Long live the king of restarts

Kyle Busch won going away in the NASCAR Nationwide Series race on Saturday night at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana. It prompted one reporter to ask if Busch considers himself the king of restarts.
That distinction belongs to Ron Hornaday Jr., a driver for Kevin Harvick Inc. on the Craftsman Truck Series. He developed his knack for building huge leads on restarts while racing late models at Saugus Speedway. He still has that reputation on the Truck Series. No one wants to be behind Hornaday on a restart late in a race.
Busch isn't ready to take that distinction away from Hornaday.
"I don't think anybody's really labeled me the king of restarts yet," Busch said. "That's always going to be Hornaday's. But I sort of caught up to him a little bit, I feel like anyways, as good if not right there with him."
Busch learned how to build leads on restarts racing legend cars and late models at the Bullring in Las Vegas in much the same way Hornaday learned at Saugus Speedway.
"As far as being able to learn that, it comes from my dad teaching us the ropes of restarts back in the day of racing legends cars, late models, all that stuff," Busch said. "Doing different things with gear ratios, and all that stuff. We can't really decide it here, but just having as sense of that knowledge really lays in and stays with you throughout your career."