The winners of the state’s latest annual Moose Permit Lottery included famed professional driver Kyle Busch, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife announced.
The late racing star, showing an address of Denver, North Carolina, won the right to hunt antlered moose this fall.
The state announced the moose kill winners over the weekend at Acton Fairgrounds, Busch being among 2,645 recipients of antlered permits.
Busch, who died unexpectedly last month, was a familiar face to racing fans in Maine, having competed several times at the Oxford Plains Speedway.
He raced in the Celebration of America 300 last July, competing in that race for a second year in a row, WMTW-TV’S Russ Reed reports.
“It’s always fun. Just an opportunity to kind of come back and run some super late model cars, always enjoy these types of cars and with a stout field of competitors up here at Oxford Plains Speedway,” he told WMTW last summer. “It always makes for a good, hard-fought race.”
Busch 15 years ago won Maine’s signature race, the Oxford 250.
He took part in the first Memorial Day Clash 200 last May.
Busch, a two-time Cup Series champ who won more races than anyone across NASCAR’s three national series, died a month ago.
He had suffered from severe pneumonia that progressed into sepsis. He was just 41 years old.
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