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MCREYNOLDS: Gibbs Darlington Effort Mixed

NASCAR was blessed to have awesome weather on Saturday night at Darlington Raceway. I know we had been watching the forecast all week and all day, I know we were nervous that rain might come, but the weather just couldn't have been any better. The crowd we had here for the NASCAR Sprint Cup race was one of the best I have seen at Darlington in a long, long time.I think as much as people were turned off a few years ago when NASCAR moved the Southern 500 away from Labor Day weekend and to the spring, I think now we're starting to see a little bit of flavor come back to the race; people are truly looking at this as a traditional weekend.It didn't take long to realize on Saturday, though, that if you were going to win this race, you were going to have to beat Kyle Busch.His car was good on restarts, his crew was flawless, he was good when the race was in daylight, he was good when it was in twilight and it just looked like nothing could beat him. Different drivers started making runs at hi...

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