Report: Kyle Busch in another incident

By Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

KANSAS CITY, Kan.

NASCAR is looking into reports of an altercation between team owner Richard Childress and owner/driver Kyle Busch, NASCAR officials confirmed Saturday.

Details were sketchy, but the altercation reportedly occurred after Saturday‚ös Camping World Truck Series race at Kansas Speedway, won by Clint Bowyer, who drives for Childress in the Sprint Cup Series.

Pit reporter Ray Dunlap posted the following on his twitter account after the race: “Hot news from the track. Grandpa Childress put a whipping on Kyle Busch in the truck garage. Look for big sun glasses on kubu sun.”

(Dunlap actually meant “KyBu,” the twitter shorthand for Kyle Busch. “KuBu” refers to brother Kurt Busch.)

Busch finished sixth in his No. 18 Toyota after racing hard for fifth against RCR driver Joey Coulter, who passed Busch for the position on the final lap. After the checkered flag, Busch drove up beside Coulter and bumped the No. 22 truck.

Busch is on probation for all NASCAR events through June 15, the result of a post-race, pit-road confrontation with Kevin Harvick at Darlington.

SPRINT cup QUALIFYING

Sometimes it pays to be slow on Friday.

That’s especially true when Sprint Cup qualifying is on Saturday morning, as Kurt Busch proved at Kansas Speedway, where he parlayed an early draw into a pole-winning run.

The only driver with a sub-31-second lap, Busch sped around the 1.5-mile speedway at 174.752 mph (30.901 seconds) to edge Juan Pablo Montoya (174.154 mph) for the top starting spot in today’s STP 400.

The Coors Light pole award was Busch’s first of the season and the 13th of his career.