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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: All Eyes On Kyle Busch

Dan Flaherty Uncategorized Bristol Motor Speedway, Food City 500, Food City 500 odds, Kyle Busch NASCAR, NASCAR Sprint Cup odds, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series

The fourth race of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season goes Sunday, with the running of the Food City 500 (1 PM ET, Fox) and the presence of Kyle Busch overshadows this race. It’s not because Busch is off to a blazing start—he’s only 17th in the point standings. Nor is it because he’s a dominant figure in racing—he’s missed the Top 10 each of the last two years and never come close to a championship. But Busch owns Bristol Motor Speedway, and now he’s got the pole for Sunday.

Tight NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Heads To Charlotte

Dan Flaherty Uncategorized Charlotte Motor Speedway NASCAR Fox, Coca-Cola 600, Jimmie Johnson NASCAR, Kyle Busch NASCAR, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Sprint Cup schedule

The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series takes to Charlotte on Sunday night for the Coca-Cola 600 at a track with a reputation for belonging to one driver, but a recent history that suggests otherwise.

“Charlotte is known as the home of Jimmy Johnson,” TheSportsNotebook’s resident NASCAR consultant Bill Flaherty (who doubles as the writer’s brother) told me. The Charlotte Motor Speedway is sponsored by Loew’s, the same hardware company that also sponsors Johnson, but JJ also won five of six races there in 2003-05. But just as the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry peaked from 2003-05, so did Johnson’s dominance in Carolina. Over the last five years, Charlotte has continued to host two races per year and we’ve had 10 different winners. Johnson’s one of them, but that’s parity that the NFL would smile upon.