Bud Shootout 2012 Results: Kyle Busch Will Be a Major Force in NASCAR in 2012

If you had any doubts about Kyle Busch’s potential impact in the 2012 Sprint Cup Series, you must be thinking twice after Busch edged defending NASCAR champion Tony Stewart to win Saturday night’s Budweiser Shootout. The exhibition race certainly proved that Busch—who pushed Stewart ahead on the last lap before winning by less than three inches—will be a force to be reckoned with this year, after he staged the closest finish in the history of the event. In a preview of the Daytona 500, Busch made two exceptional saves to beat Stewart by 0.013 seconds in a race that went to a two-lap overtime sprint to the finish. It wasn’t an easy win for Busch, who spun multiple times but didn’t spin out. Busch got spun ...

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