{"id":22883,"date":"2019-11-17T23:07:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T04:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=22883"},"modified":"2019-11-17T23:07:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T04:07:18","slug":"busch-declares-title-for-rowdy-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/11\/17\/busch-declares-title-for-rowdy-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Busch declares title for \u201cRowdy Nation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6443.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22882\" width=\"922\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6443.jpg 922w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6443-594x323.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6443-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6443-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6443-696x379.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6443-771x420.jpg 771w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kyle Busch viewer winning the championship this year as a way to validate his 2015 title which some feel came with an asterisk as Busch missed several races following a crash in the Xfinity Series race at Daytona which caused him to miss several events at the beginning of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Busch rebounded and went on to win the title that year. After winning the regular season championship this year Busch used points accumulated during those races to advance though the rounds into the championship race as he struggled to score wins. That all changed on Sunday in the Ford EcoBoost 400.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2019\/11\/17\/busch-wins-cup-series-title-ford-ecoboost-400-results\/\">Busch wins EcoBoost 400<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(53, 53, 53); color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: Merriweather, \"Times New Roman\", Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\u201cWe have a great race team and a great owner,\u201d an emotional Busch said after climbing from his car. \u201cEverybody always says you never give up and we\u2019re no different,. Sometimes we may not be the best, sometimes we may not have the right track position. Today we had a really good car and I could race around and move around.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(53, 53, 53); color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: Merriweather, \"Times New Roman\", Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\u201cThere\u2019s always your doubters, there\u2019s always your haters,\u201d Busch said smiling. \u201cYou know what? This one\u2019s for the Rowdy Nation. You guys are the best. Thank you so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(53, 53, 53); color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: Merriweather, \"Times New Roman\", Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">Busch was not alone in tying the two title wins together.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(53, 53, 53); color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: Merriweather, \"Times New Roman\", Times, serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">\u201cWe had a cold spell there,\u201d crew chief Adam Stevens. \u201cIt\u2019s been well-documented, believe it or not. Quite a few questions about it. Felt a little bit like 2015 to me. Take the broken legs out of the equation. We were hot early in 2015 when Kyle came back. We didn\u2019t win since Indy that year, then came to Homestead and got the job done.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(53, 53, 53); color: rgb(53, 53, 53); font-family: Merriweather, \"Times New Roman\", Times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">Busch became the 16th driver in NASCAR history to score multiple titles. He joins Jimmie Johnson as the only active members on that list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Busch viewer winning the championship this year as a way to validate his 2015 title which some feel came with an asterisk as Busch missed several races following a crash in the Xfinity Series race at Daytona which caused him to miss several events at the beginning of the season. Busch rebounded and went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,375,708],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-nascar-topstory","9":"category-news","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-kyle-busch","12":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22883"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}