AVONDALE, Ariz. – The Big Three are in the final four.
Fittingly, the NASCAR Cup Series’ three most dominant figures of 2018 are among the four drivers who are eligible for the championship in next Sunday’s season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. – each looking for a second title – will have the chance to show who is truly the best, although Joey Logano could play spoiler to the season’s script. Logano earned his championship bid by winning at Martinsville Speedway on Oct. 28 in the first race of the next-to-last round of the playoffs.
But it is Busch who heads to Florida fresh off a victory, having won for the eighth time this year by taking the checkered flag Sunday at ISM Raceway near Phoenix as the eight-driver playoff field was sliced in half.
Busch, the 2015 Cup Series champion, shares the season lead for victories with Harvick, who had won the Sunday before at Texas Motor Speedway but had his automatic title bid wiped out last week when NASCAR discovered an illegal spoiler on the 2014 season champion’s Stewart-Haas Racing No. 4 Ford.