Kurt Busch
Kurt Busch
Kurt Thomas Buschis an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, driving the No. 41 Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing. He is a second-generation racing driver; his father, Tom, won several NASCAR-sanctioned events. He is the older brother of 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Kyle Busch...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth4 August 1978
CityLas Vegas, NV
CountryUnited States of America
I knew from the beginning he could be a strong racer, a force to be reckoned with. He's getting more and more comfortable.
Last year we saw (Tony) Stewart have trouble as well as (Jeremy) Mayfield and they never seemed to rebound after that, ... It's just the pace. In a lot of ways it's like a golf tournament. If you start off and you're four- or five-under and the other guys are waffling around with a bogey and a par, they're not gonna catch you. It's up to the leader to make those mistakes and we did have a big mistake at Atlanta with the motor blowing up. That took away our solid advantage, so when you have a bad race early on it's just that much more difficult to overcome later on.
For me, it would be like winning the Daytona 500.
He checked up on the straightaway. I had no place else to go.
I really felt like we were really in contention. I understand you have to run for a championship, but when we come to Vegas, it feels like the Daytona 500.
I really felt like we were really in contention, ... I understand you have to run for a championship, but when we come to Vegas, it feels like the Daytona 500.
Last year in the spring it was an alternator belt that broke when we were leading that took us out of contention, and then in the fall last year we were leading at the end before fuel strategy cost us the win. But Richmond is a terrific racetrack.
It's a privilege to take part in such a worthy cause. The people of that region need our help, and everyone at Crown Royal Championship Racing recognizes the urgency to do whatever we can to assist in the relief efforts.
Don't just do it. You have to make an impact and tell them you learned some things and that you're going to make sure that doesn't happen again.
It was like the ghost of racing past. I knew it was going to come down to that. ... I can't believe I lost, but Mark is the guy to beat when you're racing IROC.
It feels like we've had about anything that can go wrong happen at Richmond,
I can just feel the team has a stronger intensity level. All of us went out to the start-finish line at Richmond and kissed that start-finish line and kissed that race track . . . We all felt very complete by that win and now we want some more.
It's something that's very special to win a championship. We want to do something even more special -- win a back-to-back championship. We're definitely putting the pressure on ourselves to do it.
That's the decision they made and I will live with it.