DOVER, Del. — Kyle Busch heard the critics who said he was too good, too dominant, too loaded with the best equipment to keep dropping down levels and routinely romping his way toward victories. ADVERTISING DOVER, Del. — Kyle Busch
DOVER, Del. — Kyle Busch heard the critics who said he was too good, too dominant, too loaded with the best equipment to keep dropping down levels and routinely romping his way toward victories.
His response from Victory Lane, too bad.
Busch raced to his second victory of the weekend at Dover, taking the checkered flag Saturday in the Nationwide Series race to set himself up for a tripleheader sweep.
“I do it for the pure love of the sport and just wanting to be out there,” Busch said. “I’ll keep doing it as long as we can do it.”
Busch followed his dominant win Friday night in the Truck Series with another stellar run in Nationwide. He led 124 of 200 laps for his 66th career victory in NASCAR’s second-tier series. He has 134 wins spread over NASCAR’s three major series, though he has yet to win a Cup championship or marquee races such as the Daytona 500, Brickyard 400, Coca-Cola 600 or All-Star race.
“I’ve got a 134 of ‘em now and none of them mean nothing,” Busch said. “Hopefully, someday, the big ones come.”
Busch had a three-race sweep in 2010 at Bristol, which he called the highlight of his career. He’ll start second behind pole-winner Brad Keselowski on Sunday in the 400-mile Sprint Cup race. He has one Cup victory this season.
“We unloaded fast and I think we’ll be OK tomorrow,” Busch said.
Former Daytona 500 champion Trevor Bayne was second. Bayne finished strong a week after he reached a deal to race fulltime next season for Roush Fenway Racing. Joey Logano, Matt Kenseth and Chase Elliott round out the top five. Series points leader Regan Smith was 10th.
Logano, the pole winner, had won the last four Nationwide races at Dover and would have tied a Nationwide record for consecutive wins at the same track with a victory.
DETROIT GRAND PRIX
DETROIT — Will Power gave Roger Penske and Chevrolet what they desperately wanted by winning the first of two races at the Detroit Grand Prix.
“On his home track and in Chevy’s backyard, it’s a perfect day,” Power said Saturday. “If we can do it again tomorrow, it’ll be even better.”
Power finished 0.3308 seconds ahead of Graham Rahal on the bumpy, 13-turn, 2.36-mile street circuit on Belle Isle.
He started a season-worst 16th and took the lead for good with just more than 10 laps to go when he passed Ryan Briscoe.
“There’s no way we thought we would come from 16th to win,” he said. “But this is IndyCar and anything can happen.”
The Australian held off Rahal to join Indianapolis 500 champion Ryan Hunter-Reay as the series’ drivers with two victories through six races. Power pulled within three points of Hunter-Reay, IndyCar’s points leader.
The Detroit Grand Prix is Sunday as part of IndyCar’s first of three doubleheaders this season.
Tony Kanaan was a season-best third followed by Justin Wilson and Helio Castroneves, who was the pole-sitter.
