“Because you never know when the last one is.”That was double NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch after winning a Truck race at Dover last week, and it was a prophetic statement that marked his last ever NASCAR win before his tragic passing on Thursday, May 21, aged 41.Busch’s entrance onto the NASCAR scene coincided with my most attentive NASCAR-watching spell. In that mid-late-2000s period, Jeff Gordon’s clean cut, corporate America image had created a new breed of NASCAR driver that didn’t need to be a villain or to piss everyone off to sell merch and get bums on seats.Sure, there were fights, rivalries, maybe even a bit of pantomime. But anything of that sort often felt quite unnatural. Corporate America almost always ensured there was an apology, a …
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Author: Jack Benyon
