Full Throttle

As Kyle Busch racked up 4 Cup wins the buzz was he would bulldoze his way through the season and stand an excellent chance at his first championship.

Over the last few weeks, during which his points lead was shaved a bit, the talk was all about Busch stretching himself too thin running so many events each weekend. (as if jetting via private luxury plane is “taxing” physically!)

So much for the “slump!”

The kid is not only back to his winning ways but did so after a miserable start in practice and qualifying and drove to the front from 30th on the grid and dominated, leading a race high 77 laps, while doing it.

The “pseudo-ringer,” David Gilliland came in second and if not for it being the dominate Busch in the lead might have had a shot at the win.

Note the “pseudo” tag. Gilliland can’t rightfully be called a road course ringer, While he’s Yates Racing regular driver, he has had extensive track time at Infineon running in the old Winston West Series and various Late Model under-cards at the track.

Obviously he did Yates Racing proud.

Something that can’t be said for the “genuine” road course ringers, the best they could do was Ron Fellows‘ 29th place finish for DEI (”thanks” to Harvick), the remaining ringers finished 35th or below.

Hey… was that a loud chorus of cheers I heard as Kyle doffed that white hat in victory lane?

Why yes… yes it was. Californians, always need to be different.

More later…

… and the more comes from the rumor file. Early in the weekend stories floated Mark Martin would be replaced at DEI in 2009 with his understudy Aric Almirola. A smart move I would say, Almirola hasn’t had nearly enough track time, the “teacher” should get less time than the “student,” but I digress.

Dustin Long has added to the story by claiming Hendrick will replace Casey Mears with Martin next year.

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