Las Vegas Sun

April 24, 2024

Observations from Sunday’s Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway

His aggressiveness notwithstanding, Kyle Busch looks an awful lot like the driver to beat for this year’s Sprint Cup championship. Including his victory Sunday, Busch has led a series-high 329 of 1,042 laps (32 percent) in the first four races of the season. …

Busch, 22, became the youngest driver to win a Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway and the first to win both the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race and the Cup race. …

I understand Atlanta’s place in the history of NASCAR (and stock-car racing in general even before there was a NASCAR), but the amount of empty seats in the main grandstand for Sunday’s race was an embarrassment to the track and the sport. …

It took Toyota 40 points races to capture its first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory. And they finished 1-2, to boot. …

Do you get the impression that Tony Stewart doesn’t like Goodyear tires? …

Does anybody really believe that nobody at Roush Fenway Racing had a hand in seeing that the lid for the oil tank box on Carl Edwards’ car was not secured prior to the race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway? And does anybody really believe Jack Roush’s claim that he didn’t know the removal of the lid results in a competitive advantage?

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