Kyle Busch NASCAR Nationwide Series Champion Interview -- Auto Club Speedway Saturday night in Fontana
Sorry about the late start with the audio interviews of the NASCAR Nationwide Series winners. The goal is to share these interviews with you and your readers early on Mondays following the NASCAR Nationwide Series races. 1. This week, I have attached the MP3 of the Post Race Interview with winner Kyle Busch for you to share along with a short transcript and a link to a video Race Review of the Fontana contest. http://www.nationwide.com/series/home.jsp?WT.svl=B6a 2. Next week, the audio will be posted on the Nationwide NASCAR website. Look for my email with the transcript and link. 3. Additionally this year, I will attend five races and plan to offer you scenes and information from the tracks that you might not otherwise get. If you have a special request – pictures, interviews – that I might snag when I am trackside, I will be glad to try. I will let you know a week before the race that I am attending. 4. During the off-season, Nationwide created a new NASCAR Nationwide Series web page. Please take a look at www.nationwide.com/series The page currently contains a video and audio race review from Fontana ( http://www.nationwide.com/series/home.jsp?WT.svl=B6a). The site review will be updated following each race. Nationwide is looking forward to its second year of NASCAR Series sponsorship and I look forward to sharing our news about NASCAR and the events that we sponsor. In the meantime, as I get NASCAR news that would be of interest to you and your readers, I will send it on. If you have comments or suggestions about my work this year and what would be valuable, send me an e-mail. Nancy Smeltzer Nationwide Insurance Communications Consultant (614) 249-4491 FAX: (614) 677-6802 Follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/nancy501 Please feel free to post the following transript and audio file on your blog and link to the NASCAR Nationwide Series page containing video Review of the Fontana Race. http://www.nationwide.com/series/home.jsp?WT.svl=B6a Kyle Busch NASCAR Nationwide Series Champion Interview -- Auto Club Speedway Saturday night in Fontana The following is a Q&A with Kyle Busch following his victory Saturday at the Auto Club Speedway Saturday night in Fontana provided by Nationwide Insurance, title sponsor of the NASCAR Nationwide Series. With his victory in the Stater Bros. 300 Nationwide Series race at Auto Club Speedway Saturday night in Fontana, CA, Kyle Busch became the first driver in NASCAR history to win two series races in the same day. Earlier Saturday, Busch took the checkered flag in the Camping World Truck Series Race. Kyle Busch: Both races weren’t easy, they were both tough. I would say that the Nationwide Series race was a little harder, there at the end especially cause Carl and Kevin and all the guys there they wanted to battle real hard at the end for the win and so, it always sucks really really bad when you lead the most laps and you have a dominant car and then you finish second so, I was not about to let that happen today. I tried my darndest to make sure that wasn’t gonna be the case, so we made that come true and we were in Victory Lane so. Both races were tough, certainly not easy, never is in this game. Lined up between Carl Edwards and Kevin Harvick on the final restart with 16 laps to go, Busch had a close call before finally cruising into Victory Lane. Busch: I let it drift up the hill just a little bit and I got Carl loose. I never got into him just got him air loose, and fortunately I squeaked through there and Harvick and I battled down the backstretch and I got to turn three and I knew that if I didn’t put it on the top and put it on kill and get the move done there then it was gonna be hard to do, cause for some reason these guys get better at the end of races and our stuff always stays the same and so we knew that it was gonna be a battle there. Fortunately, you know, Harvick didn’t outdo us there at the end and we were able to win. Harvick finished just one second behind Busch. Kevin Harvick: I thought if I could get by Kyle and get clean air there on that restart, we might have something for him if we get in front of him but just a little bit too free and wasn’t quite able to quite clear him going into three. To see a the video race review of Fontana, go to http://www.nationwide.com/series/home.jsp?WT.svl=B6a