Biffle vs. Busch
I finally got around to watching the video of the Biffle-Kurt Busch wreck in Sunday's Cup race at Texas.
I hate to say this, but Kurt Busch isn't totally at fault this time like he usually is. He's not even mostly at front. I'll explain why after the jump ...
Yeah, yeah, I know, Busch was the guy in the back. If you've ever rear-ended someone in real life, the judge is always going to side with the guy who got hit no matter how blind, stupid or reckless he is. (It's called defensive driving. Try it sometime.)
Those same traffic rules don't apply in racin', obviously. And Biffle made a huge error in judgment: He thought Kurt Busch was going to back off and give him some room.
Just because Busch should have backed off doesn't mean he was going to. If I'm Greg Biffle and I remembered what Busch did to teammate Matt Kenseth at Martinsville the week before, I would have put about 10 car lengths between me and the No. 2 before I went up the track.
Other takes:
Stockcarcity.com (a new find for me): I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing that will involve KB, that isn’t KB’s fault. (Guy's on a roll until he gets to the media conspiracy theories. Eva Bryan=Eva Braun? Sorry, I missed that one, and blog comments don't equal journalism.)
Shorter Steve Byrnes at FoxSports.com: I sat next to Biffle's girlfriend on a plane once and she didn't steal my pretzels, so she's classy.
Now NASCAR is involved. For the love of ...
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These two guys have a history all the way back to the Winston a few years ago when Busch dumped Biffle going into Turn 1. And Biffle is not lily white either, I remember many issues with Harvick 3 or 4 years ago.
What concerns me is that confrontation becomes such a crisis in the new NASCAR. I remember a confrontation in Turn 3 of a Daytona 500 while the race was still going on that made the sport what it is today. Yarbrough, B. Allison, and D. Allison in racings first triple threat match.
Posted on April 12, 2006 8:29 PM
Any chance we can get a Kurt Busch vs. Greg Biffle in a steel cage, with Nicole vs. Eva in a bra and panties match?
Posted on April 13, 2006 12:41 AM
I was thinking the same thing, John. It just seemed insane to me that Greg, as fast as he was, would take Kurt's nose off the way he did unless he was looking to start some garbage. Especially considering the amount of room he had to run comfortably in a spot that wasn't right in front of Kurt.
Unfortunately, Greg's the one that got put in the dumpster.
Posted on April 13, 2006 9:17 AM