Kyle Busch wins a wreck-filled Budweiser Shootout Reporting from Daytona Beach, Florida - The big bang is back in NASCAR. Boys bunched together, three and four wide, wrecking and racing. NASCAR officials may have overreached trying to squash tandem racing, instead creating another monster: reducing Cup drivers to crash-test dummies. Jeff Gordon's upside-down spin during Saturday's Budweiser Shootout was the lasting snapshot of a wild night that ended in another wild moment: Kyle Busch edging Tony Stewart for the victory, jumping him on the inside on the closing lap on a slingshot move. The Shootout - a 75-lap exhibition event kicking off the 2012 NASCAR schedule - delivered the goods for fans who yearned for the old days of the bump-and-grind of the restrictor-plate tracks. Forget that tandem-racing nonsense that most fans detested. Old-school racing is back, just in time for the Daytona 500 on Feb. 26. "Oh, yes, it is going to be chaotic," said Paul Menard, who was involved in the first "Big One" of the season. It is going to be exciting, for sure. We have to figure out if we want to just ride around or not because it is a big, big chance you are going to wreck. We don't like to wreck; they don't pay many points back in 43rd. Gordon was definitely going for the win when he got into the left rear panel of Busch's car on the next-to-last lap, sending Gordon's Chevrolet flipping three times before the car came to a stop, upside down. "Pretty wild and crazy way to get it all started," Gordon said. The difference now is we're still bump drafting, but we're doing it in packs. Cars are moving around a lot. You have to be real patient when you push and where you push. Gordon got out of the car and was OK. Just as amazing, Busch was able to make his second stupendous save of the night - he got sideways twice - hanging around long enough to chase down Stewart in the final seconds to win by .013 second, making it the closest finish in the history of the Shootout. "Amazing race," Busch said. It's fun to drive when I wasn't getting turned around. Glad to see the pack back like that ... This is a lot more fun than the two-car stuff was. ... At least this is better than having to stare at the back of a spoiler for 500 miles," Stewart said. We had more control as drivers today. It's the Bud Shootout. Everybody pushes the envelope. It didn't take long for the boys to get into the first big bump of the season: Nine cars were involved in a scrum on the 10th lap. Three drivers - Michael Waltrip, David Ragan and Menard - got the worst of it, as the wreck knocked their cars out of the race. "Even the greatest drivers in the world run out of room," Waltrip said. The second Big One involved six drivers, including Martin Truex, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kevin Harvick and Matt Kenseth, with 20 laps to go. The incident was triggered when Marcos Ambrose got into Joey Lagano's car and turned him around. "It's honestly back to what we used to have," McMurray said. And honestly, that's exactly what NASCAR wanted. Responding to complaints from the majority of fans, NASCAR officials made significant modifications to the cars in an effort to curb the tandem or "lovebug" style of racing. The plan, which came to fruition Saturday night, was to return to the traditional cluster of cars on the restrictor-plate tracks at Daytona and Talladega, Alabama. "This kind of racing gets your attention," Carl Edwards said.