This is the Kyle Busch that caught NASCAR's fascination when he began finding success in Sprint Cup racing.
A driver capable of reeling off a string of wins once he gets on a roll. One who perhaps excels even more when he's running double and sometimes even triple duty at the track. The one bowing on the frontstretch, laughing in Victory Lane.
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The one who seems invincible in the closing laps of the race.
The one who has turned sweeping race weekends into a fine art — and has now done just that two weekends in a row.
The one who must be causing his team to already be thinking of the Chase for the Sprint Cup, though it must try hard not to do so — and who must also be causing the competitors to think the same, though not in quite the same joyful manner.
Busch's car was rear-ended by Jimmie Johnson's car on pit road early in the Duck Commander 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, but it was merely a blip. After winning Friday's Xfinity race at Texas Motor Speedway (a win that followed April 3's Sprint Cup victory at Martinsville, which followed a Truck series win the day before), Busch shot past the competition and to the win in Saturday night's Cup race.
He did so without dominating in the race, without even being the driver to watch for most of it. Martin Truex Jr., who led 141 laps, and Carl Edwards, who led 124 from pole position, took that title. But it was Busch who took the lead on Lap 301 of the 334 — and Busch left to hoist that trophy.
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His win marked his second career weekend sweep at Texas Motor Speedway and second Cup win at the track.
After the race, Busch deferred much of the credit for this victory.
Crew chief "Adam Stevens and all these guys, they come here well prepared to start with, and had a good practice plan and everything, and we were able to set up our race car to my liking," he said. " … Adam made awesome adjustments all night long, though, and kept us in the game and kept getting us better and took us from probably being a sixth-, eighth-place car, something like that, to then being able to run up front in the top three, and barring different tire circumstances or different restart circumstances at the end, giving us a shot to win."
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Busch showed strength since returning to racing after a broken leg and broken foot in 2015's season-opening Xfinity race at Daytona International Speedway. Since returning for last season's 13th race, he has seven Cup wins. According to NASCAR, he has led more than 1,200 laps since his return. And he won the 2015 Sprint Cup title after making his comeback.
With this weekend sweep, Busch became the second driver since Harry Gant in 1991 to sweep races in back-to-back weekends. Now, Busch has swept the Cup and Xfinity races at tracks nine times in his career, according to NASCAR.
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To what does he owe his success?
"I think the magic is Kyle Busch, but that's just me," Busch said, joking during the post-race news conference with team owner Joe Gibbs.
"Right, Joe?"
Gibbs laughed as he responded, "Just when I thought you were starting to really … don't freak out on me."
"Yeah, exactly," Busch said.
In reality, though, Busch is quick to credit everyone around him — his Joe Gibbs Racing team and its ability to grow and adapt.
It's something Gibbs has also noted.
"It's hard to get a chemistry like Adam and Kyle have," Gibbs said. "They developed it, I think, over the Xfinity program and everything that happened there. But to get them out to do what they did last year, Adam's first year, just really, I think, it's a special chemistry that they have, and I think it shows up week after week. A big thanks to them for that and all the hard work that Adam puts into that.
"Our pit crew, too, our guys that work in that area, we spend a lot of time on that. It's a big deal for us, and it really pays off."
Busch agrees. When asked to pinpoint the reason for his success, he pointed out all the success the team is experiencing these days — and his plans to try to keep up the recent trend.
"Things are clicking," he said. "Things are jelling, and it wouldn't be possible probably, like Joe mentioned, without the relationship that Adam and I were able to spend gathering and gaining in the Xfinity Series. If we would have came into this Cup deal not really knowing each other, it probably wouldn't have been as good as it was. So I think that has been a huge part of it, as well, too.
"It's all worked real well, and it's been exciting to have the success that we've had as of late, and let's just keep it going."
Next, NASCAR heads to Tennessee for its first Bristol weekend. The Food City 500 caps the weekend, starting after 1 p.m. ET Sunday.