Monticello — Penske Racing's Justin Allgaier passed and then held off his teammate
Brad Keselowski to win Saturday's Nationwide Series race at Bristol to earn
his first career Nationwide Series win in his 43rd start.
Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards, Kevin Harvick, Greg Biffle, Reed Sorenson,
Mike Bliss, Jason Leffler, and Scott Wimmer were the remaining top-10
finishers.
Top-10 points leaders after 4 of 35: 1. Edwards-670, 2. Keselowski-644,
3. Allgaier-639, 4. Kyle Busch-594, 5. Harvick-569, 6. Biffle-563, 7.
Menard-528, 8. S. Wallace-472, 9. M. Wallace-458, 10. Vickers-457
KYLE BUSCH TALKS ABOUT DRIVER RETALIATION
Lately there has been lots of talk about self policing and retaliation.
In the past Kyle Busch has been criticized for rough driving. This past
weekend, he answered questions about whether there are lessons to be learned
from those situations.
"I was racing at Loudon a few years ago with Kasey Kahne," said Busch.
"Unfortunately on my mistake, I made contact with him off turn two, spun him
out. He backed into the fence. Then a lap later when I came back around, he
turned up into my racecar, kind of retaliated right then and there under
caution and bent my car up pretty good while I was running fifth.
"I've been through it. You know, I've never been through the case which
happened last week between Edwards and Keselowski. But this series, like you
said, this sport has always been self policing. The drivers try to take
things into their own hands. Sometimes it gets a little too far.
"The best scenario I had a few years ago when Tony Stewart wanted to get
back at me for racing him too hard at Vegas. He missed his chance and got
into the wall a little bit and I went on to finish second, he went on to
finish 12th or 13th and was real mad at me after the race.
"A couple weeks later we sat down in his motorhome and had a discussion.
I felt like that was probably one of the best things that I've done in my
career. He was a veteran driver. You got more of his point when it comes
from a veteran driver who has been around the sport and who has been through
some of the same things I went through at that time.
"You know, to me it's been a big learning experience going through all
that. When you grow up as a kid, for instance, seven, eight years old, you
look at the sport and be like, ŒMan, that's what I want to do. I want to
drive racecars around in circles every day, every weekend, just do it for a
living.' Then you get here and it's like, ŒWow, there's a lot more
involved.' You have no idea what happens until you get here and you're
behind the scenes and see it.
"A lot of people think it's easy and it's the best job in the world. It
very honestly could be. But there's still a lot that goes along with it in
order to make it all tick and make it worthwhile."
Weekend Racing: The Cup cars, and Camping World Trucks will be at
Martinsville, NASCAR's smallest track (0.526-miles) this weekend, while the
Nationwide teams have an off weekend.
Sat., Mar. 27, Camping World Trucks Kroger 250, race 3 of 25; Starting
time: 1:30 pm (ET); TV: Speed Channel.
Sun., Mar. 28, Sprint Cup Goodys 500, race 6 of 36; Starting time: 1 pm
(ET); TV: Fox.
Racing Trivia Question: How old is Dale Earnhardt Jr.?
Last Week's Question: How many race tracks does Bruton Smith's Speedway
Motorsports Corp. own?
Answer: Eight, they are Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway,
Charlotte Motor Speedway, Infineon (Sonoma) Raceway, Kentucky Speedway, Las
Vegas Speedway, New Hampshire and Texas Motor Speedway.
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