Post #500: 100 days until the Nationwide Series races at Kentucky

Mark Martin won the Nationwide Series race at Las Vegas a few weeks back, notching career win No. 49 in NASCAR’s second tier series. Kyle Busch will undoubtedly pass Martin, but the question is when?

In 100 days Busch and Martin will hit the track in Sparta, Kentucky to try to dethrone three-time defending Meijer 300 winner Joey Logano. Logano, who is 30-plus years younger than the 52-year-old Martin (Logano turns 21 in late May) has dominated the Nationwide (nee Busch) Series at Kentucky Speedway since he jumped into a Joe Gibbs car in June of 2008.

Three poles and three wins in three years is pretty dominant if you ask me, but no one has dominated the Nationwide Series like the man who was named the series’ best driver in 2006 by the NASCAR media. That’d be Mark Martin.

In 100 days NASCAR fans around Cincinnati and Louisville will have their shot to see Mark Martin run laps around the track for the first time in a NASCAR sanctioned event. I’m fired up.

And I’m also fired up about the newest way to experience NASCAR, NASCAR The Game: 2011, which was released on Tuesday. I’ve had a little time to play the game and like what I’ve seen so far.

More thoughts on that as I get further along in the game. So far I’ve turned some laps at Kentucky in the GoDaddy.com car. It was pretty awesome. And now there’s only 100 or so days until we get to see that happen for real. I couldn’t be more excited. (There’s something I never thought I’d say about Kentucky Speedway…)