Kyle Busch: Dangerous at any speed

When will Kyle busch get it?

He's been hailed by some in the NASCAR media as a great driver this year, his first with Joe Gibbs Racing, and indeed, he's had some solid results, having won two Cup races, three Nationwide series races, and two Craftsman truck already in 2008.

But the wins have routinely come as the result of reckless driving. Now, I'm not talking calculated agression, as we used to see practiced by Dale Earnhardt. Like him or not, you had to know "Big E" knew exactly what he was doing, and got the finishes he wanted by driving the way he did.

You don't get that sense of purpose from 23-year-old Kyle Busch. Week in and out, he drives a car that's so loose, he nearly loses control lap after lap, until he finally wrecks, or the car breaks. Sometimes, wrecking someone leads to a win, sometimes it doesn't.

............................... Even Fox announcer Darrell Waltrip, whose unabashed excitement over Busch's performance early this season was becoming tiresome, has toned down his cheerleading in the wake of several events that demonstrate Busch isn't just a "checkers or wreckers" racer, he's sloppy and doesn't care who he hits in the process of making his run.