CAROL FITZGERALD
YAHOOSPORTS.COM

Racing legend Junior Johnson, who won fifty races as a driver and six Championships as an owner, gets this kind of thing fairly regularly. In 2008, a reporter for ESPN asked him to choose between Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch, and Carl Edwards. Johnson had three championships, Carl had a great season and the cover of Men’s Fitness, and Kyle had 8 Cup wins that season, and an attitude.

And the winner was… drumroll please… Kyle Busch. (Insert record-scratch sound effect here.) “I like his hell-bent driving style,” Johnson was quoted as saying. “He’s going to do what he needs to do. You’ve just got to polish him a little.” (A little?)

Asked a similar question just a few days ago, Junior Johnson would choose … Tony Stewart. Not four-time champion Jimmie Johnson.

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