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Daytona 500 champion Kurt Busch will be back behind the wheel and on the race track again on Sunday, but first, he gets to celebrate a little more.
Kurt Busch, who closed as a 28-1 long shot, helped bail out Las Vegas sports books, which would’ve taken a big hit had Chase Elliott won.
The carnage that was Sunday’s 59th running of the Daytona 500 was devastating when it came to twisted metal, bone-dry fuel tanks and broken hearts. Take the 3-1 betting favorite, Dale Earnhardt Jr., for instance.
Everything seemed blueprint-perfect Sunday afternoon for stock car racer Kyle Busch, brother of Daytona 500 winner Kurt Busch.
Surprisingly, there were more groans than cheers when Kurt Busch’s rivals ran out gas and the Las Vegas native pulled away to win his first Daytona 500 victory.
Kurt Busch led a solitary lap of the Daytona 500. It was the right one. The last one. And, finally — vroom! — his desertlike drought at the Daytona 500 was quenched.
Brendan Gaughan will slide into the snug cockpit of his brawny midnight-black Chevrolet stock car Sunday and occupy a seat his team owner, Mark Beard, has coveted since childhood.
Handicapper Micah Roberts likes William Hill’s prop on Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s finish position to go over 6½ (minus-135) in the Daytona 500 on Sunday.
Talented racing brothers Kurt and Kyle Busch each has won a Cup Series championship, but they are a combined 0-for-26 in the Great American Race.