Last weekend, Tony Stewart became the first owner\/driver to win in NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top series since 1998.<\/p>\n
Kyle Busch smashed a guitar trophy – a Gibson Les Paul model embellished with Sam Bass artistry that carries a five-figure price tag – after winning the Nationwide Series race at Nashville Superspeedway.<\/p>\n
Who got the most attention from race fans and the media? It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even close.<\/p>\n
Internet message boards, radio shows and e-mail in-boxes were lit up, mostly by fans outraged over Busch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s behavior while Stewart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hefty accomplishment was hardly acknowledged.<\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really no surprise. As Busch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s victories in NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Trucks series continue to rack up, so does the attention his actions and words receive…\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last weekend, Tony Stewart became the first owner\/driver to win in NASCAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top series since 1998. Kyle Busch smashed a guitar trophy – a Gibson Les Paul model embellished with Sam Bass artistry that carries a five-figure price tag – after winning the Nationwide Series race at Nashville Superspeedway. Who got the most attention from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14547,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14546\/revisions\/14547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}