Kyle Busch named 1st Quarter Driver of the Year
Quote selected text Published May 6th, 2008 in NASCAR News
Kyle Busch crushed the competition on the track and in the ballots as he won 1st quarter Driver of the Year 2008. Busch won a total seven races in NASCAR’s top-three series, Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Craftsman Truck Series. Although he leads in the Cup standings with a second place this past weekend in Richmond, voting only considered results through the previous event at Talladega Speedway.
In the voting Busch took 14 first-place ballots, and none lower than a third place totaling 142 points. Cup rival Roush/Fenway driver Carl Edwards’ three wins earned him one first-place vote and a total of 72 points. Danica Patrick, who drives for Andretti Green Racing, whose record-setting first win in top level IndyCar Series for a woman, garnered two first place votes and totaled 51 points in third place. Ashley Force, daughter of the 1996 Driver of the Year beat her famous father, John Force last week in Atlanta in NHRA’s funny car division was fourth in the voting with 49 points.
A total of 17 drivers scored points in the first quarter voting, including fifth place Jason Meyers, in the World of Outlaws who won three of the first six races. In related news, ESPN’s award winning writer and broadcast journalist Terry Blount has been added to the panel.
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All Right, All Right.i hope he keeps this up and gets 2008 Driver of the Year, Jimmy Johnson has had it twice now 2006 and 2007. keep up the ggod work Kyle.
Hahaha let the riots begin! Jr nation will not be pleased! Looks like he crushed everyone in the voting. I hope he can keep it up too
well Barry always usually goes with the driver who wins the most races anyway so that was coming. as far as popular it probadly would have come down to Carl . yeah the JR NATION will bi_ch for sure now.
Anybody but Gordo is alright with me…Kyle has the best record on paper this quarter all-right but as far as popularity he is still in the “needs a bodyguard ” status… lol,,, back at ya
Jeff wrote:
I’m apart of JR Nation. And I don’t care who wins the 1st quarter
Driver of the Year. Yay for Kyle Busch. Just so you know. :]
Not everyone reacts immaturely to such things. Again, just so you know.
Whatever
Who gives a crap who is !st Quarter Driver of the year? It only matters who is Drvier of the Year and I will bet it won’t be the ole’ WRECKING BALL OF THE YEAR!
He needs to A__ Driver of the Quarter Driver of the year
He needs to win Idiot Quarter Driver of the year