NASCAR Cup

Kyle Busch likes his chances. Last week at Texas Motor Speedway, the reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion swept the Xfinity Series and Cup races — a week after winning both the Camping World Truck Series and Cup races at Martinsville Speedway.

When Carl Edwards wins the pole at Bristol, good things happen – for Edwards.

Triumphant in last year’s Daytona 500, Joey Logano partook in his signature celebration. He climbed on the door of his yellow and red No. 22 Shell-Pennzoil Ford and ecstatically pumped his steering wheel in the air with his left hand as he was pelted with champagne and confetti following the biggest win of his career.

For the second straight weekend in a row, Kyle Busch broke out the broom and swept both NASCAR events.

With Friday night’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race already in the books as another Kyle Busch victory, series director Wayne Auton already is turning his full attention toward next Saturday’s race at Bristol and its inaugural heat race format.

Opportunistic Kyle Busch sped away from the rest of the field after a restart with 33 laps left in Saturday night’s Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway and collected his second straight NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory.

It was a chipper Tony Stewart who lingered after Thursday night’s Texas Motorsports Hall of Fame dinner, answering questions from reporters and posing for selfies with a succession of admirers.

Carl Edwards didn’t run a perfect lap in Friday’s final round of knockout qualifying, but he had plenty of car to compensate.

At first glance, it’s easy to perceive Matt Kenseth’s start to the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season as “slow.” The No. 20 Toyota driver only has one top-10 finish in the first six races, one year after amassing five victories and 19 top-10 showings.

Going into this weekend, Kyle Busch had never scored a grandfather clock trophy given to the winner at Martinsville Speedway. By the time the sun set on Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, he had changed that.