By all accounts, the past few weeks have been challenging for Kyle Busch ‘ and that’s putting it extremely mildly. After finishing second in the Brickyard 400 on July 27, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver failed to record a single top-10 finish over the final six races of the Sprint Cup Series regular season. In four of those races, Busch finished outside the top 35, and it was after the last of those results ‘ a 36th-place finish at Bristol in August ‘ that frustrations finally boiled over for the driver and his #18 Joe Gibbs Racing team. After Busch radioed to crew chief Dave Rogers late at Bristol that his ill-handling car needed a whole new right-front suspension, Rogers promptly responded by telling his driver to ‘park it behind the truck and take your whiny little ass to the bus.’ Cooler heads have since prevailed, and Busch indicated during Thursday’s Chase Media Day activities in Chicago that there is harmony between the two heading into the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup. ‘Things are fine. Things were fine at Atlanta, things were fine at Richmond,’ Busch said, referring to the two races that followed Bristol. ‘Everyone’s at zero now. You want to be running better, you want to be winning those last two or three races before going into the Chase, but I don’t know that anybody’s ever really done that in a row, and then they go into the Chase and carry that momentum through. This is just sort of like going to Daytona. It’s a fresh start to the year, and you just try to work it out.’(FoxSports)(9-12-2014)
