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By: Thomas Luttermoser Images Via Kurt Busch Twitter & screenshot Via FS1 Broadcast Winners Kurt Busch - Kurt Busch finally breaks his 27 race winless streak and scored 23XI their second win in the Cup Series. This marks the first time the Jordan brand has graced a NASCAR Cup Car and the elder Busch brother brought MJ's brand to Rouff Mortgage Victory Lane after leading 116 laps. Kurt has been a shining light to 23XI with this marking his 5th Top-10 & 3rd Top-5 of the season. He was hired to win races and mentor Bubba Wallace and he seems to be toing just fine. He also now marks the first driver to win in a Dodge, Chevrolet, Ford and now a Toyota. Toyota - Toyota had by far their Best outing of the season yesterday at the AdventHealth 400 at Kansas. JGR/23XI put all 6 cars into the Top-10 including 23XI's race winning Jordan Branded 45 Camry driven by seasoned veteran Kurt Busch. He was followed in P3 by little brother Kyle Busch, P4 was held by his team owner Denny Hamlin, P5 Christopher Bell, P6 Martin Truex Jr & rounding up the Top 10 with Bubba Wallace. Wallace could have very easily scored a finish much higher if not for a massive mishap on pit road on behalf of his pit crew. 23XI Racing - With Kurt Busch scoring the team their second win and their first of the season being followed up in 10th by Bubba Wallace. 23XI Racing showed up ready for war at Kansas. Kurt led a race high 116 laps and late in the race made some impressive passes from 3rd passed the Kyle & Kyle show to get that win. Bubba ran his way deep into the Top-10 several times throughout the race and made it as far up as 5th getting passed a hard charging Chase Elliott later in the race. His 10th place finish was in no way shape or form a true show of the way the driver of the McDonalds Camry showed tremendous speed and agility through the entire race. His Pit crew on the other hand...... Ricky Stenhouse Jr - Ricky ran very well for majority of Sundays Kansas race with an average running position of 13.369 including leading 3 laps. This 8th place finish showed a bit more consistency for the JTG Daugherty racing team than usual for the season. This is the teams 4th Top-10 of the season and 3rd in a row. Does this show what could continue for the season or is it just some luck from the racing Gods? We all know Ricky is aggressive but with 9 finishes of 21st or worse... it has yet to be seen this season. Losers
GoodYear Tires - One of the big stories of the weekend was unfortunately once again tire failures. They plagued the Leaders and drivers near the rear of the field with big names such as (while leading) William Byron, Martin Truex Jr, Tyler Reddick, Chase Elliott & Daniel Suarez who ended up in the outside wall. Now this may have been a camber issue or a tire issue but that information has yet to become public. Chase Elliott - Although Chase still commands a 52 point lead in the standings, this weekends 29th place finish was by far his worst of the season. On lap 195 just after being passed for 5th by Bubba Wallace, Elliott's Left Rear tire came completely off the rim and caused him to spin wildly into the infield grass, on top of this... (I have to try not to laugh) The wrecker got stuck in the mud as well while trying to push him free after heavy rains the night and morning before. Luckily for him there was no contact with other cars or the wall producing no damage to the 9 car. Elliott ended up 3 laps down only able to gain 2 spots from 31st when un-stuck. Bubba Wallace's Pit Crew - Although scoring a 10th place finish and a spectacular amount of speed all race long. Bubba managed to race his way as high as 5th place. The downfall being, he could have very easily had a chance for a Top-5 or potentially an opportunity to race for the win with his teammate. Nearly Every pit cycle Wallace's pit crew lost him spots on pit road. He overcame each and every time impressively but it does bring up the "what could have been" thoughts. Erik Jones - Erik Jones has strung together a few impressive runs over the early part of this season, enough to get himself into playoff contention after a few weekends. But this weekend Erik had a bit of an issue... and not of anyone's doing, but just pure dumb bad luck. The 43 PettyGMS team ran Top-10/Top-15 majority of the first 80+ laps of the race until a freak issue occurred with his Right Rear lug basically freezing in place on the hub. The 43 Team worked admirably to get the lug off over a few pit stops and ran an entire green flag run on only 3 fresh tires. But the team ended up having to Sawzall the rim off the car to get access to remove the lug. unfortunately bringing the team 7 laps down to a 32nd place finish.
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Tom Luttermoser"Being a NASCAR fan since the mid-90s, I've seen my sport go through immense changes, from Earnhardt to Gordon, Gordon to Johnson, Johnson to the "Big 3". Petty's 200 to Busch's 229*. I've seen 2 generations of racers and 4 generations of racecars. I've seen the peak of the sport, I've seen the loss of a legend. I can, in fact say.. This is the greatest time our sport has seen since its golden era and it will do nothing but grow from here. We talk about the Golden Era, The Modern Era. I think, We're entering the NEXT GEN Era." Categories
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