Kyle Busch, R.I.P. |
Going into one of the biggest auto-racing weekends of the entire year — both the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 are Memorial Day weekend classics — the motorsports world is now dominated by a more shocking headline: Two-time NASCAR Cup champion Kyle Busch passed away yesterday at the age of 41.
Born and raised in Las Vegas, Busch followed his older brother (and fellow champion) Kurt into stock car racing’s uppermost ranks. By the age of 16, he’d already made his way to NASCAR, racing in the Craftsman Truck Series — the same series, incidentally, in which he secured his final race win at........