
So much for that business about Kyle Busch cooling down.
Instead, Busch showed that he was just ready to take on his newest title as the Sprint Cup's next great road course ace after winning Sunday's Centurion Boats at the Glen.
The win was the eighth of the year for Busch, and more importantly, it ended the two race streak of unimpressive finishes of 15th at Indianapolis and 36th at Pocono for the No. 18 car. The win also secures Busch that no other driver can score enough Chase for the Championship bonus points from now until the Chase starts after Richmond.
Busch's win at Watkins Glen also completed a sweep of the Sprint Cup road course events in 2008 for the driver.
Teammate Tony Stewart finished second, but the most impressive run of the day goes to Australian Marcos Ambrose. Ambrose started the day dead last on the field in 43rd thanks to rain on Friday during qualifying, but he motored through the field in his Wood Brothers No. 21 to take third place.
Normal road course contender Jeff Gordon was never a factor and just couldn't ever get the car running better, finishing an extremely disappointing 29th unofficially.
A huge crash with the field coming to the start/finish line with eight laps to go brought out the red flag as nine cars piled up coming on to the frontstetch brought out the red flag for nearly 40 minutes. David Gilliland took a number of brutal hits and Bobby Labonte was transferred to a local hospital after getting out of his car.
Prior to that incident, though, the race had run quite clean and green with only two previous cautions due to debris coming on the track.




