This week in Las Vegas auto racing
 
This week in Las Vegas auto racing

Kurt Busch is taking a test drive in the Fox Sports broadcast booth at Saturday’s Truck Series playoff race at Martinsville, Virginia. Busch, a challenger for the NASCAR Cup Series championship, suggested he’d like to get into broadcasting after he retires from driving. Brother Kyle Busch shared Halloween memories of growing up in Las Vegas. Kyle Busch California driver Jeremy Doss passed one driver on the final lap and held off another to avenge last year’s last-lap defeat to Derek Thorn in the Senator’s Cup Fall Classic at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. There’s a new book about Craig Breedlove in which the land speed king recalls surviving a 675-mph crash in Black Rock Desert north of Reno and having a song written about him by the Beach Boys. It’s called: “Ultimate Speed: The Fast Life and Extreme Cars of Racing Legend Craig Breedlove.”

Busch Brothers Talk Las Vegas Racing
 
Busch Brothers Talk Las Vegas Racing

Kyle and Kurt Busch talk about racing and Las Vegas before the South Point 400 weekend.

NASCAR’s Busch Brothers ready for South Point 400
 
NASCAR’s Busch Brothers ready for South Point 400

Brothers Kyle and Kurt Busch of Las Vegas discuss opening the NASCAR playoffs on their home track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway during playoffs media day at the South Point Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Sept. 13, 2018. (Ron Kantowski/Las Vegas Review-Journal).

Spencer Gallagher finishes strong at Daytona
 
Spencer Gallagher finishes strong at Daytona

With two laps to go, Las Vegas drivers Kurt Busch and Brendan Gaughan were running in the lead pack at the Daytona 500 Both were eliminated from contention by a late crash That left Spencer Gallagher as the highest finishing Las Vegas driver at Daytona Speedway Gallagher started fourth and finished sixth in Saturday’s Xfinity Series race It was his best career finish in the Xfinity Series

Will this be Kyle Busch’s year at Daytona 500?
 
Will this be Kyle Busch’s year at Daytona 500?

Last year Kurt Busch of Las Vegas finally won the Daytona 500 This year, younger brother Kyle hopes it will be his turn Kyle Busch is winless in the Great American Race in 12 starts The 2015 Cup Series champ has only three top finishes in the Daytona 500 Busch crashed out of last year’s race

Busch brothers look back at 2017
 
Busch brothers look back at 2017

Kyle Busch and older brother, Kurt, discuss their 2017 NASCAR seasons in their hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 29, 2017. (Ron Kantowski/Las Vegas Review Journal)