Philadelphia, PA (Best E Casino) - While NASCAR's premier race lost a lot of its glamour after a lap 17 crash took out half of the top-12 including stars Dale Earnhardt Jr., Tony Stewart, Kevin Harvick, Clint Bowyer and Kasey Kahne, this weekend may have shown what the NASCAR world has to look forward to over the next 10 years or more.

Kyle Busch dominated the Best Buy 400 for his fourth win of the season, and 10th if you combine his wins in the Nationwide and Craftsman Series. Busch has been the best driver on the track this season and watching him slice through traffic is worth the price of admission.

Busch now leads the Sprint Cup Series by 142 points and can coast into the "Chase for the Sprint Cup." Of course, those who have seen him race know he will never coast, as Busch drives his car at 110 percent at all times. He is also second in the Nationwide standings and has a great shot at becoming the first driver to win NASCAR's two top series in the same season. And, despite skipping two truck races, Busch is 16th in the truck standings with two wins.

The younger brother of 2004 Sprint Cup Series champion Kurt Busch may still be immature off the track, but on the track, he has become a force. He can drive a tight race car as well as anyone, and he is currently better than anyone else at driving a loose machine. The combination of Busch's driving ability and Toyota's horsepower looks to be too much for the other teams.

But Kyle Busch's dominance of the Sprint Cup Series was not the only thing we saw this weekend.

After four years of hype, we finally got to see Joey Logano against real competition on Saturday. The youngster who at 17-years-old was called the "real deal" by none other than Mark Martin, got behind the wheel of a Nationwide car for the first time this weekend.

He was forced to wait because of NASCAR's 18-year-old age requirement to drive in one of its national series. Logano turned 18 on May 24th, and Joe Gibbs Racing immediately put him behind the wheel of the No.20 Toyota. That put even more pressure on the young phenom, since that car and team had already won six times this season with three different drivers (Stewart, Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin).

Logano qualified a solid ninth and then rebounded from a pit-road incident to finish a very good sixth. The only drivers ahead of him were named Hamlin, Carl Edwards, David Stremme, David Reutimann and Greg Biffle - all Sprint Cup veterans. He beat the likes of series points leader Clint Bowyer, Coca-Cola 600 winner Kasey Kahne, Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti, Harvick and the aforementioned Kyle Busch.

"It ain't much in my book," said Logano who is used to winning wherever he has driven. "I'm not going to be happy unless I win. I'm looking forward to going to Nashville. Somewhere I've been before."

However, to most of us, it was a very good run. He should continue to improve, and based on his past history, Logano should be ready for the Sprint Cup Series just about the time that Stewart's contract is up with Joe Gibbs Racing. A coincidence? Probably not.

And in the truck race, we saw a first-time winner for the third consecutive week. But this time was something special. In just his sixth time behind the wheel of a truck, Scott Speed won convincingly. The 25-year-old California native, known mostly for a failed Formula One campaign with Toro Rosso, has taken to NASCAR racing very quickly.

Jumping from open-wheel racing to NASCAR's heavy machines is not easy, as evidenced by how Franchitti, Sam Hornish Jr., Patrick Carpentier and former World Champion Jacques Villeneuve have struggled, but Speed is adapting at a fast pace.

Speed recorded a top-10 in just his second outing, he won an ARCA race in April of this year and then on Friday won the AAA Insurance Craftsman Truck event at the tough Dover International Speedway. Although he had never raced on the "Monster Mile," he beat the best the series had to offer. The top-five included series champions Jack Sprague, Ron Hornaday Jr. and Travis Kvapil.

"I'm just having an awesome time trying to learn this sport," said Speed. "Every time I go out on the track, I feel I come away with a lot of knowledge."

Kyle Busch, Logano and Speed...the future of NASCAR has arrived.