Dodge teams, across the board, are struggling, and it’s time for some answers
Remember when Kurt Busch was such hot stuff on the NASCAR tour? Not lately.
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By Mike Mulhern
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DARLINGTON, S.C.
So it was called the Dodge Challenger 500…..maybe it should have been called the ‘Dodge Challenged’ 500, because Dodge teams – again, another week on the NASCAR tour – were challenged to get anything going Saturday night at Darlington Raceway.
About the only thing Dodge had out front all night was the pace car.
And it’s about time somebody at Dodge gets called on the carpet about the way this season is progressing….or rather not progressing.
Yes, Dodge teams looked great at Daytona, Ryan Newman and teammate Kurt Busch going one-two, in upsetting both Toyota and Chevy men.
But since then it’s been a litany of excuses, and no more wins. Not even a good scent of one.
Dodge is not only last in the Sprint Cup manufacturers’ race, Dodge is also last in Nationwide (Busch) racing, and last in NASCAR Truck racing.
The top Dodge finisher at Darlington – Kurt Busch. His brother is the hottest thing in NASCAR, and wound up winning, again. Kurt? Well, since leaving Ford’s Jack Roush two years ago to join Roger Penske, the elder Busch has just about fallen off the radar. Kurt Busch this season isn’t even a top-20 runner; his Daytona run is his only top-10.
Kurt Busch, once used to the boos that now greet his kid brother, would probably love to get any reaction from the crowd this season.
Still Kurt Busch tries to put an upbeat spin on things: “The Charlotte test paid dividends. With this right-side tire being the same at Charlotte and Darlington, we just kept the same frame of mind for four days straight, which really helped us.”
Kasey Kahne might have had something to work with, but he crashed during practice. “We had to go to our back-up car for the race, and it wasn’t nearly as good as our primary car,” Kahne, 22nd, says. “We struggled on power a bit. But we kept it off the wall, which is a positive.”
Dodge horsepower has been questioned by several teams. The car maker is introducing a new engine this season.
Lack of horsepower wasn’t the only problem facing Dodge’s Juan Pablo Montoya, who finished 23rd: “We went a lap down early and struggled with handling. I thought our Dodge was really good in practice and qualifying…we just struggled in the race.”
The Saturday night story for the rest of the Dodge guys was even worse:
Robby Gordon – 33rd. He crashed in practice, and his crew had to do some major bodywork before the race: “I have to take my hat off to my crew. They put a new body on the car.
“And for us to run as good as we ran, and then break an alternator wire, is a huge disappointment.
“It’s just a wire (on the George Gillett-Ray Evernham engine he leases). I don’t know if Gillett-Evernham has broken one before…
“It takes two batteries to start it, and I forgot to switch it over to one battery (for the 500). So it just didn’t have a backup.
“If I’d have known, and not worn out both batteries from the get-go, it probably would have been okay.
“A mistake on my part.
“On the other side, we shouldn’t have failures. To be honest with you, stuff shouldn’t break. These are pretty archaic race cars and pretty simple to work on.”
Robby Gordon watches his crew repairing his Darlington Dodge
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Sterling Marlin, filling in at Chip Ganassi’s for injured Dario Franchitti, ran 34th. “The car got real hot,” Marlin said. “There was a problem with the cooling system, and we had to pit to cool me off.”
Newman continues to hit potholes. This time he was a very disappointed 37th. And that drops him out of the Sprint Cup tour’s top-12. “We had problems throughout the race, and it ended up costing us in the points,” Newman fretted. “We’re going to have to work harder and hopefully rebound at Charlotte.”
Ryan Newman’s Daytona 500 trophy is about all he’s got to show for the season so far
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Sam Hornish Jr., who may be regretted jumping from Indy-cars to NASCAR, is averaging a 30th place finish this spring. No top-10s; only two top-20s. And Saturday night – a 38th: “I’m pretty sure we had a right-side front tire go down. As soon as I turned in the corner it just went straight.
“The car was handling real good; we’d moved up a couple of spots already, and I felt really good about what we were going to be able to do.
“The days when we feel like we’re really out to lunch, we go out and run without a hitch…and the days when we’re going to go out there and get a top-15 or a top-10 we have a problem.
“We’ll have to figure out how to get around that sooner or later.”
For Patrick Carpentier, this event was expected to be a challenge – heck, he’d never seen the track before. And this place, well, if you don’t know the line, the other drivers tend to lose patience.
“This was a step ahead again,” the Canadian rookie said, after finishing 40th. “We’ve led on an oval… and for a guy that did road course stuff (most of his career), I’m happy.
“We keep learning.
“But once we lost laps in the pits there’s nothing I can do. I can’t battle with the guys; they all get ticked off and try to turn you around.
“And then after that, we had a mechanical failure.
“But at the beginning I passed (Dale Earnhardt) Junior, and a lot of guys, and I was having a blast.
“It’s fun, it’s coming. But we just don’t have any luck at all.”
At least Carpentier’s luck wasn’t as bad as Elliott Sadler’s. He was trying to pass Toyota’s Tony Stewart on the second lap of the 367-lapper, and they collided and slammed the wall. “I just made a huge mistake,” Sadler, 42nd, said ruefully.
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Newcomer Patrick Carpentier is game but becoming impatient
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Dodge equipos están luchando, y es hora para algunas respuestas
Remember when Kurt Busch was such hot stuff on the NASCAR tour? Not lately.
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¿Recuerde que cuando Kurt Busch era tal materia caliente en el viaje de NASCAR? No últimamente.
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DARLINGTON, S.C.
Tan fue llamado el desafiador del regate 500.....maybe que debe haber sido llamado el ‘ regate desafiado ‘ 500, porque desafiaron a los equipos del regate - otra vez, otra semana en el viaje de NASCAR - a conseguir a cualquier cosa la noche de sábado que iba en la alcantarilla de Darlington.
Sobre única cosa el regate tenía fuera de frente que toda la noche era el coche del paso.
Y es sobre tiempo que alguien en el regate consigue invitó la alfombra sobre la manera esta estación es....or que progresa que no progresa algo.
Sí, los equipos del regate parecían grandes Daytona, Ryan Newman y el one-two que iba de Kurt Busch del compañero de equipo, en los hombres de Toyota que trastornaban y de Chevy.
Pero se es desde entonces una letanía de excusas, y no más gana.
No iguale un buen olor de uno.
El regate está no solamente por último en la raza del Sprint de los fabricantes de la taza, el regate consiste también por último en por toda la nación (Busch) competir con, y pasado en competir con del carro de NASCAR.
La acabadora superior del regate en Darlington - Kurt Busch.
Su hermano es la cosa más caliente de NASCAR, y herida para arriba ganando, otra vez.
¿Kurt? Bien, desde dejar a Gato Roush de Ford hace dos años para ensamblar Roger Penske, el Busch más viejo tiene apenas sobre caído del radar.
Kurt Busch esta estación no es uniforme un corredor top-20; su funcionamiento de Daytona es su solamente top-10.
Kurt Busch, usado una vez a los boos que ahora saludan a su hermano del cabrito, amaría probablemente conseguir a cualquier reacción de la muchedumbre esta estación.
Todavía Kurt Busch intenta poner una vuelta del upbeat en cosas: “los dividendos pagados de la prueba de Charlotte. Con este neumático del derecho-lado siendo iguales en Charlotte y Darlington, acabamos de mantener el mismo marco de la mente por cuatro días recto, que realmente nos ayudaron.”
Kasey Kahne pudo haber tenido algo trabajar con, pero él se estrelló durante práctica.
“tuvimos que ir a nuestro coche de reserva para la raza, y no era casi tan bueno como nuestro coche primario,” Kahne, 22do, dice.
“luchamos en energía un pedacito. Pero lo guardamos de la pared, que es un positivo.”
El caballo de fuerza del regate ha sido preguntado por varios equipos.
El fabricante del coche está introduciendo un motor nuevo esta estación.
La carencia de caballos de fuerza no era el Juan Pablo Montoya del único del problema regate de los revestimientos, que acabó 23ro: “fuimos un regazo abajo temprano y luchamos con la dirección. Pensé que nuestro regate era realmente bueno en la práctica y calificando… acabamos de luchar en la raza.”
La historia de la noche de sábado para el resto de los individuos del regate era incluso peor: Robby Gordon - 33ro.
Él se estrelló en la práctica, y su equipo tuvo que hacer alguna carrocería importante ante la raza: “tengo que llevar mi sombrero apagado mi equipo. Pusieron un nuevo cuerpo en el coche.
“y para que funcionemos tan bueno como funcionamos, y después rompemos un alambre del alternador, es una decepción enorme.
“es justa un alambre (en el motor de Evernham del Gillett-Rayo de George que él arrienda).
No sé si Gillett-Evernham ha roto uno antes…
“toma dos baterías para comenzarlo, y me olvidé de cambiarlo encima a una batería (para los 500). Apenas no tenía tan una reserva.
“si hubiera sabido, y no hubiera usado fuera de ambas baterías del conseguir-ir, habría sido probablemente aceptable.
“un error en mi parte. “en el otro lado, no debemos tener faltas. Para ser honesta con usted, la materia no debe romperse. Éstos son coches bastante arcaicos de la raza y bastante simples trabajar encendido.”
Robby Gordon watches his crew repairing his Darlington Dodge
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Robby Gordon mira a su equipo el reparar de su regate de Darlington
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El marlin esterlina, completando en la viruta Ganassi para Dario dañado Franchitti, funcionó 34to.
“había un problema con el sistema de enfriamiento, y tuvimos que marcar con hoyos para refrescarme apagado.”
Newman continúa golpeando potholes.
Esta vez él era un 37.o muy decepcionado.
Y que gotas él fuera del top-12 del Sprint del viaje de la taza.
“teníamos problemas a través de la raza, y terminó encima de costarnos en los puntos,” Newman preocupado.
“vamos a tener que trabajar más difícilmente y esperanzadamente rebotar en Charlotte.”
Ryan Newman’s Daytona 500 trophy is about all he’s got to show for the season so far
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El trofeo de Daytona 500 de Ryan Newman está sobre todos lo que él tiene demostrar para la estación hasta ahora
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El Jr. del SAM Hornish, que puede ser el saltar lamentado de los Indy-coches a NASCAR, está haciendo un promedio de un trigésimo final del lugar este primavera.
Ningún top-10s; solamente dos top-20s. Y noche de sábado - una 38.a: “soy bastante seguro nosotros hice que un neumático del frente del derecho-lado fuera abajo. Tan pronto como diera vuelta en la esquina acaba de ir derecho.
“el coche dirigía bueno verdadero; levantado un par de puntos ya, y me sentía realmente bueno sobre lo que íbamos a poder hacer.
“los días cuando nos sentimos como estamos realmente hacia fuera almorzar, salimos y funcionamos sin un tirón… y los días en que vamos a salir allí y conseguir un top-15 o un top-10 tenemos un problema.
“tendremos que calcular fuera de cómo conseguir alrededor de eso más pronto o más adelante.”
Para Patrick Carpentier, se esperaba que este acontecimiento fuera un desafío - heck, él nunca visto la pista antes.
Y este lugar, bien, si usted no sabe la línea, los otros conductores tiende para perder paciencia.
“esto era un paso a continuación otra vez,” el novato canadiense dicho, después de acabar 40.o.
“hemos conducido en un oval… y para un individuo que hizo la materia del curso del camino (más de su carrera), soy feliz.
“guardamos el aprender.
“pero una vez que perdiéramos regazos en los hoyos no hay nada que puedo hacer. No puedo luchar con los individuos; toda consiguen hecha tictac apagado e intentan darle vuelta alrededor.
“y entonces después de ésa, teníamos una falta mecánica.
“pero al principio pasé (valle Earnhardt) al joven, y a muchos de individuos, y tenía una ráfaga.
“es diversión, él está viniendo. Pero apenas no tenemos ninguna suerte en todos.”
Por lo menos la suerte de Carpentier no era tan mala como Elliott Sadler.
Él intentaba pasar Stewart tony de Toyota en el segundo regazo del 367-lapper, y chocaron y cerraron de golpe la pared.
“acabo de incurrir en una equivocación enorme,” Sadler, 42.o, dije pesarosamente.
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Newcomer Patrick Carpentier is game but becoming impatient
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El recién llegado Patrick Carpentier es juego pero el llegar a ser impaciente
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Kyle Busch again leaves the competition breathless in his wake, and adds Darlington to his win list
Kyle Busch wins again, and takes aim next at the Charlotte All-Star race
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By Mike Mulhern
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DARLINGTON, S.C.
Six straight weeks now, and six big NASCAR wins for Kyle Busch, and he certainly wins these things with quite a flair.
But for Busch, now just turned 23, it’s not just about the wins he’s racking up, or the style of showmanship he’s offering the crowds….it’s really about the NASCAR championship battle he’s waging, now halfway through the race to the playoff chase.
Considering Busch’s Sprint Cup victories this season – Atlanta, Talladega and here Saturday night, all 500 milers, all under rather excruciating circumstances, to say the least – and considering his Nationwide wins – at Texas, Phoenix and Mexico City, over three straight weeks – and considering his Truck tour wins – at California and Atlanta – and then also consider he could easily have opened the NASCAR season with a win in the Daytona 500 too…..well, it’s been a breathless romp.
That’s eight major wins over seven different types of tracks.
The only weak links so far in his armor, the Bristol and Martinsville short tracks; and his short-track performances at Phoenix and Richmond would appear to show he’s got good stuff for that part of the tour too. That, plus teammate Denny Hamlin’s Martinsville win.
About the only question now is Busch so hot that he’s front-loaded the stock car racing season and may burnout.
Remember Jimmie Johnson and his famous August crash….or Dale Earnhardt Sr. and his famous summer slumps…
Just keeping up with the grind of the 10-month tour is hard enough, much less maintaining such a sizzling pace.
Kyle Busch knows how to smoke those Goodyears
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What’s happening at the moment, though, is quite the opposite: Kyle Busch is demoralizing much of the competition.
Anyone who might have had questions about those Toyota engines and engineering and aerodynamic game plans, well, crumple them up and throw ‘em away.
And those riled up fans still miffed at Busch’s tussle with Dale Earnhardt Jr. at Richmond, well, Busch is letting all that stuff just roll right off his back…in classic Dale Sr. style: Give ‘em that big grin and keep on walking.
What may be even more worrisome than Busch’s current hot streak is that his teammates, Tony Stewart and Hamlin, could just as easily start making these deals 1-2-3s. Look at how dominant Hamlin was at Richmond, and Stewart has been hot too, though he’s still winless.
Just like Dale Sr., Kyle Busch seems to be thriving on the attention and the heat: “We just need to keep that bull’s-eye on us. Guys are looking at us and worrying about us. We’re the target they’re shooting for.”
And the winner bows to Darlington’s sellout crowd
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And Busch is realist enough to realize that Earnhardt Jr. and Carl Edwards are going to be some of his toughest completion in the coming two weeks at Charlotte, beginning with this week’s annual All-Star affair.
“We’re on top of the game for right now,” Busch says. “But Carl is going to be right with us next weekend. And there were a lot of cars that tested well at Charlotte.”
It was almost funny early Saturday night listening to Busch on the radio to crew chief Steve Addington (who, after a couple dry seasons, is loving every bit of this, beer cans, insults and all), Busch complaining that his car was “pathetic.”
At the time Busch was not only leading the race but pulling away from the field.
It’s probably good for the fans that Busch’s Toyota wasn’t in tip-top shape….
Kyle Busch certainly whipped the competition at Darlington
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“It just doesn’t turn, it doesn’t want to do what it needs to do here,” Busch explained. Of course going into one of these tight 1950s corners at 200 mph and it’s a wonder anyone came out the other side.
“This place became aero-tight—one of those aero-sensitive tracks, because there is only one lane you can run around this place that is the fast way around, and any time you want to get by somebody, you just have to save your stuff and try to maneuver past them somehow,” Busch added.
And, yes, with a straight face.
Darlington, aero-sensitive Saturday night. Uh, Kyle, might want to check the right side of your car and see just how aerodynamic that side looks in yaw.
Well, maybe it was aero-sensitive. At 200 mph it ought to be. But then give Busch credit for manhandling his machine.
After a fourth-straight sellout crowd of 67,000, Darlington Raceway boss Chris Browning may need to build more seats
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But, really, this was the key Saturday night…and this is Busch’s real talent at the moment: “You have to be out of control…and I was pretty much out of control, trying to hold onto the thing.
“How many times did I hit the wall? I don’t know. One, two, three, four…probably five or six.
“After we ran about 15 or 20 laps (into a 75-lap run), the rest of the guys fell off so much, we could just keep ticking along and keep going.”
Of course running fast and out of control is Greg Biffle’s forte too, and he was about the only guy who could match Busch. Unfortunately Biffle had mechanical problems and was sidelined, finishing 39th.
Steve Addington’s pit crew gives Kyle Busch winning service...after a few miscues
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Like most NASCAR racers, when they get on a run like Busch is on, there is a bit of the mystical about it. “To win here, at a place that’s so hard—whether it’s old asphalt or new asphalt, the regular car or the new car, it’s just unbelievable the way this race goes about, and the way things happened,” Busch conceded.
Busch himself had to rally from a lap down after a lug-nut penalty by NASCAR, a penalty that might have doomed a lesser team.
And then, after the win, Busch is becoming renowned for his celebratory burnouts. Not just a good ol’ smoky burnout, but a slick exit out the driver’s window to a pose atop the car, with all that thick Goodyear smoke enveloping him.
“A good burnout…then I can’t get out of the car fast enough, man,” Busch says with a grin. “I need to work on that.
“I’d get out of there, then I’m up on top, I appear, then I do a bow: ‘Thank you very much…have a nice day.’
“I’m trying to get more smoke built up before I get out. I’m working on it.”
It really is a quite a work of showmanship.
Kyle Busch managed to get his battered Toyota into Darlington’s victory lane, but it will need a lot of repairs before Charlotte
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Busch just turned 23….and the year he was born, 1985, was that brilliant 11-win season for Bill Elliott: Daytona, Atlanta, Darlington, Talladega, Dover….
Busch himself may be on track for just such a successful season too.
“This racetrack—don’t get me wrong, I don’t know all the history and heritage—but I know there’s a lot to it,” Busch says of NASCAR’s oldest ‘superspeedway’.
“Watching Carl Edwards with David Pearson, having the fun day he had (in a pre-race promotion two weeks ago)….then watching some of the highlights of races here,” Busch mused. “It’s fun to watch those and see what the track was like back in the heyday.
“But we’re running around here so fast now it’s confusing.”
No kidding.
Darlington boss Chris Browning (right) gives Jeff Burton an historic section of the old start-finish line
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The race itself was rather confusing, both inside the car and out.
But the key, as it appears to be this season, is to keep an eye on Kyle Busch. That’s the center of the hurricane.
But Busch was bouncing off the walls so hard it was difficult to believe he would even finish, much less win.
“To be honest with you, a year ago or two (if faced with so many wall-bangers) I probably would have just thrown my hands up and wrecked the thing,” Busch said. “But I’m getting smarter—not much, but just that much smarter to where I know we’ve got still a long race.
“Now if all that would have happened with 30 laps to go, I would have been junk, I would have probably folded in half.
Tony Stewart’s crew tries to bang out some of those Darlington dents
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“Fortunately there was still a long enough ways to go. Like two weeks ago at Talladega, where we had the same thing: a pit stop miscue, I didn’t get in my box, and had to drive through, and come back around. But there were still enough laps to go where we could rebound from it.
“So here, knowing there was enough time to rebound, I just laid back, stayed cool, tried to maneuver through traffic and do the best I could.
“I was able to get through about half the guys (in the field). Then my guys had another awesome pit stop, to get me a few more.
“And on that last stop, they got me out first.”
However that pit stop penalty for a missing lug nut could have cost Busch a shot at the win, and crew chief Steve Addington wasn’t happy:
“We’re looking to see if there’s something bad on the tube of glue or what. It’s the first time it’s happened all year.
“The first couple of stops, I didn’t even know it was happening. They never said anything, and they didn’t miss a beat.
“Then it (a lug nut or two) started falling off… and they just left it, because they thought they could get away with it (without NASCAR noticing). That’s when it was brought to my attention.
“I was pretty upset about it—thinking Kyle’s probably thinking we have lost this whole deal, our pit crew’s falling apart….
“There was an issue, they’re looking into it, we’ll get it resolved.”
Greg Biffle led 95 laps early before engine problems knocked him out of the hunt
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J. D. Gibbs, who has spent the last 10 years or so dealing with Stewart’s own emotional crises, is keeping cool about Busch’s current controversies: “A guy comes along, and when he starts to do well, there’s an issue,” Gibbs says, with a nod toward men like Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Darrell Waltrip. “Over time, as the guys get older, people start to appreciate what they’re doing on the track.
“And Kyle is learning too.”
After all Busch has only three full NASCAR seasons under his belt.
“This is a lot of attention he hasn’t had,” Gibbs points out. “As he learns and grows with that, we’ll be in good shape.
“That’s just a matter of time.”
JD Gibbs, after years of handling Tony Stewart, knows what Kyle Busch is going through
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And Busch himself is – though this may be a little hard to see at times – is learning humility: “You’ve got to stay humble in this sport. Anything can come out and bite you at any time…especially here at Darlington.
“And it tried about five times. Fortunately for me I just didn’t hit hard enough, and I was still able to win the thing.
“And you look at racers here from the past….Jeff Gordon, when he won his Million deal…Jeff Burton when he won here in the rain. There’s a lot of heritage and history to this deal.”
Kyle Busch just added his own chapter Saturday night. And it probably won’t be his last here.
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Indiana Jones bullwhips? Or ‘snakes?’ Kyle Busch’s Darlington crew
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Kyle Busch azota la competición otra vez, y agrega Darlington a su lista de los triunfos de NAS
Kyle Busch wins again, and takes aim next at the Charlotte All-Star race
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Kyle Busch gana otra vez, y las tomas apuntan después a la raza de la All-Star de Charlotte
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Seis semanas rectas ahora, y seis triunfos grandes de NASCAR para Kyle Busch, y él ganan ciertamente estas cosas con absolutamente un instinto.
Pero para Busch, ahora apenas dado vuelta 23, no es justo sobre los triunfos que él está atormentando para arriba, o el estilo del showmanship él está ofreciendo a muchedumbres....it’s realmente sobre la batalla del campeonato de NASCAR él está emprendiendo, ahora a medio camino a través de la raza a la persecución de la segunda fase.
Considerando las victorias de Sprint Cup de Busch esta estación - noche de Atlanta, de Talladega y aquí de sábado, los 500 milers, todos bajo circunstancias algo atroces, decir el lo menos - y en vista de sus triunfos a nivel nacional - en Texas, Phoenix y Ciudad de México, sobre tres semanas rectas - y considerando su viaje del carro lo gana - en California y Atlanta - y después también considera habría podido abrir fácilmente la estación de NASCAR con un triunfo en el Daytona 500 también.....well, él se es un jugueteo sin aliento.
Ése es ocho triunfos importantes sobre siete diversos tipos de pistas.
Los únicos acoplamientos débiles hasta ahora en su armadura, las pistas cortas de Bristol y de Martinsville; y sus funcionamientos de la corto-pista en Phoenix y Richmond aparecerían demostrar que él tiene la buena materia para esa parte del viaje también.
Kyle Busch knows how to smoke those Goodyears
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Kyle Busch sabe fumar eso Goodyears
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Eso, más el triunfo de Martinsville de Denny Hamlin del compañero de equipo.
Sobre la única pregunta ahora está Busch tan caliente que lo delantero-cargan la estación común el competir con de coche y puede quemadura.
Recuerde que cae Jimmie Johnson y su famoso Dale Earnhardt Sr. del desplome....or de agosto y su verano famoso… Apenas el continuar con la rutina del viaje de diez meses es difícilmente bastante, mucho menos mantener un paso tan que chisporrotea.
Qué está sucediendo en el momento, aunque, está absolutamente el contrario: Kyle Busch está desmoralizando mucha de la competición.
Cualquier persona que pudo haber hecho que las preguntas sobre esos motores e ingeniería de Toyota y las estrategias aerodinámicas, las arruguen bien para arriba y que lancen el ‘ em lejos.
Qué puede ser aún más worrisome que la raya caliente actual de Busch es que podrían sus compañeros de equipo, Stewart tony y Hamlin, apenas pues el comienzo que hacía estos mirada de los repartos 1-2-3s. en cómo Hamlin dominante estaba en Richmond, y Stewart ha sido fácilmente caliente también, aunque él sigue siendo winless.
Justo como Dale Sr., Kyle Busch se parece prosperar en la atención y el calor: “apenas necesitamos guardar ese blanco en nosotros. Los individuos nos están mirando y se están preocupando de nosotros. Somos la blanco que están tirando para.”
Y Busch es realista bastante para realizar que el Jr. y Carl Edwards de Earnhardt van a ser algo de su terminación más resistente de las dos semanas que vienen en Charlotte, comenzando con el asunto anual de la All-Star race de esta semana.
“estamos encima del juego para ahora,” Busch dice. “solamente Carl va a tener razón con nosotros el fin de semana próximo. Y había muchos de los coches que probaron bien en Charlotte.”
Era noche temprana casi divertida de sábado que escuchaba Busch en la radio el equipo principal Steve Addington (quién, después de estaciones secas de un par, está amando cada pedacito de el, de latas de cerveza, de insultos y de todos), Busch que se quejaba de que su coche era “pathetic.”
Cuando Busch conducía no sólo la raza sino tiraba lejos del campo.
And the winner bows to Darlington’s sellout crowd
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Y los arcos del ganador a la muchedumbre del sellout de Darlington
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Es probablemente bueno para los ventiladores que Toyota de Busch no estaba en forma de la inclinar-tapa....
“apenas no da vuelta, él no desea hacer qué necesita hacer aquí,” Busch explicado.
Por supuesto el entrar una de estas esquinas apretadas de los años 50 en 200 mph y él es una maravilla que cualquier persona vino fuera del otro lado.
“este lugar llegó a ser aero--apretado—una de esas pistas aero--sensibles, porque hay solamente un carril que usted puede funcionar alrededor de este lugar que sea la manera rápida alrededor, y cualquier momento usted desea pasar a alguien, usted apenas tiene que ahorrar su materia e intento para maniobrar más allá de ellos de alguna manera,” Busch agregado.
Y, sí, con una cara recta.
Darlington, noche aero--sensible de sábado.
Uh, Kyle, pudo desear comprobar el derecho de su coche y ver apenas cómo es aerodinámico que el lado mira en desvío.
Bien, era quizá aero--sensible.
En 200 mph ought estar.
Kyle Busch certainly whipped the competition at Darlington
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Kyle Busch azotó ciertamente la competición en Darlington
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Pero entonces dé el crédito de Busch para manipular su máquina.
Pero, realmente, ésta era la noche dominante de sábado… y éste es talento verdadero de Busch en el momento: “usted tiene que estar fuera de control… y era bonito mucho fuera del control, intentando sostener sobre la cosa.
¿"cuántas veces golpeé la pared? No sé. Un, dos, tres, cuatro… probablemente cinco o seises.
“después de que funcionamos cerca de 15 o 20 regazos (en un 75-lap funcionado), el resto de los individuos se cayó tanto, podríamos apenas guardar el hacer tictac adelante y guardar el ir.”
Por supuesto el funcionamiento rápidamente y de control es forte de Greg Biffle también, y él estaba sobre el único individuo que podría emparejar Busch.
Desafortunadamente Biffle tenía problemas mecánicos y estaba sidelined, acabando 39.os.
After a fourth-straight sellout crowd of 67,000, Darlington Raceway boss Chris Browning may need to build more seats
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Después de una muchedumbre cuarto-recta del sellout de 67.000, Chris Browning, jefe de Darlington, puede necesitar construir más asientos
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Como la mayoría de los corredores de NASCAR, cuando consiguen en funcionar como Busch hay encendido, es el un poco mystical sobre él.
“para ganar aquí, en un lugar que es tan duro—si es viejo asfalto o asfalto nuevo, el coche regular o el coche nuevo, es apenas increíble la manera que va esta raza alrededor, y las cosas de la manera sucedieron,” Busch concedidas.
Busch mismo tuvo que reunirse de un regazo abajo después de una pena de NASCAR, una pena de la arrastrar-tuerca que pudo haber condenado a un poco equipo.
Y entonces, después de que el triunfo, Busch esté llegando a ser renombrado para sus quemaduras celebratory.
No apenas quemadura ahumada de un buen ol ‘, pero una salida pulida fuera de la ventana del conductor a una actitud encima del coche, con todo el el cual humo grueso de Goodyear que lo envuelve.
“una buena quemadura… entonces que no puedo salir del coche rápidamente bastante, el hombre,” Busch dice con una mueca.
“necesito trabajar en eso.
“saldría de allí, después estoy para arriba en tapa, yo aparezco, después hago un arco: ‘ gracias mucho… tienen un día agradable.’
“estoy intentando conseguir más humo acumulado antes de que salga. Estoy trabajando en él.”
Steve Addington’s pit crew gives Kyle Busch winning service...after a few miscues
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El equipo de Steve Addington da el servicio que gana de Kyle Busch… después de algunos miscues
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Realmente es absolutamente un trabajo del showmanship.
Busch acaba de dar vuelta… a.ao 23 el año que él nació, 1985, era que brillante 11-gane la estación para la cuenta Elliott: Daytona, Atlanta, Darlington, Talladega, Dover....
Busch mismo puede estar en la pista por apenas una estación tan acertada también.
“este racetrack—no me consiga el mal, no sé toda la historia y herencia—pero sé que hay mucho a ella,” Busch dice del ‘ superspeedway más viejo ‘ de NASCAR’s.
“Carl que miraba Edwards con David Pearson, teniendo el día de la diversión él tenía (en una promoción de la pre-raza el ago)....then de dos semanas que miraba algunos de los toques de luz de razas aquí,” Busch mused.
“es diversión para mirar ésos y para ver cuáles era la pista como la parte posteriora en el apogeo.
Kyle Busch managed to get his battered Toyota into Darlington’s victory lane, but it will need a lot of repairs before Charlotte
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Kyle Busch manejado para conseguir su Toyota dañado gravemente en el carril de la victoria de Darlington, pero él necesitará muchos de reparaciones antes de Charlotte
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“solamente estamos funcionando alrededor de aquí así que rápido es confuso ahora.”
El ningún embromar. La raza sí mismo era algo dentro del coche y hacia fuera confusa.
Pero la llave, pues aparece ser esta estación, es vigilar Kyle Busch.
Ése es el centro del huracán.
Pero Busch despedía de las paredes así que era difícilmente difícil creer que él incluso acabaría, mucho menos triunfo.
Darlington boss Chris Browning (right) gives Jeff Burton an historic section of the old start-finish line
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Chris Browning, jefe de Darlington, (derecho) da Jeff Burton que una sección histórica del viejo empezar-acaba la línea
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“para ser honesto con usted, un año hace o dos (si está hecho frente con tan muchos pared-wall-bangers) acababa de lanzar probablemente mis manos para arriba y arruinado la cosa,” Busch dijo.
“solamente estoy consiguiendo más elegante—no mucho, sino apenas ése mucho más elegante donde sé a nosotros todavía tenemos una raza larga.
“ahora si toda que habrían sucedido con 30 regazos ir, yo hubiera sido la chatarra, habría doblado probablemente por la mitad.
“afortunadamente todavía había las maneras suficientemente largas de ir. Como hace dos semanas en Talladega, donde teníamos la misma cosa: un miscue de la parada del hoyo, no conseguí en mi caja, y tuve que conducir a través, y volverse alrededor. Pero había aún bastante traslapa para ir a adonde podríamos rebotar de ella.
Tony Stewart’s crew tries to bang out some of those Darlington dents
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El equipo de Stewart tony intenta golpear fuera de algunas de esas abolladuras de Darlington
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“tan aquí, el saber allí era bastante tiempo de rebotar, yo acaba de reclinar, permanecido fresco, intentado maniobrar con tráfico y hacer el mejor podría.
“podía conseguir con alrededor mitad de los individuos (en el campo). Entonces mis individuos tenían otra parada impresionante del hoyo, para conseguirme algún más.
“y en esa parada pasada, me consiguieron hacia fuera primera.”
Sin embargo esa pena de la parada del hoyo para una tuerca que falta del estirón habría podido costar a Busch un tiro en el triunfo, y el equipo principal Steve Addington no era feliz: “estamos mirando para ver si hay algo malo en el tubo del pegamento o qué. Es la primera vez que se sucede todo el año.
Greg Biffle led 95 laps early before engine problems knocked him out of the hunt
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Greg Biffle condujo 95 regazos tempranos antes de problemas del motor lo golpeó fuera de la caza
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“los primeros pares de paradas, incluso no sabía que sucedía. Nunca dijeron cualquier cosa, y no faltaron un golpe.
“entonces (una tuerca o dos del estirón) comenzó a bajar… y ellos apenas de a la izquierda él, porque los pensaron podría conseguir lejos con él (sin NASCAR que nota). Ése es cuando fue traída a mi atención.
“estuve trastornado bastante sobre él—que de Kyle de pensamiento probablemente pensando hemos perdido este reparto entero, nuestro equipo del hoyo que caía aparte....
“había una edición, ellos está mirando en ella, nosotros la conseguirá resuelta.”
J. D. Gibbs, que ha pasado los 10 años pasados o tan ocuparse de propias crisis emocionales de Stewart, está manteniendo fresco sobre las controversias actuales de Busch: “un individuo viene adelante, y cuando él comienza a hacer bien, hay una edición,” Gibbs dice, con un cabeceo hacia hombres como Dale Earnhardt Sr. y Darrell Waltrip.
“en un cierto plazo, como los individuos consigue más viejo, comienzo de la gente apreciar lo que él está haciendo en la pista.
“y Kyle está aprendiendo también.”
JD Gibbs, after years of handling Tony Stewart, knows what Kyle Busch is going through
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JD Gibbs, después de años de dirigir Tony Stewart, sabe qué Kyle Busch va a través
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Después de todo el Busch tiene solamente tres estaciones completas de NASCAR debajo de su correa.
“éste es muchos de atención que él no ha tenido,” Gibbs precisa.
“pues él aprende y crece con ése, estaremos en buena forma.
“que es apenas una cuestión de tiempo.”
Y Busch mismo es - aunque esto puede ser un poco duro de ver ocasionalmente - está aprendiendo humildad: “usted tiene permanecer humilde en este deporte.
Cualquier cosa puede salir y morderle en cualquier momento… especialmente aquí en Darlington.
“e intentó cerca de cinco veces. Afortunadamente para mí apenas no golpeé difícilmente bastante, y todavía podía ganar la cosa.
“y usted mira a corredores aquí del último....Jeff Gordon, cuando él ganó su millón de repartos… Jeff Burton cuando él ganó aquí en la lluvia. Hay muchos de herencia y de historia a este reparto.”
Kyle Busch acaba de agregar su propia noche de sábado del capítulo.
Y no será probablemente su último aquí.
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Indiana Jones bullwhips? Or ‘snakes?’ Kyle Busch’s Darlington crew
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¿Bullwhips de Indiana Jones? O ‘ serpientes?’ Equipo de Darlington de Kyle Busch
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Kyle Busch: the next Dale Earnhardt Sr.? Well, he’s tough as nails, and a darned hard driver!
The new Dale Sr.? Kyle Busch has the flare, the talent and the attitude...and he’s on a championship track
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By Mike Mulhern
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DARLINGTON, S.C.
Kyle Busch seems almost unstoppable in the NASCAR world. And he certainly played a good ‘Indiana Jones’ Saturday night, escaping from certain disaster time and again all evening.
Busch, with a car painted up to promote Harrison Ford’s new thriller, provided plenty of thrills of his own in winning the Dodge Challenger 500, man-handling his battered Toyota in winning by more than three seconds over Carl Edwards.
It wasn’t a bit pretty, as races go; in fact it was downright ragged, with drivers bouncing off the walls all night. But Busch made it a heroic night, with another amazing performance, this one even better than that stunning victory at Atlanta back in March.
And the car Busch rolled into Darlington Raceway’s victory lane was so battered and bruised that it’s a wonder it could even roll.
Jeff Gordon, surprised at finishing third himself, said “I can’t tell you how many times Kyle tried to give this race away by hitting the wall. I can’t tell you how many times he hit the wall. It certainly wasn’t aerodynamics that won this one, because his car was all beat up.
“He is an incredibly talented driver.
“And I heard more noise for Kyle here than I’ve ever heard. I remember when I came in this sport, Dale Sr. always got the most noise from the crowd too.”
So call Kyle Busch NASCAR’s new Iron Man. He takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin.
And with his win in the 500-miler, Busch, who just turned 23, stretches his Sprint Cup tour points lead.
The crashing started early at Darlington: Elliott Sadler and Tony Stewart lap two Saturday night
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Every lap, all 367, seemed like a wreck just waiting to happen, though miraculously there were only eight cautions.
Yes, Busch may indeed be a ‘wild thang’ out on the track, but there is no doubting his talents – this was his eighth NASCAR national touring victory of the season, his third on the Cup tour, along with three Nationwide wins and two Truck wins. That’s downright astounding.
Busch was exhausted, like most drivers: “This is pretty awesome. Even with the fresh asphalt this place was tough.
“We’re going to go through a lot of tools this week fixing this thing.
“But this is pretty cool.
“However the car just doesn’t turn, just doesn’t want to turn. And there is only one lane around this place.”
Kyle Busch had some pit stop issues with loose lugnuts, and he had to rebound from a one-lap NASCAR penalty, but wound up winning Saturday night’s Darlington 500 running away
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Carl Edwards started 36th but rallied to second. “It’s good, I’m okay with it,” Edwards said. “The fastest car won. But I wanted to beat them so badly.
“Our pit crew came back. We were 43rd on the sheet the first day of practice, and I was down in the dumps. I was terrible. I thought this race was going to be a disaster.
“But to come back to finish second, well, the fastest car won.
“They ought to open this track to everybody in South Carolina and let them drive around here all day every day and wear this asphalt out. That’s what it needs.”
Gordon moved up to 10th in the standings but he’s still winless and he was not happy: “We’re definitely making big strides.
“Making good calls was key. All I tried to do was keep it off the walls. It was pretty much what I expected for new asphalt and new tires.
“I’m happy we got a top-five, a third, but I’m frustrated by how far off we are. We’ve got some work to do.”
Kyle Busch (18) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. could well be two of the top NASCAR championship contenders this season
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Dale Earnhardt Jr., last weekend’s controversial battler with Busch, finished fourth. “We had a real good car most of the week, though when the race started we weren’t quite like we had been. We were off a little bit.
“And you just could not pass. This was the worst I’ve ever seen it for not being able to pass.”
Busch had lug nut problems throughout the race, and he was even penalized a lap for having one missing after a stop. But he rallied back into contention…on a night when most of the field opted to play it very, very conservatively.
It was one of the strangest races ever at Darlington Raceway, and that goes a ways, considering this place has been around since 1950. But then running 200 mph at a track originally designed for cars maxed out at 135 mph, well, you’d expect some weirdness.
The race was only seconds old when the first incident took Tony Stewart and Elliott Sadler out of contention. Sadler got into the corner under Stewart and slid up into him. This is one of the few tracks on the NASCAR tour that Stewart has never won at. Sadler blamed himself: “I just made a huge mistake. I was trying to give him room but slipped. I don’t blame him if he’s mad at me.”
Greg Biffle was strong early, but a flurry of mechanic issues sidelined him. And Biffle was angry over those problems.
Drivers slapped the walls and each other throughout the four-hour race, in what was a night of frustration all the way around.
Denny Hamlin, who dominated Richmond a week ago only to lose with a flat tire just 20 laps from the finish, ran strong too, until Martin Truex Jr. and Hamlin, battling for seventh, tangled when Truex ran into Hamlin with 65 laps to go in the 367-lapper.
At that point, despite the bruising action, 21 cars were still on the lead lap.
Biffle started from the pole and led a lot early but loose wheels cost him. And Biffle was not happy with his team. “It is really frustrating, but I’ve just become accustomed to it…because week after week it’s something: something breaks, something falls off,” Biffle said after going out 39th.
“We’ve got wheels loose. We had wheels loose twice.
“I know everybody is trying their hardest, the guys are digging their hearts out. But the fact of the matter is in this sport, in this day and age, you cannot leave wheels loose. Not at this place, this fast. Somebody is going to get hurt….
“And there was another mechanical issue – It seems like it’s in the carburetor to me, because it doesn’t want to run.
“It’s just real frustrating. I give it 110 percent as a driver all the time….and you want your equipment to last, and be able to win these races. They’re so hard to win these days.
“You can deal with a flat tire or something like that. But when it’s self-induced, it makes it even harder to take. It makes it so hard to swallow.
“Multiple things have happened each race, and we’ve usually been lucky enough to slip through by the skin of our teeth. At Texas we weren’t able to (he finished 39th there too), and here we weren’t able to.”
It was a tough night for Dodge—another tough night – with none of its drivers ever in contention.
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