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 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.
If you think I'm good, wait until you see my little brother, ... He's an even better race car driver than I am.
If you're running in the top-five during the race, usually you're single file, not three-wide pack, that's something you try to position yourself for. If you're stuck in the middle there's not much you can do. You don't want to get caught up in a wreck, so you have to decide if you want to go forward or if you want to hang out in the back and wait for a pit stop to jumble up the field. Qualifying is important, but, if you qualify up front, you can get shuffled to the back if you get into the wrong draft. We'll see how it shakes up. We have a good car. It's the car we ran seventh here earlier this year so I'm excited to bring it back.
He's a quick study. Anytime I get to finish in front of him, I have to jab him and let him know.
I hope we can do two in a row. It would be great to be able to start out like that.
I appreciate all that Jack Roush and the team has done for me and the professionalism shown in reaching an agreement with me on the release, ... I am excited about what lies ahead.
That's the decision they made and I will live with it.
It's a good and a bad thing we're here testing at Richmond. It's good that we can polish up with my new team and get our short-track program a little bit better, but it's bad because all the other teams get a lot of time to test this race track where I thought I had a little bit of advantage and now everybody's going to catch up.
It's a great thing that I have going with the NASCAR Cup car right now.
It's mind games, and he's already starting too early.
Everybody wants to win Daytona. There's only one guy that's happy when we leave and that's the winner. California is really where the season starts.
It's been great. I'm with new people around me, a new team. We're going out to dinner tonight, 18 of us.
It's just the same old deal, you go race your car,