HOMESTEAD, FL - NOVEMBER 22: Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M's Crispy Toyota, poses with the trophy in Victory Lane after winning the series championship and the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 22, 2015 in Homestead, Florida. (Photo by Sarah Crabill/Getty Images)
The 2015 Sprint Cup Series started off in the worst possible way for Kyle Busch.
In February, he was eight laps away from finishing the season-opening race at Daytona when he was involved in a multi-car crash. After his car slammed into a concrete wall, Busch was placed on a stretcher and taken away for medical attention; he a compound fracture in his right leg, a fracture in his left foot, and a sprained finger. He missed out on the first 11 race points of the year and didn’t return until May.
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NASCAR granted Busch a waiver saying he could take part in the chase for the Sprint Cup if he met two conditions: win at least one race and finish the season in the top-30 in points at the end of the season. He managed to meet both of those and progress onwards.
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On Sunday, he completed the dream comeback at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Busch led for 41 laps of the 267-lap race, including the last seven to claim his first career postseason win.
“This is just so unbelievable, so amazing and means so much right here, right now and probably will for a long, long time to come,” Busch said on the championship stage. “The opportunity that the amount of people that have poured their life and soul into everything that Kyle Busch does and is about — from M&M’s to Toyota to Snickers and Twix and Skittles, Joe Gibbs (team owner) and his family and all of Joe Gibbs Racing, everyone that gave me such a fast race car here tonight to drive. It was so much fun.
“This is just a dream come true and my family, my wife, my son — to have him this year and to have everything we’ve gone through this year to be in this moment,” he concluded. “I don’t know what else to say, but this is so special.”
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