The Bible tells us:
Sorrow is better than laughter,
because a sad face is good for the heart.
In this light, Kevin Harvick had a better time than Kyle Busch during today’s Atlanta truck race.
The natural tendency whenever Busch is in a race and starting up front, as was the case today, is to automatically put it in his win column and get ready to catch up on ones sleep during the content to see who gets to finish second behind Shrub. Not today. Harvick and Todd Bodine with occasional guest appearances by Matt Crafton and friends joined forces with Busch fighting an ill-handling truck that often was too loose for even his tastes to assemble a slam-bang affair with no dearth of drama throughout.
The race was mostly incident-free save when Colin Braun took umbrage with Ricky Carmichael not leaving him comps for the next AMA event and later on Mike Skinner enabling Braun to demonstrate why all tracks should have mandatory SAFER barriers on inside walls. Meanwhile, up front there was plenty of seriously good stuff going on with passing a-plenty, massive charges through the field, and a concluding segment which saw Busch immediately slide back several positions due to a missing gear and then get it in gear to first slip by and then hold off a furiously charging Harvick.
Here’s hoping tomorrow’s Cup race is even close to being as good.
