Busch, Bodine feuding after trucks race

ATLANTA - Don't expect Kyle Busch and Todd Bodine to be hanging out at dinner anytime soon.

The two have developed a compelling rivalry in the NASCAR Trucks Series, which boiled over again during the most recent race at Kentucky Motor Speedway.

Bodine accused Busch of "driving dirty" when he got into Bodine's rear quarterpanel, causing a spin. Busch took issue with those comments, confronting Bodine before they left Kentucky and making his case after arriving at Atlanta Motor Speedway for last night's Sprint Cup race.

"It was just a matter of hard racing," Busch said. "If he doesn't want me to race him that hard, he ought to give me room in the turn."

Busch insisted that he's not a dirty driver.

"I feel like I'm a hard racer, an aggressive one," Busch said. "I wouldn't say I'm dirty. Dirty is when you run into the back of somebody on the straightaway and put them into the fence."

Bodine still won the truck race, but that didn't cause him to soften his stance on Busch's tactics.

"I've always had a lot of respect for Kyle. Slowly but surely I'm losing it," Bodine said.

Atlanta Motor Speedway has been celebrating its 50th anniversary, including a ceremony Sunday attended by 1960 NASCAR champion Rex White, who lives in nearby Fayetteville.

Also on hand was Michael Greer, who was 8 years old when he attended the inaugural Dixie 300 on July 31, 1960.

"We sat in the lower rows, and the grit, the grime, the noise is what sticks out most in my mind," Greer recalled.

Warren Buffett, one of the country's richest people, was a guest of car owner Joe Gibbs. After being introduced at the driver meeting, Buffett joked, "I understand these guys can do pit stops in 12-plus seconds. I'm going to see what we can do to get it under 11." ... Gibbs delivered the invocation before the race.