These days, with the hours and hours of prerace and postrace NASCAR television and radio programs available to us all, we see and hear of a lot of stories about the drivers. Recently I heard none other than Buddy Baker create a new driver nickname and he promptly pasted it to the back of one of the elite drivers in all of NASCAR Sprint Cup racing.  To me, it stuck immediately because it fit so perfectly.

Ladies and Gentleman, I present to you: "The Show" - Kyle Busch 

What a talent this kid is and in case you haven't paid attention, you are indeed watching racing history unfold before your eyes.

Love him, hate him, like him or you're just warming up to him ... This kid has truly been gifted by the Racing Gods. His kind comes along on a limited basis and it's time we properly recognize Busch for what he's done and what's he's going to keep on doing. Trust me folks, this young man has only begun to scratch the surface of the mark he will make in our sport.

Those of us who have, up close and personal, seen his ability come to life and the moves he performs each week - week in and week out... Stand there at race track after race track, with our mouth's wide open - in awe.

Yes, like a lot of others, when he's put in a good car he has the God-given ability to win and win often. What separates this guy from most of the others is his knack to equally win when his car or his truck, is off. He can flat - out drive an ill handling racecar, especially a loose one and he commands his car like no one I have ever seen. He's the boss of his car. His car is never the boss of him.

If his car is right, his competition better be ready for a fight, for the folks at home they get to see ... "The Show"

Jeff Gordon himself, in this week's Las Vegas prerace program on FOX vehemently pronounced this fellow competitor as one of the most amazing talents he's ever seen.

So, Buddy Baker wasn't far off at all, in fact he was spot on. Yes, in NASCAR's Sprint Cup division there is a plethora of new talent, old talent and even talent that rim rides between hot and cold. Each of these talents deserves the accolades that they earn. In my mind however and in the minds of many other well respected folks in this business, none are currently more entertaining, more exciting, more visually confident, and more driven than "The Show" and right now, one Kyle Busch and his innate ability to awe us week in and week out.... is "The Show"

Brief notes:

--I was really impressed by the run Justin Allgaier had Saturday in Vegas. There were times in this race when some of the more experienced Sprint Cup drivers tried to muscle him and the kid stood up to the test and shined. I look for him to show more of this and on a repetitive basis. For a rookie to demonstrate this kind of maturity so early in this Series coming from the ARCA RE/MAX Series, really speaks volumes for his potential.

-- As I have said a few times here, if you look at the performance history over the past three years, the top three to five finishers of both the early California and Las Vegas events have found themselves battling for the Sprint Cup Championship at year's end. With the majority of the seasons 36 point races run on mile-and-a-half type racetracks, these two venues bode well as a litmus test for the balance of the year's results and in that light, I think we have seen that;

1. The Penske cars have indeed improved over the winter.

2. If history holds true, {no surprise here, this we all know} Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth, Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle will all be trying to out muscle Kyle Busch and a very selected few others for not only one of the 12 Chase positions, but ultimately, these six will be the ones fighting for the Sprint Cup Championship.