NASCAR Sprint Cup Series star Kyle Busch is accustomed to coming out of Turn 4 at Texas Motor Speedway with the crowd roaring on the frontstretch, but on Friday it was a completely different electric atmosphere. Busch came out of Turn 4 in a helicopter for his grand entrance in front of more than 4,500 screaming elementary school students and joined the 11 local-area schools to crown the champions of Texas Motor's Speedway's "Speeding To Read" educational program. The Frontstretch Division consisting of Argyle/Lantana's E.P. Rayzor, Trophy Club's Samuel Beck and Keller's Kay Granger elementary schools led the way by combining to read 445,746 books of the overall total.* Busch, the defending champion of Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Duck Commander 500 as well as tonight's O'Reilly Auto Parts 300 Nationwide Series race, enjoyed a Q&A with the students, handed out trophies and posed for photos with the winners and sign plenty of the students' "Speeding To Read" t-shirts as a memento of their special day.
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