Driver even made T-shirt for his fans

Everything’s great as far as Kyle Busch is concerned.

That’s what the Las Vegas racer said — repeatedly — after emerging from the NASCAR hauler at Phoenix last weekend. Stock car racing officials gave Busch and Joey Logano a talking to after they tangled in their cars on the last lap of the Kobalt 400 on March 12 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, then tangled with their fists on pit road. Cooler heads did not prevail.

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And so the two were put on double secret NASCAR probation or whatever, though they were not fined.

Busch, taking his cue from Marshawn Lynch at the Super Bowl, said: “Everything’s great. Looking forward to getting back in my race car,” to five consecutive questions from the media.

Every time he spoke on camera at Phoenix, he prefaced his remarks by saying, “Everything’s great …”

So now you can get an “EVERYTHING IS GREAT” T-shirt.

They cost $22 — which just so happens to be Joey Logano’s car number — and can be ordered through the driver’s website, rowdybusch.com.

Proceeds will be turned over to the Kyle Busch Foundation, where Everything is Great. SHRINKING SPEEDWAYS

After word got out that Las Vegas Motor Speedway was considering removing additional grandstands to reduce seating capacity from 104,000 to about 80,000 for NASCAR races, the Charlotte Observer reported sister tracks under the Speedway Motorsports Inc. umbrella soon might undergo similar reductions.

Grandstands at Charlotte, Atlanta, Kentucky and New Hampshire are said to be on the chopping block in what SMI is calling a “re-purposing” project.

From SMI’s securities filing: “Seat removal and alternative use of desirable advertising space help improve pricing power, and provide increased marketing appeal from fuller grandstands because those areas are frequently displayed during television broadcasts, in photos, and are viewable by large numbers of fans attending our speedways.”

In other words, people just aren’t going to NASCAR races like they used to, no matter how often the rules are changed to make the races more interesting. BULLRING BECKONS

Eight classes of cars, headlined by the NASCAR Super Late Models, will