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Kyle Busch showed up in the Texas Motor Speedway media center in the early Sunday morning hours donning the new cowboy hat he had received in Victory Lane a few moments earlier and smiling like a guy who hasn't lost a race in weeks.
He is that guy.
Busch will arrive in Bristol, Tennessee, this week on a four-race winning streak that includes Camping World Truck Series and Sprint Cup wins two weeks ago in Martinsville, Va. and an XFINITY Series and Sprint Cup sweep on the Texas high banks this past weekend.
He is the first driver since Harry Gant in 1991 to sweep national series events in back-to-back weekends. It's a record ninth time that Busch has swept a race weekend.
As Busch joined his Joe Gibbs Racing team owner Joe Gibbs and crew chief Adam Stevens to answer questions from the media at Texas, he straightened his hat and sat up high in his chair, looking every bit as comfortable in this very familiar position as you might expect.
In prefacing my question to Busch, I rattled off some incredible statistics given to the media earlier that night to put Busch's latest victory in perspective. This was his 18th top-five and 22nd top-10 finish in the 32 races since he returned from serious leg and foot injuries suffered in Daytona last season. Because the information was given minutes before Busch took the checkered flag, the win tally didn't reflect the TMS win.
Busch's first response was to correct my victory total, "that's seven wins," he said grinning -- almost playful in being eager to set the record straight.
And even that correct number is most likely upwardly fleeting.
Busch's win at Texas ties him with Matt Kenseth for third-most all-time (36) among active drivers and at a mere 30 years old, Busch will be approaching the retiring Tony Stewart's 48-win total before long.
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"I think that it's just a part of everyone coming together," Busch said. "It's not just me, it's not just (wife) Samantha, but it's (crew chief) Adam Stevens, it's Coach (Joe) Gibbs, it's the organization and everyone rallying around us. It's my medical team, everyone that helped me, getting me healthy and forcing me to do the therapies and things like that and getting up in the morning and going and trying to get better faster.
"I think things are clicking. Things are jelling. 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."
Busch's body of work since his serious injury is among the top efforts he's had in a 12-year full-time Sprint Cup career -- a substantial run that began when Busch was only 18 years old.
His title run last year remains among the most amazing in Cup history considering the severity of the injuries and that he missed half a season. He returned to claim the 2015 Sprint Cup championship trophy after winning four out of five races a month after his return from a broken leg and foot suffered in the 2015 season-opening XFINITY Series race in Daytona Beach, Florida.
He recorded six top-five finishes in the final 10 races and won the Homestead-Miami finale where he hoisted that championship trophy high.
It's entirely possible that Busch extends this impressive streak at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Busch has won five times in the Sprint Cup car at Bristol and has 13 top-10 runs in 21 starts. But he's gone eight whole Bristol races without a victory, the longest streak between premier series wins there.
He has eight XFINITY Series titles at the half-mile bullring, including four of the last five races. The exception in that span was a "paltry" runner-up finish in the fall of 2014. He has an incredible 18 top-10 runs in 22 XFINITY starts there. And, he has four victories in the Camping World Truck Series races there and finished a near-miss second place last year after winning the pole position.
"You're got to have all the pieces of the puzzle put together, but I think more importantly we've got good cars [and] the crew chiefs are just doing a really good job right now," Busch said. "I feel like the (Toyota Racing Development) guys are on top of their game as well. We've got everything going for us. The cars are good, the engines are good and crew chiefs are smart. Again, whole puzzle."
Another thing about the hat Busch wore after the race -- it was white. For a guy who typically receives "the guy in the black hat" treatment from the crowd, there was a lot of irony in that.
He's a dad now and wants to be a good example for his nearly 1-year old son, Brexton. And when Busch gets booed from the grandstands during driver introductions these days, it's increasingly because he's "winning too much."
After the Texas winner's press conference, Gibbs, Stevens and Busch got up to re-join the celebration. As Busch rose to push his chair under the table, he leaned over to catch my attention and reiterated with a smile, "Remember, that was seven [wins]."
Yes. And, with the way Busch and his team are performing, it won't be the total for long.
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