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I don't have time to do a full-blown points post, but suffice to say Matt Kenseth is way out in front of my Sprint Cup Series points. There were a couple of things I found interesting after plugging in the numbers from this weekend's races, though.
KYLE BUSCH NOTES
- With his win Saturday in the Truck Series, Kyle became the second driver to win ten Cup races, Busch/Nationwide races, and Truck races. Greg Biffle has 14 Cup wins, 18 Busch/NW wins, and 16 Cup wins, while Kyle now has 12 Cup wins, 22 Busch/NW wins, and 10 Truck wins.
- If you count TOTAL all-time wins, there are eight drivers who are on a level above everyone else.
Richard Petty 200
David Pearson 106
Darrell Waltrip 97
Dale Earnhardt 97
Mark Martin 90
Bobby Allison 87
Jeff Gordon 86
Cale Yarborough 83
The next guy on the list is Rusty Wallace, with 55 total wins. Kyle Busch - all of 23 years old - ALREADY has *44* wins. He might pass Rusty by June. (Carl Edwards is at 42, btw.)
(No, I'm NOT saying Rusty's 55 wins - ALL in a Cup car - would be less or even equal of an accomplishment than if Kyle gets to, say, 60 wins in all three series. You would be an idiot to make the comparison. However, I would personally put Kyle's 44 TOTAL wins as his "Chasing the King's 200" total - which you already know if you've read my blog for any amount of time.)
MATT KENSETH NOTE
- Remember last year when I went through and reclassified all of the early Cup wins that aren't REALLY Cup wins and adjusted the King's win total? After I did that I had 19 drivers with 20 or more Cup wins. Matt Kenseth's back-to-back wins have him as the only active driver at 19 Cup wins.
RANDOM DRIVER COMPARISON
- These two guys are peers, having raced each other pretty much every week for eleven years.
Driver A: 18 Cup wins, 22 Busch/NW wins, one Daytona 500 win, two Busch championships
Driver B: 19 Cup wins, 24 Busch NW wins, one Daytona 500 win, one Winston Cup championship
I am fairly incredulous at both the lack of respect Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Driver A, obviously) and Matt Kenseth (Driver B) get AND the lack of respect Junior still gets even relative to Kenseth.
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