Five races into the 2012 Nationwide Series schedule, Kyle Busch is experiencing just how difficult it can be to own a team in the upper tier of NASCAR. A combination of mistakes, bad luck, and slow race cars has added up to an average finish of 17.4 and just two lead lap finishes. His team’s [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Kyle Busch’
Kyle Busch Motorsports Sputtering Out Of The Gate
April 5th, 2012 
T.C. 
Posted in Racing Observations 
Tags: Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Kyle Busch Motorsports, Mike Beam, Nationwide Series 
13 Comments »A Turbulent Start to the NASCAR Off-Season
November 29th, 2011 Journo We’re just a week into the NASCAR off-season and the changes are coming fast and heavy. Layoffs Around The shoe hasn’t dropped everywhere just yet, but so far Roush Fenway has undertaken a massive layoff that we’ve heard was as many as 125 employees. This included many long-time Roush employees. What’s loyalty worth in this [...]
Busch’s Sponsors Exercise Influence
November 15th, 2011 Journo Take note of this past week – it was one of the more interesting ones I think we’ve seen in a long time. Championship hopes dashed. A driver suspended. A championship team owner put in a bad spot. And sponsors very publicly exercising their influence. It was a strange mix of expectation and surprise. With [...]
Posted in The Business of NASCAR Tags: jgr, Joe Gibbs Racing, Kyle Busch, m&ms, mars, Sponsor, sponsorship 15 Comments »Kyle Got What Kyle Deserved
November 7th, 2011 Journo The responsibility over the past two or three seasons we’ve given back to the drivers came I think with a very clear understanding that there could be a line that got crossed. As annoying as the comments that I’ve made personally in the past about ‘we’ll know it when we see it’ might have been, [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous Tags: jgr, Joe Gibbs Racing, Kyle Busch, penalty, RCR, Richard Childress, Ron Hornday Jr, suspension 35 Comments »Now That Would Be Sweet Payback
October 7th, 2011 Journo As I watched Kurt Busch cross the finish line first last weekend, all I could think about was one thing, wouldn’t it be sweet payback if he won the championship? Busch of course left Roush Racing at the end of 2005, just a year after winning the championship, under very bad circumstances. Remember that traffic [...]
Kurt, Kyle and 23 Wins
August 12th, 2011 Journo Among the milestones NASCAR is approaching this year is one that may not be on your radar – 26-year-old Kyle Busch is just one win away from matching his 32-year-old brother’s win record. The two brothers had equally meteoric rises through the NASCAR ranks, beginning at Roush Racing. Kurt in 2000 and Kyle, at age [...]
Gibbs’ Reliability Issue
August 4th, 2011 Journo Joe Gibbs Racing didn’t have a particularly good weekend in Indianapolis. The teams finished 10th, 25th and 27th. Adding to the weekend woes was what has become a very common problem for JGR – an expired engine; this time for Denny Hamlin. This ongoing issue comes as rumors about the future of JGR’s engine program [...]
Posted in Racing Observations, The Business of NASCAR Tags: Dave Rogers, Denny Hamlin, Engine, jgr, Joe Gibbs Racing, Joey Logano, Kyle Busch, Mark Cronquist, Toyota 8 Comments »Is There A Truck Series Championship Curse?
July 29th, 2011 Journo I started to think about this post a few weeks ago. At the time, Germain Racing, for the second season in a row, was threatening to shut down Todd Bodine’s #30 team for a lack of sponsorship. It was stunning to think the reigning series championship was about to be parked for a lack of [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: Camping World Truck Series, Craftsman Truck Series, Germain Racing, Jim Smith, Johnny Benson, Kyle Busch, Kyle Busch Motorsports, NASCAR, Randy Moss Motorsports, Red Horse Racing, ron hornaday, Ted Musgrave, todd bodine, Tom Deloach, Truck Series, Ultra Motorsports 4 Comments »Mayhem And Paybacks Rule The Weekend
June 27th, 2011 T.C. We saw it at both Road America and Infineon. Bent sheet metal and angry drivers filled the garage area after the races. You would have thought we had just raced at Martinsville or the old Bristol. Papis was angry with Villeneuve, Stewart and Vickers were at odds, and no NASCAR clash is complete without a [...]
Suspensions For Speeding? Not In This Sport
May 26th, 2011 Journo Turns out the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office doesn’t look too kindly on people doing 128MPH in a 45MPH zone. Well, they’ll let you drive away, but they will issue you one heck of a citation. What’s three times the legal limit, right? If you live in the Charlotte area this has been THE story for [...]
Posted in Racing Observations, The Business of NASCAR Tags: A.J. Allmendinger, DUI, DWI, fines, Kyle Busch, Michael Annett, Mooresville, NASCAR, penalties, speeding 23 Comments »