By JENNA FRYER
NEW YORK (AP) — Kyle Busch has been known to enjoy New York City and the ample opportunities it offers young, rich superstars.
And after a dream regular season, the kid who has seemingly won everything this year had plenty of reason to run wild during NASCAR's two-day tour through the city to promote the upcoming Chase for the championship.
Instead, the celebration seemed uncharacteristically subdued for Busch, the Las Vegas driver who usually has no trouble finding the latest hot spots. He did his media obligations and squeezed in shopping and sightseeing with his girlfriend, but bowed out when the party roared into the early morning hours.
"I've been low-key all season," he insisted.
Maybe. But isn't New York your kind of town?
All work, little play as Busch begins title hunt....
Bristol, TN (Sports Network) - Kyle Busch put on one of his most dominating performances, leading a career-high 415 laps, but Carl Edwards grabbed the lead from Busch with 31 laps to go and held it for his second-straight Sharpie 500 victory at the Bristol Motor Speedway. Edwards recorded his sixth NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory of the season and the 13th of his career. He also clinched the second seed in the championship "Chase," which begins September 14th at New Hampshire.
Busch appeared to be on the way to his ninth Sprint Cup victory of the year, but Edwards nudged him from behind. Busch got loose, allowing Edwards to move underneath him for the lead.
"I couldn't get by him," Edwards said. "I had to ask myself, 'Would he do that to me?', and he has before. That's the way it goes...You keep talking about rivalries. We might have one now."
At the conclusion of the race, a frustrated Busch retaliated by intentionally bumping Edwards on the cool-down lap. Edwards, however, got the best of the post-race ruckus when he spun Busch around.
While Edwards celebrated in Victory Lane, Busch made a trip to the NASCAR hauler for a discussion with officials.
Edwards defends Sharpie 500 title at Bristol....
Kyle Busch becomes first NASCAR driver to win three road races in one season
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Associated Press
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. -- If Kyle Busch has a weakness, it's apparently going to be awfully difficult to find.
After rivals Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon said during the week they thought he was slipping following two straight lackluster finishes, Busch answered by making NASCAR history on Sunday. He led 52 laps from the pole and won the Centurion Boats at The Glen at Watkins Glen International to become the first driver in NASCAR's history to win three road course races in one season.
"That's pretty neat, pretty special to me," said Busch, who finished second Saturday in the Nationwide race here. "To be a force to be reckoned with means a lot. This year has just been phenomenal. It's just crazy."
Kyle Busch becomes first NASCAR driver to win three road races in one season....
By RICK GANO – 5 hours ago
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Kyle Busch passed Jimmie Johnson after a restart on the next-to-last lap Saturday night to win his seventh NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race of the season.
Johnson had gone by Busch with 17 laps remaining in the LifeLock.com 400. But on the restart after the ninth caution, Busch went high on the track at Chicagoland Speedway and got by Johnson and held on for yet another victory.
Busch has 14 victories this season, spanning NASCAR's three series. He won a Nationwide Series race on the same track Friday night.
And the 23-year-old Busch showed again why he leads the Sprint Cup points race with some great driving at the end.
Busch passes Johnson late to take Chicagoland race....
By JENNA FRYER – 12 hours ago
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Kyle Busch fell a lap down at Talladega and came back to win. So when a steering problem dropped him to the back of the field at Daytona, he didn't panic. He simply settled in for the long drive back to the front. And back to Victory Lane.
Busch bested Carl Edwards in a door-to-door drag race Saturday night that ended under caution with Busch earning his Sprint Cup Series-best sixth victory of the season.
"That's him," crew chief Steve Addington shrugged.
Say what you want about Busch, the driver NASCAR fans love to hate. But the kid doesn't quit, not when a checkered flag is on the line.
Busch nips Edwards to win under caution at Daytona....
By Curtis Pashelka
Bay Area News Group
SONOMA - He conserved enough fuel for the two-lap sprint to the finish. He hit his marks. He ran consistent lap times to stay comfortably ahead of his pursuers.
And he nailed restart after restart, including the most crucial one of the day.
Kyle Busch said he hardly considers himself to be a "road-course ace" at this point in his promising career. But Busch certainly had the look of one during a dominant performance Sunday at Infineon Raceway.
"Today," Busch said, "we were just in the right positions at the right times."
Busch, 23, was flawless during a green-white-checkered finish to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup Toyota/Save Mart 350 in only the seventh road-course start of his Cup career. David Gilliland finished 1.716 seconds behind in second, and five-time race winner Jeff Gordon was third.
Busch, who started 30th, led 78 laps, including the final 42 for his fifth Cup victory of the season. He has won 11 times this season including his work in the Nationwide and Craftsman Truck series. He won the Nationwide Series road race in Mexico City in April.
Kyle Busch wins Sonoma NASCAR race....
Kyle Busch is working overtime to try to win three points championships
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By JIM PEDLEY
The Kansas City Star
From the sound of it, Kyle Busch is in the throes of a major funk at this very moment. He’s probably sitting in a hotel room or in his motor home or on an airplane somewhere chewing his fingernails.
All because today he is not in a race car. Today, for the only time in a five-day stretch, Busch’s schedule takes him out of a race car. That means he can only think about racing.
And that really stinks.
STORY....
By DAN GELSTON
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Kyle Busch eggs on the jeering pre-race crowd in his role as NASCAR's latest "Bad Boy."
The usual noise he hears after races this year are the sounds of celebration. Busch can tune out those boos when a crew is whooping it up, confetti is falling all over him and victory drinks are spraying in his direction.
No matter the series, the track or crowd reaction, nothing has slowed down Busch this season.
Busch led the way again, dominating the second half of the 400-mile race Sunday at Dover International Speedway and charging to his Sprint Cup series-best fourth win of the season — and 10th overall.
"That darned 18 car got us again," said runner-up Carl Edwards.
STORY....
