Ronald Martinez, Getty ImagesIt seemed as if it may once again be Kyle Busch's race in the Nationwide Series at Texas Motor Speedway on Friday. He was slowly improving his position up to 2nd behind Carl Edwards, and the car began getting better and better. It was shaping up to be a great race and a great, exciting finish between the two Sprint Cup superstars.
This would soon come to an end for Kyle Busch.
Just past halfway, while riding about a car length behind the leader, Edwards, Tim Schendel, who was on the bottom of the track, blew a right front tire and went straight into the wall. He missed Edwards, collected Kyle Busch, and Tim Schendel and Busch went into the outside wall. Kyle's race was over.
“It didn’t happen that fast, but there was no time to react,” Busch said. “You can’t just stomp on the brakes and turn left, you’re already maxed out with your tires.
It’s real unfortunate – these guys did a great job working all weekend to get the car capable of running with Carl there. “They unloaded a lot better than we did and we just worked really hard getting to that point where we could run with those guys.
“There was an opportunity for us to win,” Busch said. “I’m not going to say we were the winning car. Carl is definitely the winning car.
“We were making ground on him to where we could get there and at least run with him. We probably could have put on a really good show.”
He did say that there was most likey little the lap car could have done differently.
“I don’t know how long his tire was going down, but if it was going down for the whole front straightaway, he should have gotten to the slowest speed and ran the apron."
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