This list was compiled based on the following. Any Cup driver who has run 4 or more of the 6 cup races is not qualified.
However, attempting to qualify for a Cup race and not qualifying does not make you a Cup driver. If you fail to qualify for less than half of the cup races, you are simply a Cup wanabee. Therefore you will find a driver on this list who has attempted to make the field for all of the Cup races. However, he is a Cup wanabee and needs to run Busch the rest of the year to see if he is capable of learning more on the Busch track instead of on the Cup sidelines. Can you say Paul Menard? Or should we say Daddy's Money Menard.
You will find also Ward Burton on this list for a similar reason. He has tried to make five of six Cup races but Morgan McClure Racing just needs to hang up the Cup dream. Face it guys, if you can't get along with other people well enough to merge with another potential Cup team, your days of Cup dreams are over.
This list also includes drivers that have not attempted all Busch Races. You don't have to try to race all Busch races to be a Busch regular or a "Busch guy." All of these drivers have run at least four of the seven Busch races.
It's an interesting group. And with more support from NASCAR it could be a very interesting group.
C'mon NASCAR, word is some NASCAR fans were bored this weekend because there was not a Cup race. We will never fix that really. There will always be singularly focused fans who are bigger celebrity worshipers than race fans and will never see past the NASCAR trees thus missing out on other great forests. But maybe somewhere out there under some of those eight caps there may be some fans that we might attract to other racing series if we package them right. What do you say we put our heads together and see what we can come up with?
Carl Edwards raced to his second consecutive NASCAR Busch Series victory, easily winning the Pepsi 300 in chilly conditions Saturday at Nashville Superspeedway to extend his lead in the season standings. The Nextel Cup driver led the final 25 laps and crossed the finish line 4.7 seconds ahead of David Reutimann. Dave Blaney, who was involved in an early fracas, rallied to finish third. Jason Leffler was fourth, followed by Regan Smith.
More interesting to this writer was the fact that we finally got to look at a true Busch Series Race. Yes there were a few Cup drivers and Edwards won. But Edwards is running the full season so I am down with that.
And Cup regulars won second and third place today. But Reutimann and Blaney are by no means NASCAR giants. Don't get me wrong, that's not smack. I like both guys.
Then there was Leffler and Smith, true Busch guys in fourth and fifth. Yes Smith is driving Cup for Ginn Racing when Mark Martin is practicing retirement. But that is by no means full time Cup. And I have no problem with that. Word is Leffler will attempt a few Cup races with members of the old ppc racing team too. Good for them. They know they aren't likely to win, they are doing it for the fun of it.
And look at the standings. We have pure Busch racers in spots 6 through 10.
Sixth is Marcos Ambrose Jr. He is a little wary of his Busch skills but was glad to have his family join up with him this week for most of the remainder of the season.
Bobby Hamilton Jr. promised to move to the top of the "Busch" guys and he did that today. Only Ambrose is ahead of him by Hamilton's definition of "Busch." Hamilton is seventh in the points.
Shane Huffman, he of USAR Hooters Pro Cup fame and a true up and comer, just wait and see, is up to eighth
Mike Wallace holds onto ninth after a rougher day today in the Geico gecko car. Yes Mike runs some Cup races but he doesn't kid himself about being a Cup racer these days. However, I do think that cousin Warren of his is scaring him.
And Stephen Leicht had a good run today and moves up to 10th.
Cheers! For Busch drivers. Head for the Mountains!
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