Here's the Busch Series top-10 after Richmond. Kevin Harvick 356 Carl Edwards 240 Denny Hamlin 222 Matt Kenseth 175 Greg Biffle 175 J.J. Yeley 159 Clint Bowyer 155 Jeff Burton 121 Paul Menard 118 Kurt Busch 106 Kyle Busch 100 A couple of notes: - With seven races remaining, Kevin Harvick needs only 29 points to clinch the championship. If he scores 67 points in the next four races, he would break Jeff Green's Busch Series-record of 422 points in 32 races. - I can hear you now. "Jeff Green's Busch Series record?" Yeah, I did the Busch Series races back to '98 to see in Junior won those two titles my way. He did. - I can also hear this, "well, this isn't any better than NASCAR's system that has Harvick 619 points ahead." Harvick has FIFTEEN top three finishes compared to Hamlin and Edwards with eight. He's pretty much killed people all year. That's going to happen sometimes. On a separate tangent, I'd like to see the term "Busch-whacker" used properly. When I hear just ANY NASCAR driver in a Busch race called that, I get kind of ticked off. Harvick, Edwards, Sorenson, Yeley...those guys have run EVERY Busch race. They aren't "Busch-whackers", IMO, they are series regulars. Kurt Busch (seven starts including two wins and six top-six finishes) is a Busch-whacker. Kasey Kahne (twelve starts including two wins) is a Busch-whacker. Scott Riggs with six starts is a Busch-whacker. The guys at the top of the Busch standings aren't Busch-whackers. JJD's CRAFTSMAN TRUCK SERIES STANDINGS Todd Bodine 180 Johnny Benson 157 Mark Martin 144 Ted Musgrave 132 Jack Sprague 115 David Reutimann 113 Ron Hornaday 112 Rick Crawford 105 Mike Bliss 90 David Starr 86 There's a familiar name in there: Mark Martin. I guess he'd be a "Truck-whacker", but the fact is he has four wins and two seconds, and even though he has only eight starts his seven top-4 finishes are equaled by only Bodine, Benson, and Musgrave. I wonder if he would go for more Truck races if he was actually third in the standings.