Busch And Ambrose Can Make Three Wins The Charm

Kyle Busch and Marcos Ambrose are both looking for a trifecta of sorts at Watkins Glen International in the Zippo 200 on Saturday, Aug. 7.

Busch is on a record setting pace yet again. In 2008 he tied Sam Ard’s NASCAR Nationwide single season wins record of 10 victories. This season, Busch has made 17 starts, posting nine wins, 13 top fives, 14 top 10s and two poles. This season, he has won half (52%) of his starts. He also has mounted three perfect Driver Ratings (150.0) this year at Iowa, Texas and Dover.

Busch has won the past two in a row (O’Reilly Raceway Park and Iowa Speedway), and once again he can tie the single season wins record (10 wins). A win would also make it three-consecutive victories for Busch, which would be the second time he has done that in his career (April, 2008)

Ambrose broke into the winner’s column for the first time in the NASCAR Nationwide Series in 2008 at Watkins Glen, and repeated at the 2.45-mile speedway last season.

Last year, Ambrose passed Busch late in the race with a maneuver Ambrose called a “dive bomb,” and one Busch called being “cheap-shotted,” to win.

Like Busch, Ambrose winning this weekend would be special because he would become the second driver in series history to win three-in-a-row at Watkins Glen International (Terry Labonte: 1994-’96).

Labonte is the all-time winner at The Glen with four victories — he was the inaugural race winner in 1981.