2 Ford and the No. 22 of Joey Logano, his Penske Racing teammate. That could lead to penalties, including possibly suspensions, the loss of championship points and/or fines.

Bristol, Tennessee is considered the birth place of country music and for many it is also the mecca of short track racing. It's not quite Daytona or Darlingon or Charlotte, but to win in the half mile bullring is definitely an art. And it seems once a driver figures it out, they seem to be good at Bristol forever. Cale Yarborough, Darrell Waltrip and Rusty Wallace are among the drivers of yore who had dominating runs at Bristol. "I remember seeing guys like Darrell (Waltrip) and Davey (Allison)

A Pratt woman was thrilled when she won a NASCAR prize package for this weekend. That feeling soon turned to disappointment when the Kansas Lottery took the prize back. “I'm sure dreams do come true for some, but not for me,” said Pratt resident Leisa Mauch. Mauch's dream in this case was to get to the Kansas Speedway.  “Kyle Busch, Kyle Busch is my guy!” For a few days, she thought she had the winning ticket. The Kansas Lottery sent her a letter and it said: "Congratulations from the Kansas Lottery!

NASCAR heads to it's "wild card" race in the Chase. But for Kansas native Clint Bowyer, Talladega has been anything but wild. He has won each of the last two fall races in Alabama. And you have to think he is one of the favorites again. "This is a big weekend I think for our sport, for our Chase and everybody involved in it," said Bowyer. "This can be a game changer.  This is one of the tracks that can separate somebody and possibly win you a championship. " With everyone in the chase running so well, one bad race can be their chase.

There is no doubt that this past weekend was disappointing for Clint Bowyer. He appeared to have a pretty good car at Kansas Speedway, his home track. But he lost an engine very early in the race and finished 36th.  "There is nothing we can do about what happened at Kansas except move on," said Bowyer. "There's nothing you can do about that. That's racing. You go home and get ready for the next weekend and make sure that all they guys stay focused and pumped up. We just got to go back out there and get it back this weekend in Richmond.

All you had to do is watch what Kyle Busch did on Saturday night at the Bud Shootout to know, the kid can drive a race car. In fact, with all due respect to former champs Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson, he might just be the greatest wheel man of our time. But, is he a champion? As good as Kyle Busch is from February to August, when NASCAR's chase for the championship begins, Rowdy Busch seems to disappear, and sometimes even implode. So it begs a second question, does he have a champions mentality?

Ron Hornaday Jr. will drive for Joe Denette Motorsports in the Truck Series next year. The four-time series champion will drive the No. 9 Chevrolet and be partnered with crew chief Jeff Hensley. The team says it will run a second entry in select 2012 Truck Series races. Hornaday had to look for a job when Kevin Harvick said in September he was shutting down his race teams. The Nationwide Series cars are being transferred to Richard Childress Racing, but Kevin Harvick Inc.'s trucks are just going away.

Over the weekend NASCAR took the drastic step of parking Kyle Busch for the weekend, after he wrecked Ron Hornaday, Jr. under caution in the truck race. This is at least the third incident that involved Busch and what most would characterise as bad judgement. You may remember that Busch was ticketed for going 128 mph back in May. Also in May, Busch sent Kevin Harvick'se empty car into the pit wall after the race at Darlington. Despite having his drivers licence suspended by the state of North Carolina, and being placed on probation by NASCAR, it doesn't seem that Busch has learned much from his previous punishments.

Kyle Busch says he is sorry. Busch posted an open letter on his website, KyleBusch.com Saturday evening, that served as his first comment since the incident in Friday's truck race that lead to NASCAR parking him for the rest of the weekend. Busch sat out Saturday's Nationwide race and watched Denny Hamlin drive his car to a second place finish. Michael McDowell will pilot the number 18 Sprint Cup car on Saturday. Here is the letter from Busch: To all, I've had a lot of time today to sit and reflect, and try to put my thoughts into words as best I can. I want to sincerely apologize for my actions during Friday night's Truck Series race at Texas.

Spare Matt Kenseth the toilet humor.   The driver of the No. 17 Roush Fenway Racing Ford was delighted to win Saturday night's Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway with new sponsor Fluidmaster on his car - make that with any sponsor on his car.   In a race that saw five-time defending champion Jimmie Johnson suffer a Chase-changing accident in the final 20 laps, Kenseth pulled away from Kyle Busch and teammate Carl Edwards during...