Victory Interview with Kyle Busch from NASCAR Nationwide Series at LMS
@Nationwidenns will be at Memphis Motorsports Park in Memphis Friday and Saturday. Attached is the audio file of the interview with race champ Kyle Busch along with a transcript and a link to all the pictures we shot this weekend http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationwide/sets/72157622618493598/ Nancy Smeltzer Nationwide Insurance Communication Consultant (614) 249-4491 FAX: (614) 677-6802 Follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/nancy501 Follow Nationwide on Twitter: www.twitter.com/nationwidenns Kyle Busch NASCAR Nationwide Series Champion Interview – Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte. Man it was a freight train for sure, there wasn’t much that was going to stop this Z-Line Camry tonight, it was really good. – Kyle Busch When the Nationwide Series hit the high banks of Lowes Motor Speedway, it made perfect sense that Kyle Busch would win the Dollar General 300. It was after all his third checkered flag in his last four Charlotte starts. Kyle Busch: I felt good about our car, I felt like we were in another zip code tonight and it was going to take some big changes on some guy’s part to get up there and battle with us. We’ve seen the same thing the past few weeks, where we’ve had the best car by a mile, in the beginning and middle and end stages of the race and all of a sudden here comes Joey Logano with Dave Rogers adjusting on his car like a wholesale man and getting the thing where it will keep up at the end of the race and ultimately beat us. That didn’t happen this time as Busch led on three occasions for 137 of the 200 laps, to capture his fifth Nationwide Series win on the 1.5-mile track and his seventh of the season. It was another dazzling performance by the 24-year-old who spent the better part of two weeks feeling, pretty dizzy. Busch: The sickness I had started on Sunday after Kansas and it felt like a cold was coming on and then I got a really bad fever and got cold chills and everything and had a hard time sleeping all week because of the cold chills. I don’t know if it was Swine Flu, I don’t know H1N1, I don’t know what it was, it was the flu and then it started to kind of subside, the fever did and stuff about Thursday, Friday and then Friday night, Saturday and Sunday night I had chills again. I went to the doctor on Monday, which was pneumonia. So that had to be the start of pneumonia, so I went from the flu to pneumonia and now I’m just getting over the final cases of pneumonia with some antibiotics and stuff like that. Mike Bliss who’s driven for five different teams since he was fired by James Finch after the Iowa race was the runner-up for the second time while wheeling the number 11 Toyota for owner Bryan Mullet. Bliss had a great car but admitted there was nothing he could do to beat Busch. Mike Bliss: He was really fast; we knew that in practice how good he was. At the end, that run there we were actually a little faster than him but I think he started conserving fuel and we started conserving fuel the last five laps. We were close but we knew he was the car to be there, always. After doing a lot of starting and parking this year, Dave Blaney got to run the whole race in Joe Nemechek’s car and he teared up after finishing third. Dave Blaney: That was fun; I haven’t been able to do much racing this year. That was big fun from start to finish. Billy Wilburn and the Braun guys and Nemechek’s group. They had a really good car, at practice I thought I was really good but I haven’t run these things enough to know the feel from the start of the run to the end and everything and I thought it was good but it took right off and I about ruined it from right off the bat and hit the wall and had to fix it but kept coming. Finishing fourth it was Brian Vickers with Carl Edwards winding up fifth. Carl Edwards: We just have to be better; the guys have been working hard. That car will do it, we are fast and qualifying, set on the pole but we just have to figure out why we can’t keep up with these mile and a half’s and a lot of it I think is stuff I think that we can work on and that’s just what we’ll have to do. Six to 10 in the final run-down were Brad Keselowski, Ryan Newman, Kasey Kahne, Jeff Burton and Tony Raines. Then 11 to 16 were Tony Stewart, Justin Allgaier, Michael Annett, Joey Logano and Brendan Gaughan. Kyle Busch increased his lead over Carl Edwards by 40 points and with only four races left he’s on top of the Nationwide Series title fight by 195 points. Busch: You know I think now that we’re this late in the game it’s just going to be about luck and you can make your own luck sometimes and other times it will come out and bite you out of no where. All that we can do is do that we’ve done all year and that’s to try and get back into victory lane and win these races and put the points to bed like that. A full set of the pictures taken at the Lowe’s Motor Speedway can be viewed at http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationwide/sets/72157622618493598/ The Nationwide Series will return this week to Memphis Motorsports Park in Memphis. Look for the audio interview following Kroger on Track for the Cure 250. And don’t forget, Nationwide’s Media Team will be Twittering from the Memphis Motorsports Park. You can follow the Team’s whereabouts on the track on Twitter ( http://twitter.com/Nationwidenns). If there is a picture of someone or something you would like to see trackside, send your request to http://twitter.com/Nationwidenns. The team will try its best to get the shot. Pictures will be posted at http://www.twitpic.com/photos/nationwide