Less is more for Busch, plus other notes from the weekend

NEWTON, Iowa -- Now that Kyle Busch has won on a road course after driving from the back to the front in Sunday's contest at Infineon Raceway, he's regained his status as NASCAR's dominant driver this season.

And he may have gotten to victory lane by doing less, rather than more.

After two straight weeks of competing in all three of NASCAR's divisions, including three races in three states in three days two weeks ago at Texas, Nashville and Pocono, Busch skipped the trip to Milwaukee for Friday night's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race and Saturday night's Nationwide Series contest.

Focusing on the Cup race instead of trying to be "Mr. Everything" allowed Busch to regain his form as the best driver in NASCAR

"Pocono was bad, and I don't think I've ever really run that great, and I'm not making excuses, but I think I've got a fourth place finish there and the rest are in the teens or 20s," Busch said. "Last weekend we went fourth to sixth all day, bided our time and led some laps in the beginning there, got up as high as second and faded and stuff. We ran OK. We just fell behind a little bit on fuel strategy and finished 13th. It was going to be a good points day and didn't turn out as well as we wanted."

Busch stuck to what Busch does the best and that pleased his boss, Joe Gibbs Racing president J.D. Gibbs

"From our standpoint, I still feel the same way," Gibbs said. "This weekend would have been harder. Milwaukee is hard. The other ones to me aren't really anything out of the ordinary. He's been doing it his whole life and I don't really worry. This one was a big drain and he had to go a long ways. I don't attribute it to that, but obviously if we go in the future and have more issues, we'll revisit that. I think he can run long and hard. He's still young and strong."

Busch will continue to compete in the truck series and Nationwide races this season, but he was not going to run for the championship in all three divisions once he realized that not even a driver with his talent can withstand such a schedule.

And with Busch having a clearer focus on the Sprint Cup title, that's bad news for the rest of his competitors during the "Summer Stretch" of NASCAR's season.

Entering Sunday's road course race, only six active drivers had won at Infineon or Watkins Glen International, and Busch wasn't one of them. He can now check off "a road course victory" on his list of Sprint Cup goals.