BREAKING NEWS : NASCAR : Kyle Busch Suspended for Remainder of Texas Race Weekend
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[/media-credit]After an incident that saw Kyle Busch deliberately wreck championship contender and series veteran Ron Hornaday under caution Friday night Kyle Busch has been parked for the remainder of the race weekend at the Texas Motor Speedway. The Winstar World Casino 350K NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race was only 14 laps in when the incident occurred.
NASCAR officials met with Busch briefly after the incident and scheduled a meeting for early Saturday morning. After the wreck on Friday which sent Hornaday out of the race Hornaday said furiously, “He pulled my shoulder out. Luckily I had a chiropractor put it back in and I’ll be good. If NASCAR doesn’t do it, I’m going to buy Tommy Baldwin’s ride and that guy will never finish another race. That’s a promise. … This was a yellow flag, turned when you’re not prepared and your heart is not pumping and all that stuff and then you get turned directly in the fence. So let’s have at it? I can go beat his ass? He lives too close to me. So we’ll see what NASCAR does. If they don’t handle it right, I’ll be at his house Monday morning.”
After the meeting Busch left the NASCAR hauler and went directly to the driver’s motor coach lot with comment.
Michael McDowell replaced Busch in his Sprint Cup car for practice this morning and reports in garage indicated that Denny Hamlin would replace him in the Nationwide Series race today.
Helton said, “Boys Have It had clear line that could be crossed. We saw it last night.”
“done under section 9.12 of the rulebook, that gives NASCAR the authority to react during a race weekend. And following the event and after a good deal of conversation and discussion, NASCAR has decided to maintain that parked position on the driver of the 18 truck for the balance of the weekend.” NASCAR president Mike Helton said.
In a nutshell…… Busch will not race anymore this weekend at Texas.
It not a first for NASCAR, but maybe an eye opener for Busch. Kevin Harvick (2002) and Robby Gordon (2008) have been suspended for Sprint Cup races for actions on the track.
Harvick wins the NCWTS WinStar World Casino 350K at Texas
Kevin Harvick led a race-high of 61 laps and won Friday night’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) WinStar World Casino 350K race at Texas Motor Speedway. Harvick also captured the owner’s title for his No. 2 truck.
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[/media-credit]“We’ve worked hard over the past several years to win as many races as we can. We’ve been fortunate to win some championships and have come up short on the manufacturers’ end of it. To be able to win the Owner’s Championship, win the race and win the Manufacturers’ Championship in the same night is pretty cool because Chevrolet has been a huge part of KHI (Kevin Harvick, Inc.) since the beginning. To go out and score a bunch of points this year and win the Owner’s Championship and the Manufacturers’ championship says a lot about everybody who’s involved and Chevrolet has been a huge part of providing the assets to make that happen.” Harvick said.
But the fireworks were between Kyle Busch and Ron Hornaday Jr.
Both drivers made contact while trying to pass a slower truck. They went 3-wide with Hornaday in the middle. They both made contact with the wall. Busch retaliated by pushing the No. 33 truck into the wall on just the 14th lap of the race.
NASCAR parked Busch for the race with more penalties possible. NASCAR did meet with both drivers after the race.
“This is just stupid! He knew I was there. He just drove me into the fence.” Hornaday said. “Let’s have at it, so I can go in there and beat him. He lives too close to me. We’ll see what NASCAR does. If they don’t handle it right, I’ll be at his house Monday morning.”
“I lost my cool, no doubt about it. I’ve been wrecked four weeks in a row, and I’ve had enough of it, and I retaliated,” Busch said.
Hornaday dropped to fourth in the series points standings, 48 behind Austin Dillon with only one race remaining.
“Well, if you consider Ron (Hornaday Jr.) was in the championship, maybe Ron could have played it a little smarter on lap 15 and checked up a little and given room to everybody around. Obviously, if you make it a three-wide situation — I can’t go up in the dirt, you know?” Busch said. “So if I just lay over and give up everything for Ron Hornaday, that’s not Kyle Busch’s fashion. I’m out here to win a race just as much as anybody else is and when he races up on my inside, gets loose and takes me up to the fence, I ended up losing my cool.”
Dillon has to finish 16th or better at Homestand-Miami Speedway on Nov. 18 to win the series title.
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| Pos. | St. | No. | Driver | Make | Points |
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| 1 | 10 | 2 | Kevin Harvick | Chevrolet | 0 |
| 2 | 2 | 3 | Austin Dillon | Chevrolet | 43 |
| 3 | 8 | 121 | Ty Dillon | Chevrolet | 41 |
| 4 | 7 | 8 | Nelson Piquet Jr. * | Chevrolet | 40 |
| 5 | 11 | 88 | Matt Crafton | Chevrolet | 39 |
| 6 | 14 | 22 | Joey Coulter * | Chevrolet | 38 |
| 7 | 12 | 13 | Johnny Sauter | Chevrolet | 38 |
| 8 | 5 | 4 | Ricky Carmichael | Chevrolet | 36 |
| 9 | 17 | 7 | Miguel Paludo * | Toyota | 35 |
| 10 | 6 | 6 | Justin Lofton | Chevrolet | 35 |
| 11 | 15 | 17 | Timothy Peters | Toyota | 33 |
| 12 | 23 | 23 | Jason White | Chevrolet | 32 |
| 13 | 19 | 5 | Todd Bodine | Toyota | 31 |
| 14 | 24 | 9 | Max Papis | Toyota | 30 |
| 15 | 26 | 39 | Ryan Sieg | Chevrolet | 29 |
| 16 | 33 | 66 | Ross Chastain | Chevrolet | 28 |
| 17 | 18 | 60 | Cole Whitt * | Chevrolet | 27 |
| 18 | 20 | 20 | Johanna Long * | Toyota | 26 |
| 19 | 1 | 31 | James Buescher | Chevrolet | 26 |
| 20 | 36 | 10 | Jennifer Jo Cobb | Dodge | 0 |
| 21 | 25 | 93 | B.J. McLeod | Chevrolet | 23 |
| 22 | 27 | 168 | Clay Greenfield | Dodge | 22 |
| 23 | 16 | 81 | David Starr | Toyota | 21 |
| 24 | 28 | 73 | Rick Crawford | Chevrolet | 20 |
| 25 | 29 | 155 | Jake Crum | Chevrolet | 0 |
| 26 | 34 | 63 | Jack Smith | Ford | 18 |
| 27 | 3 | 32 | Blake Feese | Chevrolet | 17 |
| 28 | 13 | 29 | Parker Kligerman * | Dodge | 16 |
| 29 | 22 | 7 | Johnny Chapman | Toyota | 0 |
| 30 | 32 | 174 | Mike Harmon | Chevrolet | 0 |
| 31 | 21 | 62 | Brendan Gaughan | Toyota | 13 |
| 32 | 31 | 0 | T.J. Bell | Ford | 0 |
| 33 | 4 | 18 | Kyle Busch | Toyota | 0 |
| 34 | 9 | 33 | Ron Hornaday | Chevrolet | 10 |
| 35 | 35 | 87 | Chris Jones | Chevrolet | 0 |
| 36 | 30 | 138 | Mike Garvey | Chevrolet | 0 |







