Kyle Busch was so dominant at the inaugural 400-mile NASCAR Sprint Cup race at the 1.5 mile Kentucky Speedway, the result was in doubt for only a blink of the eye.
After describing a mano-a-mano restart with Jimmie Johnson late in the race Busch said: “It was certainly a tense moment there for a second.”
At the checkers David Reutimann finished second and the five-time Champion Johnson finished tird.
“He was strong all night long,” Johnson said of Busch. “Spent a lot of time chasing him (and) watched him inch away from me the longer the run went on.”
There was much hoopla at the track, the first new one on the Cup schedule since Chicagoland in 2001, but the exciting racing promised by track owner didn’t happen.
The race appeared to be run in segments of long green flag runs, most of them dominated by Busch. The driver, who led 125 of the 267 laps, was as dominant as he was two nights before when he won the truck race from the back of the gird.
Passing during those green flag periods seemed impossible, it was to the point that Busch was rooting for Reutimann to come past Johnson and challenge him.
“I was like, 'C’mon, Reuty. If you start racing him and hold him up, that’s going to help me,”’ Busch said.
Reutimann, who hadn’t seen victory lane in a year, had mixed emotions at the finish.
"We had that restart and you knew Kyle (Busch) wasn’t going to roll over for anything and Jimmie’s (Johnson) pretty intense too, so we just ended up coming in and Kyle threw a block to kill Jimmie’s momentum down the front.
"I had a little bit of run down the back and Jimmie was either going to go to the top or the bottom getting in and I was not going to go where he was.
"He went to the bottom and our car actually did pretty good on the outside, so got a run on top and got it back to (Turn) four pointed in the right direction and Jimmie gave me enough room up there.
"He could of crowded me and he didn’t and we ended up getting a decent finish,” said Reutimann.
The news of the day was more with fans frustration to get to the race track which is located south of the mid-west city, Cincinnati.
Race officials also had to deal with angry fans stuck for hours an interstate highway which could not handle the traffic generated by 100,000 people wanting to experience the first new NASCAR race in years.
“This is such a great market, so many fans are enthused and want to be here,” Johnson said. “To not get them all in the door is kind of a bummer.”
Fans with paid tickets were turned away when parking lots overflowed.
“We expect the track to address this head on and have a much better situation for the fans moving forward,” NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp said.
After describing a mano-a-mano restart with Jimmie Johnson late in the race Busch said: “It was certainly a tense moment there for a second.”
At the checkers David Reutimann finished second and the five-time Champion Johnson finished tird.
“He was strong all night long,” Johnson said of Busch. “Spent a lot of time chasing him (and) watched him inch away from me the longer the run went on.”
There was much hoopla at the track, the first new one on the Cup schedule since Chicagoland in 2001, but the exciting racing promised by track owner didn’t happen.
The race appeared to be run in segments of long green flag runs, most of them dominated by Busch. The driver, who led 125 of the 267 laps, was as dominant as he was two nights before when he won the truck race from the back of the gird.
Passing during those green flag periods seemed impossible, it was to the point that Busch was rooting for Reutimann to come past Johnson and challenge him.
“I was like, 'C’mon, Reuty. If you start racing him and hold him up, that’s going to help me,”’ Busch said.
Reutimann, who hadn’t seen victory lane in a year, had mixed emotions at the finish.
"We had that restart and you knew Kyle (Busch) wasn’t going to roll over for anything and Jimmie’s (Johnson) pretty intense too, so we just ended up coming in and Kyle threw a block to kill Jimmie’s momentum down the front.
"I had a little bit of run down the back and Jimmie was either going to go to the top or the bottom getting in and I was not going to go where he was.
"He went to the bottom and our car actually did pretty good on the outside, so got a run on top and got it back to (Turn) four pointed in the right direction and Jimmie gave me enough room up there.
"He could of crowded me and he didn’t and we ended up getting a decent finish,” said Reutimann.
The news of the day was more with fans frustration to get to the race track which is located south of the mid-west city, Cincinnati.
Race officials also had to deal with angry fans stuck for hours an interstate highway which could not handle the traffic generated by 100,000 people wanting to experience the first new NASCAR race in years.
“This is such a great market, so many fans are enthused and want to be here,” Johnson said. “To not get them all in the door is kind of a bummer.”
Fans with paid tickets were turned away when parking lots overflowed.
“We expect the track to address this head on and have a much better situation for the fans moving forward,” NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp said.