What a week or so for Kyle Busch...

About 10 days ago i stated that KyB was my lock for Driver Of The Year so far. Well it turns out that this prognostication was made with pinpoint accuracy. It was announced last Tuesday that Rowdy did indeed win the 1st Quarter driver of the year award. That being said it was one of many reasons why KyB is all over the news and blogs this week. We all remember his infamous spin out of dale Jr with 4 to go in Richmond. His post race  remarks were just as memorable, and quite hilarious. Busch said that he saw the crowd giving him the #1 sign (referring to the middle digits the fans were waiving at him after said nudging of Jr.) even though he was in second place at the time. He then went on to say that the crowd must have indulged in one too Many of Dale Jr's Budweisers, or maybe they were just too Amped up. These references were clever puns at Jr's endorsements. Thats the way to make light of Jr Nation loathing you, make fun of it. Busch said that he was not thinking about the fact that Jr has not won in 2 years, it is not his job to help a fan favorite win, it is his job to win it himself. Right on Kyle! I do however think it was Bushleague (no pun intended) for Denny Hamlin to intentionally cause a caution to help out his teammate who was running second at the time. This caution allowed Busch to restart on the back bumper of the 88 leading to the derailing of the Jr victory train.

Busch follows this controversial week with an impressive win at Darlington. I gotta hand it to the kid, and yes he is one of the few drivers that i can officially call kid, he drives the wheels of the car every week. He must have hit the wall at least 6 times on Saturday night, but still drove right to victory lane following some burnouts of course!

Kyle Busch 1st quarter driver of the year! we can only assume that things would have to go terribly wrong for him to not be holding the award over his head come November..

Michael Clark (emsea)