Nascar – Kyle Busch escapes chaos at Watkins Glen

This time it was the right one! In 2011 and 2012, Kyle Busch came within a whisker of victory on the Watkins Glen road circuit, each time being overtaken at the very end of the event by Marcos Ambrose. If the latter started in pole position and led nearly 51 of the 90 laps of the event, it was the driver of the Joe Gibbs who won in the end thanks, in particular, to a good strategy and a bit of luck: by stopping a little earlier than Ambrose, Kyle Busch would definitely take the reins of the race even though an accident required a yellow flag to be shown. Not yet passing through the stands, the 2011 and 2012 winner of the event was going to lose a lot of time by stopping, only to start again far from the front. While slowly making his way back up, the Richard Petty Motorsports resident was however going to have to retire 7 laps from the finish, hit by another competitor, which would cause the last neutralization of the event.

Getting rid of his main rival, Kyle Busch did not have an easy end to the race, far from it. He first had to resist Brad Keselowski, the reigning Sprint Cup Series Champion, and Martin Truex Jr, both very pressing. They will finish 2nd and 3rd respectively. Furthermore, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver also had to save his brakes and fuel as much as possible, his team not being sure that he could go all the way in case of a "green-white-checked" finish. flag” takes place. Fortunately for the Las Vegas native, the race will not exceed its planned number of laps, and nothing will prevent him from winning the “Cheez-It 355 At the Glen”.