{"id":5158,"date":"2011-05-12T23:58:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T04:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-05-12T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T01:59:00","slug":"kyle-busch-king-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/kyle-busch-king-concrete\/","title":{"rendered":"KYLE BUSCH -King of the Concrete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KYLE BUSCH -King of the Concrete<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HUNTERSVILLE, N.C.  \u2013 Over the course of the past three seasons, there hasn\u2019t been a driver more dominant on NASCAR\u2019s concrete surfaces than Kyle Busch. In fact, he could easily be called the \u201cKing of the Concrete,\u201d for the talented 26-year-old has 17 wins at concrete-clad ovals dating back to 2008 \u2013 a run that includes drives in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.<\/p>\n<p>Dover (Del.) International Speedway, site of Sunday\u2019s FedEx 400 benefitting Autism Speaks Sprint Cup race, is one of three concrete tracks that hosts NASCAR\u2019s top-three divisions. Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway is the other, while Nashville (Tenn.) Superspeedway, hosts only Nationwide and Truck Series races.<br \/>\n <!--more--><br \/>\nBusch\u2019s cumulative track record at these venues is impressive. Consider\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7      At Dover, he has two Sprint Cup wins, three Nationwide Series wins and one Truck Series win. All but the Truck Series win (2005) came in the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7      At Bristol, Busch has five Sprint Cup wins, three Nationwide Series wins and three Truck Series wins. All but two \u2013 a Sprint Cup win in March 2007 and a Nationwide Series win in March 2006 \u2013 have been earned in the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7      And at Nashville, Busch has a Nationwide Series win and two Truck Series wins \u2013 all in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>That gives Busch 20 victories across these concrete tracks. And now Busch, the winner of two Sprint Cup races already this season, is hungry for more.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the No. 18 M&#038;M\u2019s Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) is ready to feast at Dover, where in the lead-up to Sunday\u2019s Sprint Cup race, he\u2019ll begin the weekend with Friday\u2019s Truck Series race and Saturday\u2019s Nationwide Series race. But the main focus is on the FedEx 400, where Busch plans on delivering his 22nd career Sprint Cup victory and his third at the aptly named \u201cMonster Mile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Should Busch end up in the winner\u2019s circle after successfully slaying the Monster, plan on a feast fit for a king \u2013 the \u201cKing of the Concrete.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYLE BUSCH -King of the Concrete HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. \u2013 Over the course of the past three seasons, there hasn\u2019t been a driver more dominant on NASCAR\u2019s concrete surfaces than Kyle Busch. In fact, he could easily be called the \u201cKing of the Concrete,\u201d for the talented 26-year-old has 17 wins at concrete-clad ovals dating back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[15775],"class_list":["post-5158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}