Kyle Busch: Still Learning Lessons the Hard Way

Nobody would say Kyle Busch doesn't have talent.  Even the drivers and fans that dislike him have to give him that much anyway. 

But Busch still hasn't come to terms that talent doesn't beat simple math, physics or geometry.  His car is only 71.7 inches wide, yet he tries to block cars with it as if it were 100 inches wide.

Maybe if he had finished high school before he started driving in NASCAR, he would have sat in a geometry class and learned two solids can't occupy the same space without a reaction.

And should he have sat in on a physics class or two, he would have learned for every action there could be an equal and opposite reaction. 

Those lessons may have caused him to have not moved up the track to block Tony Stewart when Stewart had his bumper a few inches further down the track than  Kyle figured.

Busch has once again seen the "equal and opposite" reaction to such decisions by going into the wall rather than down the track.

Blocking is as old an action as there is in driving races.  So are the ramifications of doing it poorly.

After the race, Busch was trying to make it Victory Lane before going to the infield care center.  What he would have said and done remains to be seen because he left without any word to the press.

And therein lies another lesson Busch might want to learn, humility.

This stomping off and sulking routine is getting a little old now that he's no longer wearing the short pants of a rookie.  It's time he started acting like an adult if he wants to be treated like one.

So before you want to stomp to victory lane and confront the man who only tried to pass you and you blocked yourself into the wall by not knowing you weren't clear, why not talk to one of the "men" of the sport first.

There's a lot of them that would be glad for you to learn what they could teach you.