Kyle Busch needs a cookie. For the second week in a row the reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup champion swept the weekends races. Busch took the lead with 33 laps to go at Texas Motor Speedway early Sunday morning to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup Duck Commander 500. The win came a day after his victory Friday night in the Xfinity race and a week after he won both the Sprint Cup and Camping World Truck Series races at Martinsville Speedway.
“It’s pretty darn good, I’ll tell you that,” Busch said. “I’ve got a great wife, a great son and I’m having a blast, living the dream with Adam Stevens (crew chief) and these guys, and Joe (Gibbs, JGR owner) and JD (Gibbs, JGR co-chairman), thinking about you guys back at home and of course Coy (Gibbs, JGR COO) is here with us. Everybody back at the shop has been building great race cars, they’ve been doing a great job for us. The crew chiefs here have been really working together, gelling together and putting everything together. It’s just fun, right now it’s all clicking and going together.”
After his win Friday night, Busch joked that he deserved a cookie and Sunday morning he certainly earned one. Martin Truex Jr. dominated the race, which started two hours late thanks to rain and ended early Sunday morning on the east coast. Truex led a race high 141 of the 334 laps but a decision to stay out late in the going while most of the leaders behind him pitted doomed Truex who wasn’t able to keep up with older tires and finished a disappointing sixth.
“It was Cole (Pearn, crew chief) who called me in at the last second,” Truex said.
Greg is the author of "The Nuts and Bolts of NASCAR: The Definitive Viewers' Guide to Big-Time Stock Car Auto Racing" and has been published in major publications across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a contributor to Chicken Soup for the NASCAR Soul, published in 2010, and the Christmas edition in 2016. He wrote as the NASCAR, Formula 1, Auto Reviews and National Veterans Affairs Examiner for Examiner.com and has appeared on Fox News. He holds a BS degree in communications, a Masters degree in psychology and is currently a PhD candidate majoring in psychology. He is currently the weekend Motorsports Editor for Autoweek.
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