I thought this was a team sport?

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I thought this was a team sport?

By: Pete MacDonald

After the conclusion of Sunday night’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series finale, I hopped onto social media to see what everyone was saying about the evenings race.

What I found was about the polar opposite of what I expected, I really thought people would be congratulating Kyle Busch on being winning his first NASCAR Sprint Cup. A title that came based off of talent and not a rich father, not about a title won just nine months to the day after Kyle sustained a broken left foot and a compound fracture of his right leg in a incident at Daytona, not about a title in which saw Busch win five races to go along with his 12 Top-5’s and 16 Top 10’s. Considering he missed eleven races Kyle Busch was still able to out point drivers such as Austin Dillon, AJ Allmendinger, Danica Patrick, Casey Mears, and Sam Hornish who still ran in every event.

Sounds like a championship caliber season to me, right?

Instead people are ripping NASCAR apart saying; How dare you have a champion that missed 11 races?

At the end of the day, this is a team sport. How do you think the 60+ people that work on that 18 car would feel  if because of a safety flaw at Daytona, that they would not be eligible to race for a championship. That is the equivalent of saying that the New England Patriots couldn’t compete for a Super Bowl because Tom Brady broke his ankle, or the Cleveland Cavaliers weren’t eligible to compete in the NBA Finals because LeBron James broke his arm or something along the lines of that.

Say what you want, but every single one of those drivers that strapped into one of those cars throughout the 2015 campaign, knew the rules regarding the championship. And not a single one of them complained about it.

What do you think about MOTORSPORTS being a team sport in general?

I can be emailed at racersguide@gmail.com or found on Twitter @PMacDonald51. Thanks For Reading!

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