Full Throttle

Come on all you disgruntled NASCAR fans, admit it, Saturday’s 10 lap side-by-side finish in Kansas was a barn burner.

But all is not lost for you “haters,” you still can claim it came down to two Buschwhackers and not say, Marcos Ambrose and Bobby Hamilton Jr.

Such is life, get over it.

The reality is it was an exciting finish as Kyle Busch held off Matt Kenseth over the final ten laps. Ford against Chevy, Roush-Fenway against Hendrick what more do you want, the only thing missing was a Toyota in the mix.

Casey Mears followed the top two with Clint Bowyer and Jamie McMurray rounding out the top five.

Denny Hamlin, Paul Menard, Jeff Burton, Brian Vickers and Greg Biffle completed the first ten finishers.

While on the subject of “haters,” even with points leader Carl Edwards problems on the day, the final indignity pictured above, he still leads the standings by a wide margin.

Edwards and his team can sit out three of the last five events and still win the championship. Someone explain to me how that’s better than having five Cup drivers within 18 points of each other in Cup?

UPDATE: Kyle Busch’s winning #5 failed post race inspection with what NASCAR called an out of spec intake manifold. You can bet that wasn’t caused by an after race bump/celebration by a teammate.