Kyle Busch snapped the brief slump that’s plagued him the past two weeks, racing to his first Sprint Cup Series win on a road course Sunday.

NASCAR veteran Mark Martin will have a new racing home in 2009, ESPN.com has learned. Martin was unavailable for comment Sunday. Officials for Martin’s current team, Dale Earnhardt Inc., would neither confirm nor deny the speculation, but did confirm that young Aric Almirola would run a full-time schedule in 2009.

The thermometer hovered at 102 degrees just prior to Friday’s qualifying at Infineon Raceway, which means the temperature inside the Sprint Cup cars was much hotter. Not to worry. NASCAR is monitoring the situation.