Kyle Busch Deserves Better Than Dale Earnhardt Inc.
Think Speed and ESPN2 will interrupt normally schedule broadcasting to bring us the announcement of where Kyle Busch is going?
Kyle Busch_at_bristolOK, why do I have this feeling that he’s going to end up at Joe Gibbs Racing.
That No. 18 seat currently occupied by J.J. Yeley would seem to be a perfect fit for Kyle Busch.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not taking a sucker punch at Dale Earnhardt Jr. here, but while I think the Hendrick Motorsports stable took a big leap in its marketability with the addition of Earnhardt, I think the talent level dropped with the loss of Kyle Busch.
You may not like Kyle Busch for his tempestuous attitude and you may not like him just because his name is Kyle Busch, but you can’t deny that the kid can drive a car better than many of the 42 others that strap in most Sunday’s on the Nextel Cup grid.
For some reason to me Kyle Busch always seemed like a lost soul waiting to be found in the lineup at Hendrick. He was the bad boy in a stable of clean cut choir boys and for that he stood out in the worst possibly way.
The consensus speculation on Wednesday was that Kyle Busch was going to end up at Dale Earnhardt Inc., filling in the seat that Earnhardt will leave empty after 2007. My guess is that was just the easy, let’s throw it out because it’s the open ride idea for Wednesday.
I hope that Kyle Busch doesn’t end up at DEI. Let’s face it, despite Martin Truex Jr’s recent 2-race string of successful runs, DEI is up their neck in problems. The stepson of the team owner couldn’t take it any more and had to leave. That pretty much says it all. Kyle Busch belongs at a championship caliber organization and DEI far from fits that description these days.
But Kyle Busch at Gibbs, now that works.
In the Gibbs stable Kyle Busch wouldn’t be the loan maniac in a class of goody-goody boys. And think about that stable in 2008 and beyond. Tony Stewart, Denny Hamlin and Kurt Busch, with the possible addition of upstart Joey Logano to the lineup in 2009 or 2010. While it might not have the marketability of say Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and Earnhard, talent wise that sounds like a pretty potent combination.
Shawn Courchesne, 1:21 a.m.
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