Kyle Busch’s Historic Indy Win

Yesterday all eyes were on Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Against all odds Kyle Busch reached the finish line as the dominant star of the Nascar Sprint Cup Series show.

Busch won the Xfinity Series race Saturday making him the first driver ever to capture both poles and both race victories in NASCAR's top two national touring series on the same weekend.

"I certainly hoped it would be like that," Busch said of his dominant car. " It was just so fast and able to get out front and stay out front. Not even some of my teammates could challenge. This was hooked up and on rails."

With this weekend victory fans have begun to acknowledge him as part of a small group of elite drivers in NASCAR's history.
With a start of the day at 107 degrees, it felt like the hottest race of the year. Stewart recovered from a pit road speeding penalty to finish 11th in his retirement year, and Gordon ran 13th in what was an unanticipated substitute role for ailing Dale Earnhardt Jr.

In the two-lap overtime shootout that decided the issue, Busch crossed the finish line an astounding 2.126 seconds ahead of Matt Kenseth, who ran second.

On a restart with two laps left - after about a 20-minute delay for a red flag -Trevor Bayne moved down the track on the backstretch and tried to block a fast-closing Clint Bowyer as drivers raced for position. Bayne couldn't quite make it and lost control, with both cars spinning off the track into the grass. Bayne's car struck the interior wall.

On a restart with seven laps to go, Carl Edwards appeared to get into Newman heading into Turn 1, which set off a chain reaction wreck that collected Keselowski, Danica Patrick, Ryan Blaney and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and brought out a red flag. Drivers were stopped on the frontstretch. "It felt like I just got tight down there. We were fighting really hard for the bottom," Edwards said. "I don't know if he (Newman) came down, or I came up, but it felt like I got in there."
But the story of the day was the long good-bye from Stewart and Gordon, after the restarts the conclusion of the race finally came, there was a special moment when Stewart pulled his car up next to Gordon's and suggested that the two of them take a post-race lap together to acknowledge the Indianapolis fans who were in attendance.

"I can't think of anybody else I would rather have shared that moment with," Stewart said.

"Tony and I have gone through a lot over the years, but we've become friends," Gordon added. "... I'm just so proud that I was able to be here and race with him in his final race here. But hey, you never know. I thought last year was going to be my final race here."

Two legends say goodbye in the same race that Busch gives an emphatic hello to greatness and marks the beginning of his seal in history.