Kyle Busch, the driver of the #18 M&M’s Flavor Vote Toyota, stands on the grid during qualifying for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on April 28, 2018, in Talladega, Alabama. Photo – Sean Gardner/Getty Images

With the unpredictable nature and high stakes racing that innately exists at NASCAR’s biggest track, Talladega (Alabama) Superspeedway, there is always a lot that goes into hoisting a trophy there.

For Kyle Busch, racing to his second Talladega win in Sunday’s GEICO 500 (2 p.m., FOX, MRN, SiriusXM Radio) will not just be a sense of season accomplishment – it would mark his fourth consecutive 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race win in the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Toyota and absolutely worthy for the sport’s all-time record books.

Only one other driver in the field this weekend – seven-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson – has accomplished the four-peat. He won four straight races in 2007. It’s happened only 12 times in the sport’s history. And five times the driver to win four straight races did go on to capture the Cup title that season. Johnson being the most recent.

None of the other eight Modern Era drivers that have won four consecutive races, have had Talladega in that span of victory, however.

“That one’s never really always in the driver’s hands,’’ Busch acknowledged of Talladega. “It’s kind of always in fate’s hands. We’ll just take what we can get this weekend at Talladega and see where it gets us.”

Busch acknowledged the unpredictability of competing in the tight packs that characterize restrictor-plate racing on the series’ largest track (2.66-miles). The ‘Big One’ is a common occurrence when one driver’s ‘slip-up’ involves crashing out multiple cars. Being in the right place at the right time is half-strategy and half-luck.

“At Talladega, the physical demand isn’t that big of deal,’’ Busch said. “You can run around there all day long and not break a sweat, really. Once you get down into the nitty-gritty of the race and try to play the chess game at the end of the race, you’ve got to really pick and choose your spots and think all the time if you go here and team up with this guy.

“It really wears on you a little bit, mentally. I would say Talladega is 80 percent mental and 20 percent physical, while most other non-restrictor-plate races are 80 percent physical and 20 percent mental. We’re hoping to be in position with our M&M’S Flavor Vote Camry Sunday to give it another shot at the win.”

Busch won the spring race at Talladega in 2007 and has finishes of second and third in the last two years, respectively.