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BUSCH SERIES: No One Else Came Close.(News)
Byline: Al Pearce
NASCAR's last Busch Series season (it becomes the Nationwide Series next year) was decided early. Nextel Cup driver Carl Edwards and his No. 60 Ford team finished in the top five in nine of the first 13 races and in the top 10 in two others. That created a 433-point lead, and Edwards was never challenged the rest of the season.
The Roush Fenway Racing driver held an unimaginable 852-point lead by round 22 at Indianapolis in August. And despite backing up somewhat down the stretch, his championship was almost a foregone conclusion by Memorial Day weekend. He finished the 35-race season with no poles, four wins, 15 top-5s, 21 top-10s and 4805 points, 618 clear of Toyota driver David Reutimann.
In a pattern becoming irksome to some, Cup teams-with their greater technology, deeper pockets, better crews and more track time-continued to dominate the series. But the complainers also realize that NASCAR wouldn't come close to full 43-car fields without those well-heeled Cup teams on the grid each weekend.
Cup team owners Richard Childress and Jack Roush (two cars each) and Joe Gibbs, Michael Waltrip, Ray ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, BUSCH SERIES: No One Else Came Close.(News)