
Kyle Busch wasn't real happy with his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota over the course of the two practice sessions in preparations for this weekend's race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, but thanks to the weather he started on the pole for Sunday's Sylvania 300.
The good luck didn't last long.
Busch first started having issues in Sunday's race around lap 15 when something in the suspension of his No. 18 broke that made the car very, very loose and appear to roll too much weight to the right side of the car when Busch would drive around the flat, sweeping corners at NHMS.
The team tried to fix the problem during a prolonged pit stop under the competition caution NASCAR called on lap 35, but didn't seem to make much of a difference other than putting Busch a lap down.
Later in the event -- while Busch was still battling the extremely loose race car that was transferring way too much weight to the right of the car -- he looped the No. 18 coming off turn 2 on lap 83. In the smoke from Busch's spin, David Ragan and Jamie McMurray made contact that caused McMurray to slide into the rear of Busch.
The damage Busch received from the crash broke the rear wing and pushed in the left rear end of the car.
Fortunately, the day didn't get a whole lot worse for Busch, but mainly because it couldn't.
Wrecks later in the race helped Busch's cause, but still left him 8th in points, 74 behind new Chase for the Sprint Cup leader Jimmie Johnson.
Busch would finish 34th, 12 laps down.




