Kyle Busch just keeps winning.
The 23-year-old NASCAR Sprint Cup star has won second-quarter voting for 2008 Driver of the Year, repeating his victory in the first-quarter balloting.
Busch won four races in NASCAR's top two series - three in Cup and one in Nationwide - during the quarter that ran from May 3 to June 29. He continues to lead the Cup point standings.
And he hasn't slowed down. Busch has two wins in the third quarter.
"It's awesome, just unbelievable what we've been able to accomplish so far this year,"
said Busch, who drives for Joe Gibbs Racing. "We've been so blessed and so fortunate to have everything click like it has."
"I love my guys. This whole Joe Gibbs Racing team has worked so hard to give me good cars week in and week out. I know they'll keep working even harder and, hopefully, we can continue to find the same kind of success in the second half of the season."
In the second-quarter voting, Busch totaled 103 points as he took seven of 14 first-place votes and was listed on every ballot, with only one vote below second place. He handily beat Indianapolis 500 winner Scott Dixon, whose two IndyCar Series victories earned him five first-place votes and 85 points.
World of Outlaws star Donny Schatz, who drives for Tony Stewart Racing, had one first-place vote and was third in the voting with 48 points. The late Scott Kalitta, the Funny Car driver who died in a crash on June 21, got the other first-place vote.
Fueler Transferred to Burn Center: A fueler for De Ferran Motorsports was transferred to a burn center Tuesday and his condition was upgraded from critical to serious.
Keith Jones was injured in a pit fire during the American Le Mans Series race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Saturday, the second event for the newly formed team headed by former Indianapolis 500 winner Gil de Ferran.
De Ferran, who came out of a two-year retirement, won the pole and started the race, but teammate Simon Pagenaud was at the wheel when the team's Acura ARX-01B pulled away from the pit with the hose still attached to the car, igniting the fuel.
Safety workers quickly put out the fire, but Jones, wearing a helmet and fire-retardant clothing, was briefly caught in the flames. He was taken by helicopter to The Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus with unspecified burns.
Jones, 49, was transferred Tuesday to the Fairbanks Burn Center at Wishard Hospital in Indianapolis.
