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Kyle Busch currently not planning to run full Nationwide schedule
By SceneDaily Staff
Friday, March 28, 2008
Chris McGrath
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MARTINSVILLE, Va. – Television viewers all over the country have watched Kyle Busch get out of his Nationwide Series cars and angrily dismiss the cameras and reporters over the last few weeks.
Misfortune in that series has been a constant for Busch, who began the year with back-to-back second-place finishes to lead the points but has finished 31st, 24th, 42nd and 16th in the four races since.
Last week, he even spun himself out while leading the race at Nashville.
As a result, the one-time thought of running the full Nationwide Series schedule is quickly fading.
“Probably for now, I’m going to decide to back out of adding more races,” Busch said Friday at Martinsville Speedway. “We haven’t done any of that yet. The thought is still to go to Mexico, but I’m trying to get out of that if I can now.”
Busch knows how he comes across to TV viewers and fans when he refuses to speak after wrecks or spins on the track.
“People either love me or hate me – so love me or hate me, I don’t care,” he said. “You know? It’s just my personality is what it is. When stuff happens, like the past few weeks on the Nationwide side, I get out of the car and [angrily walk away], that’s my fire. I’m not there to run around and spin myself out with however many laps to go. I was awfully upset at myself – it was my fault ultimately.
“People want us to show our emotion and [be] ourselves and go out there and do whatever we do outside the race car, and then they criticize us for it. So you can’t ever win – it’s an uphill battle.”
As far as all the misfortune in the Nationwide races, Busch said he does not let it affect him.
“It’s not that I don’t care, but I don’t,” he said. “What are you going to do about it? All I can do is go out there and do good. People say you’d rather be lucky than good? Well I’ve never really believed in that. I’d rather be good and have the luck follow, if you can have it.”
Mentioned Drivers: Kyle Busch
2009 Sprint Cup Race for the Chase Standings
Driver Standings after the Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500
| 1 | Jimmie Johnson | 6492 |
| 2 | Mark Martin | -108 |
| 3 | Jeff Gordon | -169 |
| 4 | Kurt Busch | -211 |
| 5 | Tony Stewart | -285 |
| 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya | -289 |
| 7 | Greg Biffle | -321 |
| 8 | Denny Hamlin | -352 |
| 9 | Ryan Newman | -411 |
| 10 | Kasey Kahne | -476 |
| 11 | Carl Edwards | -520 |
| 12 | Brian Vickers | -666 |
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