Kyle Busch's new lucky helmet

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A thief stole Kyle Busch's racing helmet the Friday night before the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway.
A reporter asked him about what happened in the infield at Dover after winning Sunday's Cup race, his series-leading fourth of the year.
"Friday night somebody snuck in the garage area with the cleanup crew and rattled the back doors of the trailer open, dumped their beer and ice and everything in the trailer, went up into the lounge, stole my helmet," said Busch, driver of the No. 18 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. "There had been ‑‑ I don't know, somebody saw it happen, I guess, they told security guards outside. They were checking everybody that was leaving the race car. They found him, confiscated him, brought the helmet back. That's all I know pretty much."
At first, Busch said it wasn't that big of a deal that someone stole his helmet. He said it wasn't a lucky helmet or anything. The reason he had that particular helmet for the Dover race was because it was orange. It matched the color scheme of the Combos paint scheme on his car for the Dover race.
"We used it at Atlanta," Busch said. "Used it again here (Sunday) because it was orange. We didn't have an orange Combos helmet so we had to deal with what we had."
Joe Gibbs, owner of the three-car Cup team, remembered that Busch won the race at Atlanta.
"On second thought, it might be a lucky helmet," Gibbs said.
"Might be now, I guess," Busch replied.
Gibbs wanted to make sure Busch still had the helmet after realizing he was wearing it for two of his four Cup wins this year.
"We got it," Busch said. "We're going to be putting the reins on that puppy."

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