Kyle Busch said Friday he might change his plans and try to run the entire Nationwide Series schedule this season. “There’s some thought about it,” Busch said. “We’ll see. I think the possibility is there, but I’m not going to do whatever it takes to get practice in the Nationwide car. I’m going to worry about the Cup stuff and show up to race the Nationwide car.” Busch, who leads the Cup standings, ranks second in the Nationwide standings and second in the Craftsman Truck Series standings. He will not run the entire truck schedule. Busch said they would re-evaluate his schedule after the Nationwide race at Atlanta next weekend. “I believe Tony is going to skip that Atlanta race,” Busch said. “So we’ll probably be the [Nationwide] points leader coming out of that if everything goes right this weekend. Then we’ll decide if we want to go to Mexico City or not. Right now, it’s not on our list, but guys are calling to get a ride in our #20 car for that race, so I might be stealing somebody’s ride.”(ESPN.com)(3-1-2008)
UPDATE: The one-time thought of running the full Nationwide Series schedule is quickly fading [for Busch]. “Probably for now, Im going to decide to back out of adding more races,” Busch said Friday at Martinsville Speedway. “We havent done any of that yet. The thought is still to go to Mexico, but Im trying to get out of that if I can now.”(SceneDaily.com)(3-28-2008)
UPDATE 2: Kyle Busch said Friday the decision on whether to run the entire Nationwide Series schedule is strictly up to him. “It really depends on our Cup effort,” Busch said. “We’re still going race-by-race and see how it goes,” Busch said. “If I win this weekend, that doesn’t change it. Cup testing is going to come into play. We’re going to have to out to places [non-Cup tracks] to work on it. That tends to make me tired, so I may not want to do all the traveling back and forth from Sonoma to Milwaukee and from Kentucky to Michigan.”(ESPN.com)(4-18-2008)
