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The Sunday after we lined up NASCAR driver Kyle Busch to do this Q&A, he won his first career road-course race, the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon. We wondered if Freakonomics luck had something to do with it. Then last week, as your questions were coming in, he snagged the No. 1 spot in Sports Illustrated’s NASCAR Power Rankings. The only bad luck for Busch, and the rest of NASCAR, may lie in falling NASCAR attendance rates due in part to high gas prices. Corporate sponsorships are also said to be significantly harder to come by, especially for lower-tier teams and drivers. Busch races today in the Nationwide Series Winn-Dixie 250 at Daytona. The local forecast predicts bad weather, but he’s probably not concerned: He won the same race last year in the rain. And then tomorrow, he’s in the Sprint Cup Coke Zero 400. Look for... [read full story]
