Kyle Busch: The fans hate me but I don't care
Kyle Busch may not have won the Sprint Cup, but NASCAR's best racer is the man the fans love to hate, as Charles Bradley explains
Kyle Busch wouldn't have a prayer if real life was a popularity contest like the X-Factor. He is undoubtedly the most despised driver in the eyes of NASCAR fans, yet he's also the genre's pound-for-pound quickest racer. As the Americans like to say when faced with a paradox, go figure.
He didn't win any of this year's major league stock car titles (at one point, however, he led all three, which was a first) but his amazing 21 wins across the three categories - Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Trucks - puts him in a league of his own.
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Charles Bradley is Chief Editor of Autosport US. After spending five years in the aerospace industry in his native North Wales, while working weekends as a freelance writer at racetracks around the UK, Charles joined the staff of Motoring News in the heart of London. He transferred to the nascent Autosport.com team in 2000 before transitioning to the magazine, becoming its Editor between 2011 and 2014. Charles then upped sticks to work in America, as Motorsport.com’s Editor in Chief, where he created the multi-national and multi-lingual editorial team that quickly became the world’s most-read motorsport website. He was instrumental in delivering three of the biggest Global F1 Fan Surveys in sports history and is also a multiple award-winning scriptwriter. Charles is an overseas member of the Guild of Motoring Writers and lives in Miami Beach with his wife Helen – and a cat that’s named after Serbia’s top football club.
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