KYLE BUSCH MAKES NASCAR HISTORY
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Tim says it for me. Maybe Kyle can jet from race to race and climb in cars and go out and drive, but Kyle will NEVER fill Sam Ard's shoes. Kyle can also climb out of a race car, run to the hauler or motorhome pouting if he didn't win and be shuttled to the next venue. Sam and others like him didn't have those options and this makes it impossible to compare the two drivers. If Busch wrecks a car, he climbs out and leaves. Sam fixed it and went out for more or fixed it so it could get on the trailer. Different times that's for sure.I've seen many drivers back in the day working on their race cars including watching a very upset A.J Foyt finally pulling into the pits at Michigan with his Indycar, pushing the crew out of the way and turning the wrenches while the crew watched from behind the wall. Talk about a loud cheer from the crowd. These guys knew their cars inside out. Tim Leeming said:
To compare what Kyle Busch has done with what Sam Ard did is simply not possible. Kyle won the races he won in a multi-million dollar financed team, far above the finances of any other team in Nationwide, having never touched one part of the car but the steering wheel. He never stayed up late working on it and he didn't tow it to the track. Granted, Kyle did achieve a lot with the win yesterday, but until he can be the man Sam Ard is, all Kyle Busch represents is dollars winning races. Sam was, is, and for a very long time to come, the justified hero to hundreds of thousands of fans who recall those days. Thank you Sam Ard.