Nov 8

Written by: The Commish
11/8/2011 9:26 AM 

Kyle Busch is an idiot.

With as much leeway as NASCAR has given the drivers re: 'have at it boys' he still couldn't resist crashing Ron Hornaday long after the caution lights went on early in the Friday night race at Texas.
 
And he didn't care.  Despite pleas for restraint and self control from the better angels that simply must be in there somewhere,  plus similar, real-time-audio requests from his crew chief Kyle Busch went with the deamons -- again.

There's a lot that can be said now about consequences, the probability of recurrences, projected issues with sponsors, family members, the she-had-to-know-what-she-was-getting-into wife and so much more ... much of it unkind.   Cool.  I'll talk to my buddies at the bar Wednesday night and we'll beat this subject to death.

And noting that is said will change my opionion that, all together now, Kyle Busch is an idiot.

Tony Stewart won his fourth race this season and good for him that it was also the fourth race of the Chase period; the consistency of the No. 14 team hasn't been as good as second-place finisher Carl Edwards yet Smoke is only 3 pts behind Flipper with two races to go.

Kasey Kahne, Matt Kenseth, Greg Biffle, Jeff Gordon and Dale Jr. were next ahead of Martin Truex, Clint Bowyer and A.J. Allmendinger.  Kevin Harvick was 13th in front of Jimmie Johnson, Paul Menard and Ryan Newman.  Denny Hamlin was 20th, Brad Keselowski was first Dodge in 24th, Kurt Busch was 30th and Michael McDowell came home 33rd in the M&Ms Toyota.

Trevor Bayne is no longer in danger of being a one-hit wonder.  The 2010 Daytona 500 champion won the Nationwide series race on Saturday over Denny Hamlin in Kyle's No. 18 car, most-laps-leader Carl Edwards, Clint Bowyer and Brad Keselowski.  NNS points leader Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was sixth in front of Sam Hornish, Joey Logano, Elliott Sadler and Brian Vickers.  Danica was 11th and Scott Speed was 43rd in his latest start ' park outing.

13 laps into the 148-lap truck race, ninth-place starter Ron Hornaday Jr. was battling fourth-place starter Kyle Busch when he got loose while underneath Shrub's Toyota and made contact; enough contact that the caution lights came on before it became obvious neither race truck was significantly damage although there might have been debris on the track.

But Kyle snapped and drove up to Hornaday and ran him into a wall at a much higher than yellow flag speed. 
Both trucks were really wrecked this time, Kyle was parked and suspended for the weekend and Hornaday's race and any shot at the championship were over.

So Harvick won over Austin Dillon, Ty Dioon, Nelson Piquet Jr. and Matt Crafton.  Ricky Carmichael was eighth, Toddy Bodine 13th, polesitter James Buescher was 19th after pitting late for fuel and Parker Kligerman was 28th.

Kyle Busch is an idiot.

This week it's Cup and Nationwide at the new Phoenix International Speedway and F1 at Yas Marina.  There's no betting against Vettel at Abu Dhabi and no favorite in either NASCAR race in Arizona because the track is completely new.  Starters aren't due until Friday night and we can all pick Kyle Busch at our own peril.

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