Sooner or later he’ll prove me right.
Every year I say Kyle Busch will win the Daytona 500. Then I stick my neck out and say, ‘This is it. This is the year the younger Busch wins the Brickyard 400.’ So far I’m 0-fer, and so is Busch at the two biggest races on the NASCAR schedule.
So my question is, when is he finally going to break in and make his mark? When will Kyle Busch finally make me look like I know what I’m talking about? He’s got talent, there’s no denying that, and 15 wins in the past three seasons backs that argument up. But when will Busch finally put it all together.
Every year I say Kyle Busch will win the Daytona 500. Then I stick my neck out and say, ‘This is it. This is the year the younger Busch wins the Brickyard 400.’ So far I’m 0-fer, and so is Busch at the two biggest races on the NASCAR schedule.
So my question is, when is he finally going to break in and make his mark? When will Kyle Busch finally make me look like I know what I’m talking about? He’s got talent, there’s no denying that, and 15 wins in the past three seasons backs that argument up. But when will Busch finally put it all together.
Busch walks onto pit road at Kentucky prior to the 2009 Nationwide Series race
Every season I sit here and think Kyle Busch could do it. This could be his season. And then something strange happens and Busch just falls off the map. Last year, in the Chase, Busch’s average finish was 17.9. He ended the season in 8th place, 440 marks back of Jimmie Johnson.
Busch and long-time girlfriend Sam Sarcinella got married on New Year’s Eve in Chicago. During the preseason media tour last week, Busch talked about the antics his older brother Kurt pulled on him during the ceremony.
Busch’s advice to those about to get hitched? Look at the bottom of your shoes.
“It was ‘HELP ME’ or something like that,” he told the reporters gathered at Joe Gibbs Racing’s headquarters. “As soon as we got to the church and we got up to the front and had to kneel for the first time – because it was a traditional Catholic wedding – I was like, ‘Oh, man! I forgot!’ Because I had a deal with my Toyota friends that I was going to put Toyota on the bottom of my shoes, and I had forgotten to do it.
“Well, Kurt's sitting in the audience just busting up laughing. And a couple of my guy friends were just looking at him like, ‘What are you doing?’
“I hadn't even looked. Who looks at the bottom of their shoes on their wedding day? I'll give this advice to anybody else who ever gets married: Look at the bottom of your shoes before you put 'em on, because somebody's going to screw with you!”
So while I keep that note in mind for the future (I’m far, far from getting married) I have to wonder if Busch will prove me right. Sooner or later he has to right?
Since I’m in the business of saying Busch will do it, you can mark my words. Kyle Busch will contend for the win at Daytona and possibly Indy. And it wouldn’t surprise me to see the No. 18 up front on a Saturday night in Sparta, Kent., either. If he can beat his teammate Joey Logano—which he has had trouble doing in the past—Busch might win one of the races I say he will.
At least I’ll be somewhat right in my prediction. If not, ‘HELP ME!’
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By the way an extremely happy birthday to my cousin Erin and my grandmother, Sis, today. I’m sure they’d appreciate that! More signing day info later.
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