(By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service)
Posted: Sunday,September 5th, 2010
HAMPTON, Ga.—Kyle Busch is a lightning rod, sometimes through no fault of his own.
The lightning struck Friday night at Kentucky Speedway, where race winner Todd Bodine spun under hard racing with Busch just past the halfway point in the Built Ford Tough 225 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race.
Bodine took advantage of fuel-mileage strategy to win the race, but afterward, in a televised interview in victory lane, he accused Busch of “dirty driving.”
“The first person I have to thank is Kyle Busch for driving dirty, sucking me down and getting me spun out to give us the gas (during the pit stop that followed),” Bodine said. “That’s why we won the race.
Kyle Busch (Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images for NASCAR)
“When I got up behind Kyle, we got aero-tight, which is what happens. I backed off, kind of riding there trying to keep the right front out and wait for later. Lo and behold, we got sucked around, got some fuel and here we are in victory lane.”
Busch was changing out of his fire suit when he heard Bodine’s comments on TV. He walked to victory lane, interrupted Bodine’s celebration and took issue with the winner’s comments. After a brief exchange, Busch walked away.
“I don’t feel like I’m a dirty racer,” Busch said Saturday at Atlanta Motor Speedway. “I feel like I’m a hard racer and an aggressive one. I wouldn’t call it dirty. Dirty is when you run into the back of somebody down the back straightaway and put them in the fence.
“You can spin a guy out by not touching him. That’s what happened to Bodine. I was three lanes up the racetrack. He chased it all the way up to me, I felt like. You watch the replay—I’m in the third lane.”
The hard feelings between Busch and Bodine didn’t extend to Bodine’s team owner, Bob Germain, who gave Busch a ride to Atlanta on his plane after the race.
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