[umgud]

Kurt Busch peresented himself well with a 6th place finish.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Dang right! Busch impressed me. Like ‘em or hate ‘em, those Busch boys are some driving fools. Congratulations to Kurt.

[theneanderthal]

Outstanding race and finish.

[MtnClimber]

Dear Leader Zer0 has declared that the loser should be declared the winner. And the prize money should go to the alcoholic homeless begger guy across from the track.

[ExCTCitizen]

I hate Kurt Busch...he’s better than Kyle but they are jerks.

[Tupelo]

Bush did very well. Especially since this was his first ever race in an IRL car and maybe his first open wheel race. And that Andretti team, four of the first six! I AM impressed.

[SuperLuminal]

Bet he’d have done even better if he hadn’t wrecked the #1 car...Still awesome, IMHO

[ExNewsExSpook]

I remember when the Indy 500 was one of the premier events in sports; ABC aired it on tape delay so it could be seen in prime time. Anyone with a bit of interest in the race avoided radio and TV news reports before the telecast, so they wouldn’t know who won before the evening broadcast.

Four decades later, the featured prime time race is a NASCAR event, the Coca-Cola 600. And many of the story lines from the Indy 500 focused on Kurt Busch, who is becoming the latest NASCAR drive to participate in both races on the same day.

The decline of Indy car racing—and the rise of NASCAR—is one of the great stories in American sports over the past 40 years. Plenty of experts never gave NASCAR a chance until they discovered that it had become a national sport, completely eclipsing the Indy series.