Halfway Home: 2011 Sprint Cup Midseason Awards
And just like that, we’re at the halfway point of the arduous Sprint Cup schedule: 18 in the books, 18 still to go and just eight races until the Chase… and all the associated hype begins. As seems to be pretty much de rigueur with NASCAR across the first half of the 2011 campaign, there have been ups and downs, highs and lows, great races and eye-gougingly terrible ones: in short, a little bit of everything. So as we head into the second half of the schedule, starting this weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway here are my midseason awards:
*Best Driver: Kyle Busch*
It was pretty much a typical weekend for arguably NASCAR’s busiest driver. Not only did he pick up a win in the Truck Series (his fifth victory in just eight races), Busch finished third in the Nationwide race and then completed the weekend with a victory in the inaugural Cup race at Kentucky Speedway.