Intimidator Spirit Lives In Kyle Busch, Not Dale Earnhardt Jr.

The worst thing Kyle Busch did Saturday night after tangling with Dale Earnhardt Jr. late in the Sprint Cup Series Dan Lowry 400 was apologize for what happened.

Certainly, had it been Dale Earnhardt Sr. behind the wheel of the No. 18 car Saturday, there wouldn't have been any sort of apologizing for what happened.

It's a sort of twisted irony that comes to the surface when examining just what took place Saturday night at Richmond International Raceway between Busch and Earnhardt Jr.

The spirit that earned Dale Earnhardt Sr. the moniker "The Intimidator" lives not in his namesake son, though that spirit does clearly burn deeply in the competitive drive of Busch.