Why Fans Can’t Like Kyle Busch as A Champion

By: Darius Goodman

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After taking time to process what was by far the STUPIDEST points season in NASCAR history that I’ve ever witnessed. I subjected myself to looking all over for some kind of fluke that Kyle Busch really wasn’t the 2015 Sprint Cup Champion and unfortunately, I couldn’t find it and have to accept the fact that Kyle Busch is the current reigning Sprint Cup Champion.

NOT!

This is a “Champion” with the biggest asterisk next to his name that I have ever seen. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why NASCAR would grant Kyle Busch a waiver into the Chase when he was involved in an accident that occurred when he was racing in a series that he ultimately had no business racing in.

Because he was involved in a crash in the XFINITY Series, NASCAR deemed it worthy for him to advance into the Chase so long as he met certain guidelines that were really easy for this guy to meet. Screw the fact that he had to win, which we already knew was going to happen, Kyle Busch had to meet a certain points position line to get that berth into the Chase, which was riddled with low performing teams and drivers that cannot match the power of Joe Gibbs Racing. Ultimately giving this guy the easiest way into the Chase, mathematically he had to have a good average finish, lead enough laps and avoid DNFs. He managed to do all of that, get two DNFs and STILL make it into the Chase. There wasn’t enough competition to keep him down and NASCAR mathematically didn’t figure that Kyle Busch and his team can find ways to do things that aren’t natural but the fans were forced to listen to his name and follow his in race progress each and every single week.

Kyle Busch was the most talked about driver all season long, even when he was hurt, he was still talked about. Erik Jones filled in for him for a few races and the announcers made jokes saying that if Kyle Busch doesn’t hurry back, Jones might have his ride. Let’s not talk about how this impressive young driver named Erik Jones was racing in a car he’s never driven in before, he was racing well and wasn’t just falling in the field and looking like a rookie, Jones was looking like a full out veteran. But, moving forward.

Now, for the next season I along with many other NASCAR fans will have to listen to announcers call Kyle Busch a champion when he doesn’t even deserve it. If he wasn’t allowed that waiver I truly figure that Kevin Harvick would have been a repeat champion and I would have been fine with that. Even Joey Logano would have been a better champion if it wasn’t for Matt Kenseth and the small string of inconsistent runs that placed him in the elimination round. Since it was Kyle Busch though, I cannot respect him as a champion and I will not ever respect him as a champion of NASCAR until he truly wins a championship by racing the whole season, not bothering with Xfinity cup teams and staying in the division he is SUPPOSED to stay in.

Kyle Busch is not the 2015 Sprint Cup Champion, Kevin Harvick is in my books. There is nothing that will change my mindset. Hard work my tail, a lucky waiver landed him in the Championship position all because of an accident that shouldn’t have happened if he would have just stayed in Sprint Cup in the first place. Kyle Busch isn’t the best driver in NASCAR.

Sorry Kyle Busch Fans, not sorry.

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