Kyle Busch So Far, So Good

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It was only the first race of the 10-race run to decide the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship, but Kyle Busch and his M&M’s team started NASCAR’s playoffs with a championship-like effort.

The driver of the No. 18 M&M’s Peanut Butter Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) brought home a solid second-place finish Sunday at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill., leading 67 laps and enabling the No. 18 team to come out of the gates strong and move up one spot to second in the standings behind JGR teammate and Chicagoland winner Matt Kenseth.

Fans will even have more reasons – a million to be exact – to hope Busch continues to show the consistency in order to win the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship as primary backer M&M’s will celebrate with America by giving away 1 million free bags of M&M’S.

Even more good news is that the next race on the schedule is Sunday’s Sylvania 300, the site of another strong second place for Busch and the No. 18 team during their last trip there together in July. And as everyone has learned over the years, consistency is the formula for championship success. To be in this position, Busch and his M&M’s Peanut Butter team have been among the most consistent in Sprint Cup with a series-leading 12 top-five finishes and an impressive 16 top-10s in the 27 races contested thus far in 2013.

It’s on to New Hampshire for round two of the Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship, and Busch has enjoyed plenty of success at the “Magic Mile,” particularly at the start of his career when he scored a Sprint Cup win in July 2006 to go with seven top-10s in 17 starts. Outside the Sprint Cup ranks, Busch has four wins, one pole and five top-five results in eight NASCAR Nationwide Series starts at Loudon to go with three wins, one pole and six top-10s in seven NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races at the 1.058-mile oval.

With a close call in July, might this finally be the weekend Busch, Rogers, and the M&M’s Peanut Butter team will have things fall into place in the form of a magical finish together at the “Magic Mile?” If their last trip there is any indication, they just could be the ones to watch come Sunday afternoon.

And while it’s “so far, so good” at the start of this year’s Chase, things could turn into “so far, really good” with another solid run and a continuation of an already good start to this year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup playoffs.

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