Not even a multi-car wreck could stop Kyle Busch’s current hot streak.
The No. 18 Toyota Camry driver was collected in a pileup on Lap 2 of the Food City 500 at Bristol, which resulted in some minor damage to the rear of his vehicle. ‘Rowdy’ beat the odds to come back through the field, however, eventually holding off his older brother Kurt Busch in the No. 1 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 to take his 54th Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series win.
A late-race restart proved to be the ultimate decider Sunday. With less than 25 laps remaining, No. 42 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet of Kyle Larson made contact with the outside wall, bringing out the yellow flag. The Team Penske cars, running 1-2 and looking just as strong as they always have so far this season, led a pack of cars to pit road for fresh tires while the two Busch brothers elected to stay out on old rubber.
The No. 18 and the No. 1 cars then led the field to green, quickly pulling away from Joe Gibbs Racing’s Daniel Suarez and Wood Brothers’ Racing’s Paul Menard, who restarted 2nd and 3rd, and engaging in an exciting battle for the win. The younger Busch eventually came out on top, but it wasn’t for Kurt’s lack of trying. Post-race, he said he was ready to wreck his younger brother for the win – he just couldn’t get close enough to his rear bumper to pull off a bump and run.
“That one was tough,” the Chevy told NASCAR.com. “I really wanted to beat him. I was going to wreck him. I was wanting to stay close enough so that when we took the white (flag) I was going to just drive straight into 3 and 4. I mean he’s already won (at Bristol). I figured he could give a little love to his brother.”
“I wanted that one bad. I feel like him right now,” he joked. “I’m all mad because I didn’t win.”
Click here for full results from the Food City 500 from Bristol.
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Chevy Camaros are still not there. 2 cars finish in the top 10. Sad. Congrats Kurt but 2nd place is still the first loser.
I predict they get their first win this year before May is over, if even that late. Second place is a major improvement. All of Chevy’s drivers (with the exception of Chase Elliott are either looking for his first win, or facing a win slump (Kurt Busch, Jimmie Johnson) Another interesting mark of Chevy’s progress is Chase Elliott broke the top 5 during the race yesterday WITH NO POWER STEERING! Chase and Kurt are leading the charge.
Chase Elliott had the fastest car on track yesterday. He got wrecked twice and had no power steering after the first wreck, which I believe was before lap 100(out of 500). For those of you who don’t know, Bristol is one of the most physically demanding racetracks in the world because of how quickly the cars go from turns to straights and then back to turns, and the turns have extreme banking. With no power steering, the car becomes a lot harder to turn and even harder to counter-steer in the event that it gets loose. It makes it hard to get in and out of the pits quickly and it makes the driver very, very fatigued. Chase cracked the top 5 two times without power steering and the top ten three or four times. He’d restart in 18th, work up to 10th, drop back to 18th because he had to fix damage under caution, get back up to 10th, another caution, and so on. Even though he couldn’t get that track position back, he managed to set equal or better lap times compared to every other car throughout the race. Towards the end, he was battling for 5th or 6th with Keselowski and Blaney, and Chase was way faster. The other two were just side by side the entire time. Brad finally pulled ahead on the top line and Chase was close on his bumper. Blaney came up the track to block Brad but ended up pushing him into the wall, causing Chase to rear-end Brad and get a tire rub. Chase had to put twice under caution to fix that damage. If that wreck wouldn’t have happened, Chase would’ve finished in the top 3.
The speed is there. It’s all about how well each team can take advantage of it. Right now, Penske, JGR, and SHR are doing so well because they’re working with other organizations. Hendrick, RCR, Ganassi, RPM, and JTG are not working well with each other, and that’s holding them back.
Glad to see someone else that shares my views!
Hope this is not gonna be another long season for Camaro. Are the Toyotas and Fords that much superior? Is it engines down on power for Chevy, or something else?
Three things:
1.) Lack of engineering/development cooperation. Hendrick Motorsports engineers their own engines and sells them to Chip Ganassi racing. RCR sells engines and Chassis to Every other Chevy organization(might be incorrect on that, but RCR and HMS are basically competing for business). There’s a lack of uniform in the mechanical hardware of the Chevys and there’s not enough investment into a single engine or chassis option. Every Ford team runs Roush-Yates engines and every Toyota runs TRD-built engines and the same chassis as each other. All Ford teams and all Toyota teams combine their money to fund R&D for their engines, which allows them to be better. Imagine RCR, HMS, and Ganassi combining all of their powertrain funding into one huge program… it’d be incredible.
2.) Bad drivers. Plain and simple, half the field is Chevys but less than a third of the good drivers are in Chevys. That makes it hard to improve the cars and means that Chevy teams make less money per race due to poor finishes.
3.) Poor execution. Many of the lower-budget or less experienced teams are in Chevys, and those are the kind of teams that have lots of penalties, slow pit stops, and bad race setups. They make more mistakes due to less training and those teams usually have trouble dialing in a car throughout a race. With 37-39 other cars in the race, you can’t expect to have great or even consistent finishes if you can’t execute week after week.
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