Kyle Busch's 2010 NASCAR sweep at Bristol...
Item # 727015
August 22, 2010
LOS ANGELES TIMES, Aug. 19, 21 & 22, 2010
* Kyle Busch's "Triple Sweep" at Bristol Motor Speedway
* First time in NASCAR history for a driver to win all 3
* Craftsman Truck, Nationwide and Sprint Cup series
This is a rare trio on Kyle Busch's history making "Triple Sweep" at Bristol Motor Speedway. He is the only NASCAR driver to achieve this feat and he did it again 7 years later.
The Aug. 19 & 21 issues give a minimal account of the Craftsman Truck & Nationwide series victories with just a chart showing the final results. (see images) This is normal as these two NASCAR series don't get much coverage.
But the Aug. 22 issue which is the most important out the three has a heading at the top of page C10: "NASCAR sweep for Kyle Busch" with chart. (see images)
I suspect these issues to be an extremely rare because there was really no reason to save them at the time, especially the first two to make a complete set as such.
Each of these issues have the complete 1st and sports sections only with a total 30, 30 & 44 pages, great condition.
Background: Kyle Busch’s August 2010 "Triple Sweep" at Bristol Motor Speedway holds monumental historical significance as the first time in NASCAR history that a driver won all three national touring series races—the Craftsman Truck, Nationwide, and Sprint Cup Series—at the same track in a single weekend. This unprecedented feat shattered the sport's modern-era limitations, demanding that Busch survive 850 grueling laps on Bristol’s brutally high-banked, concrete half-mile while seamlessly adapting to three vastly different race vehicles over a four-day span. Driving his own No. 18 Toyota Tundra on Wednesday night, Busch overcame a back-of-the-pack penalty to lead 116 laps and win the Truck race; he followed this on Friday by surviving a fiercely controversial, paint-trading feud with rival Brad Keselowski to take the Nationwide checkered flag. On Saturday night, under the immense pressure of a hostile crowd and Keselowski famously calling him an expletive over the PA system during driver introductions, Busch delivered a masterclass in the Irwin Tools Night Race, leading 282 of 500 laps to cement the historic trifecta. By celebrating on the frontstretch with a literal broom, Busch solidified his legacy as one of the most versatile and fiercely competitive stock car drivers of all time, establishing a milestone so elusive that he remains the only driver to ever achieve it, later repeating the feat at the exact same track in 2017.
* Kyle Busch's "Triple Sweep" at Bristol Motor Speedway
* First time in NASCAR history for a driver to win all 3
* Craftsman Truck, Nationwide and Sprint Cup series
This is a rare trio on Kyle Busch's history making "Triple Sweep" at Bristol Motor Speedway. He is the only NASCAR driver to achieve this feat and he did it again 7 years later.
The Aug. 19 & 21 issues give a minimal account of the Craftsman Truck & Nationwide series victories with just a chart showing the final results. (see images) This is normal as these two NASCAR series don't get much coverage.
But the Aug. 22 issue which is the most important out the three has a heading at the top of page C10: "NASCAR sweep for Kyle Busch" with chart. (see images)
I suspect these issues to be an extremely rare because there was really no reason to save them at the time, especially the first two to make a complete set as such.
Each of these issues have the complete 1st and sports sections only with a total 30, 30 & 44 pages, great condition.
Background: Kyle Busch’s August 2010 "Triple Sweep" at Bristol Motor Speedway holds monumental historical significance as the first time in NASCAR history that a driver won all three national touring series races—the Craftsman Truck, Nationwide, and Sprint Cup Series—at the same track in a single weekend. This unprecedented feat shattered the sport's modern-era limitations, demanding that Busch survive 850 grueling laps on Bristol’s brutally high-banked, concrete half-mile while seamlessly adapting to three vastly different race vehicles over a four-day span. Driving his own No. 18 Toyota Tundra on Wednesday night, Busch overcame a back-of-the-pack penalty to lead 116 laps and win the Truck race; he followed this on Friday by surviving a fiercely controversial, paint-trading feud with rival Brad Keselowski to take the Nationwide checkered flag. On Saturday night, under the immense pressure of a hostile crowd and Keselowski famously calling him an expletive over the PA system during driver introductions, Busch delivered a masterclass in the Irwin Tools Night Race, leading 282 of 500 laps to cement the historic trifecta. By celebrating on the frontstretch with a literal broom, Busch solidified his legacy as one of the most versatile and fiercely competitive stock car drivers of all time, establishing a milestone so elusive that he remains the only driver to ever achieve it, later repeating the feat at the exact same track in 2017.
Category: The 20th Century
