NASCAR puts Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards on probation

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) – NASCAR placed Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards on probation Wednesday for the next six Sprint Cup Series races, the result of their on-track incident last weekend at the end of the race at Bristol Motor Speedway.

During the cooldown lap after Edwards' Ford took the checkered flag for Roush Fenway Racing, Busch drove alongside Edwards and bumped his car. Edwards responded by driving the nose of his car into the right side of Busch's Toyota, spinning him out.

The postrace incident was apparently a reaction to Edwards nudging Busch aside with 30 laps to go Saturday night. Busch had led the previous 415 laps.

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Fantasy Report: Sharpie 500

Are you looking forward to watching Bristol under the lights Saturday night? It's one of my favorites ... at least the restarts. This race gets strung out pretty fast which can be a little boring at times but there's also a lot of beatin' and bangin' so it doesn't stay green for long. If you're like me and you're getting down to the last few starts for particular drivers this race could hurt your points standings if you take too many risks. More on that in a moment ... onto the picks:

Brandon’s picks:
Carl Edwards✔, Kurt Busch, Greg Biffle✔, David Ragan, Kasey Kahne✔, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Aric Almirola and David Reutimann✔.

Erik’s picks:
Jimmie Johnson✔, Carl Edwards, Kyle Busch✔, Kasey Kahne✔, Jamie McMurray, Greg Biffle, Travis Kvapil✔ and Scott Riggs.

Anybody's guess: Let's be honest — any Cup Series race is up for grabs by almost any driver and Bristol is one of best examples for races that can go in any direction. This is problematic for Fantasy players. Consider this: 78 of 95 races at Bristol have been won from a top-10 starting position but the deepest in the field that a Bristol race winner has started was 38th, by Elliott Sadler in 2001. Richard Childress and Jack Roush have more wins here than any other owners with 9 apiece so you can't go wrong with any of their teams. With that being said, I'm going to have a hard time not putting Edwards and Biffle in for sure this weekend.

Play it safe: As I alluded to earlier, you might want to sit on some of your drivers you've used a lot this year. I still have Junior on my roster just in case but since I can only use him one more time I hope to save him for Talladega. I'll only put him in if he's on the front row. Otherwise, I'll have to decide between Ragan, who has done great for me this year, or Kahne, who I've just been nominal with two times I've used him. I put Busch on my roster because he's won 5 races at Bristol in the past 10 years and this could be the weekend he lets loose.

Good luck!