Kyle Busch has been in the headlines all week long after his tangle with Dale Earnhardt Jr. in Richmond and will try to put the incident further behind him with a good run in the Dodge Challenger 500 at Darlington Raceway.
Since the celebrated tangle with Earnhardt in last Saturday night's race, there has been talk of a budding feud between the two.
While neither driver feels their is any type of feud brewing because of the accident, Busch is fine with either scenario.
“I don’t care. It’s whatever is the best for NASCAR," he said. "We’re here to have a job. If our job is being in NASCAR, then whatever we can do to get people in the stands and get viewership on TV, then that’s what we need. That’s what is going to drive sponsorship to the sport and keep everything going.”
Busch would like to get going this weekend at Darlington after struggling in Friday night's Nationwide Series race. He was caught up in an accident just past the race's halfway point when he tried to get around a slower car.
That move sent Busch into the wall and out of the race - and not surprisingly didn't make him too happy.
He'll try to change that mood in Saturday night's Sprint Cup race when he takes the green flag from the sixth position.
But Busch knows the race will be a challenge on the already tough Darlington track's new asphalt surface.
“It’s really fast," Busch said. "For a race track as narrow as it is and for as hard as it was to get around here already and try to race two-wide it’s going to be that much harder yet in order to try to keep going that fast and run side-by-side."
"Running side-by-side is really going to slow you down a tremendous amount now, and you’re going to lose too much to the guys in front of you and behind you so you won’t be able to see much of that.”
His third Sprint Cup win of the season would be a satisfying end to Busch's week especially at a place like Darlington with its history and tradition.
“It’s a good hard track that you don’t really know what can happen of it," he said. "It’s a hard place to understand exactly, and how to get around here exactly the fast way, anyway. People are going to say that it’s always the track named ‘Too Tough to Tame’ but it’s still a good place to show who is pretty good.”
