Kyle Busch drives into history books: The New England 200 Review

Another Nationwide Race is in the books this week, and I’ll give you 3 guesses on who won.

Nope, you only wish she did.

Nope not Brad.

That’s right! It was Kyle Busch! Busch also set 3 records in one race. THREE!

Kyle became the first repeat winner at Loudon in the Nationwide Series in 24 races there. That’s record number one.

He also has taken the lead of ALL TIME LAPS LED in the Nationwide Series - Kyle now has 8,117 laps led over Mark Martin’s 8,082 laps led. I don’t see Mark coming back to Nationwide anytime soon, and I don’t see Kyle stopping racing in the Nationwide Series anytime soon so he’ll build on that total.

Kyle also pulled in to a tie for second most Nationwide Series wins. Mark Martin has the most with 48 wins, while Busch and Kevin Harvick are tied with 36 wins. Either of these two could overtake Martin in two years.

I can see Busch trying to race full time next season. He’s got 6 wins in 13 starts this year. So there is a good chance he’ll get to 40 wins before the season is done.

Round 4 of the Danica Patrick Experiment was just as dissapointing as the first 3 rounds. Althought this time it wasn’t her fault. For once. It was god’s. Or god’s race car driver anyway. Racing W/ Jesus driver Morgan Shepherd (get it! His last name is Shepherd, so he’s god’s desciple.)

I don’t mean to take anything away from Morgan. He’s a great guy. He’s an inspiration to old guys who want to keep racing, though not as much of an inspiration as Mark Martin. But Morgan hasn’t been a good Nationwide driver since.....1988? I was 4 years old in 1988.

Morgan has only 4 career Cup series wins; 1981 (I wasn’t born then), 1986, 1990 and 1993. ‘93 was the last time that Morgan ever won in Nascar. He finished 5th in Cup points in 1990 (his highest ever) but hasn’t raced a full season in anything since 1996. You could make the case that Shepherd should be in the truck series full time, but he’s never won in a truck. He’s actually never finished in the top 10 in the truck series either.

Danica got taken out by a pretty old dude, who probably shouldn’t even be out there. I have no problem with him wanting to own a car, but there are guys 1/4 of his age that he could have driving for him. So Patrick was a non-factor and finished 6 laps off the lead. It sucked not to see what she could do. What sucks even more is that she will not be driving the New Nationwide Car next week at Daytona, a track that even Morgan Shepherd could win at.

Well, Results, Points and more after the JUMP!

- So glad they pulled Scott Lagasse again. Brad Baker finished really good up there in 36th.

- Baker Curb seems to have begun to Start and Park. How can Nascar not be looking into dropping prices?

- What will the entry list for Daytonalook like? Are there going to be 43 new Nationwide cars entered? Guess we will find out.

- Brad Keselowski earned another 10 points on Carl Edwards.

Here’s how the points are looking:

- I can’t seem to find a way for Keso not to win the Championship. It would take Carl Edwards or Justin Allgaier going on a holy war and Keso having A LOT of problems.

- Good news for Joe Nemechek is bad news for Eric McClure. Nemechek crawled back into the top 30 while McClure limped outside of the top 30. McClure is racing hurt, and racing bad. Nemechek is doing just enough to keep him in the races.

Here’s the battle:

This might just be the most interesting battle on the track right now. Stenhouse isn’t out of it yet. All it takes is one top 10 and he could be right back in the top 30.

Here’s some bad news for 4ever3’s Dale Jr Plan:

On Friday, Dale Earnhardt Jr. will slide into the seat of the #3 Wrangler Chevy for the Nationwide Series race at Daytona. Until that moment, he cannot know how that car number on his door, and everything that goes with it may affect him. Especially at that track. But, according to latest reports, he is fairly certain about one thing: this will be the last time he drives a race car with the #3 on the door. “I just want to go to the racetrack and run it once before I retire, andthis will probably be it. After this, I’ll probably never drive a car with a 3 on it again. I can pretty much say I’m 99 percent sure that will never happen again.”

Now, 1 % could easily explode to 100%.

Officials from Jennifer Jo Cobb Racing and Baker Curb Racing announced they will partner for the four 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) events featuring the new car this season. Jennifer Jo Cobb will drive the #27 Driven Ford Mustang this weekend at Daytona. JJCR and BCR decided that it was in each team’sbest interest to combine their resources for the events featuring the next generation race car. With each organization being a smaller, independent race team, JJCR and BCR aim to make a concerted effort as NASCAR transitions to its latest vehicle.

So next week we will not only see the NEW Nationwide Cars, featuring a Dodge Challenger, Toyota Camry, Chevrolet Impala, and the Ford Mustang. But we will also see the Blue and Yellow #3 Wrangler Chevy with an Earnhardt behind the wheel.

And we will see Jennifer Jo Cobb in the Nationwide Series. Look out Danica! So, tune in July 2nd (that’s a Friday) under the lights at 7:00pm on ESPN to see the Subway Jalapeno 250 from Daytona! Enjoy!