Waitin’ On a Rainy Day

Nobody likes to see a sporting event shortened by inclement weather, but in some cases, you can’t help but smile.

Just ask Kurt Busch, who won Sunday’s Lenox Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway after the impending rain arrived, washing out the remaining 16 laps.

Kurt Busch, much like younger brother, Kyle, the week before at the treacherous Infineon Raceway road course, may not have had the fastest car, but instead went gambling and hit the jackpot.

Following a caution on Lap 271, twenty-nine miles from the finish, Busch’s Miller Lite Dodge, and a handful of other cars running at the tail end of the lead lap, elected not to stop for gas.

These drivers and their crew chiefs weren’t idiots – they realized that not a single car on the track had enough fuel to make it the full 300 laps.

What they were banking on was a rainstorm, and a torrential one at that.

It didn’t seem like a bad plan, considering a band of rain showers had

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