NASCAR: What’s Hot and What’s Not
Despite Kyle Busch’s tepid (to be kind) Chase performance so far the Joe Gibbs driver has figured out ways to stay hot in various ways. One unexpected - and costly.
One way is to qualify third, behind Rick Crawford and Cale Gale in the Billy Ballew Motorsports Tundra for this weekends truck race at Texas. His performance was remarkable given his truck at one point was probably “hotter” than the driver.
Enroute Texas the teams hauler caught fire Tuesday night near Shreveport, La. The truck he qualed was a backup the primary one having been destroyed in the blaze.
“With the black soot, you couldn’t read the number on the side of it this morning,” Busch said after his lap of 178.183 mph. “Everything else is gone. It’s unfortunate for Billy,” Busch said. “I’m sure the $1 million in insurance won’t cover all that was lost.”
Under the category of what’s not hot is ticket sales for the season ending Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The event still is not sold out. It’s rare for Homestead-Miami Speedway to be in ticket-selling mode for its marquee race of Ford Championship weekend, which is a little more than two weeks away.
Obviously a combination of high prices and what some seem to believe is a “non-competitive” Chase this year has had its toll.
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