Kyle Busch
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Kyle Busch
Kyle Thomas Buschis an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner. He currently drives the No. 18 Toyota Camry in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the No. 18 Camry in the Xfinity Series for Joe Gibbs Racing. He also owns Kyle Busch Motorsports, which runs multiple trucks in the Camping World Truck Series. Busch is the 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series champion and the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion...
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth2 May 1985
CityLas Vegas, NV
decided foot last matter tires
We decided we were going to get tires no matter what, ... On that last lap, I just had to keep my foot in it.
chase hard matter race trying
I know Jimmie is a chase driver, but it doesn't much matter to me, I'm trying to race as hard as I can to win,
crushed weird win
It's weird that this is where my first win would come. I was crushed by that 2001 ruling. But this makes up for it.
accustomed toughest tracks
Here at Dover, this is one of the toughest tracks that I have been able to get accustomed to,
stripe wait yellow
No, I still have that yellow stripe on. You have got to wait to take that off.
below call front judgment ran tried yellow
It was a judgment call by NASCAR, and there's nothing we can do about it now. I tried getting down in front of him, but I ran him below the yellow line, I guess.
busier heck
It's all a heck of a lot busier than I expected.
learn
It's been one of those years where you just try to keep going and learn on what you need to do to make yourself better. You just have to keep going.
gives home run town
Being able to run that well in our home town gives me a lot of pride.
kurt people race silly snow statement talk texas weather win
You talk like Kurt and I are wrecking people intentionally. That's ludicrous! That's absurd! That statement is about as silly as someone celebrating a race win in 80-degree weather in Texas with a snow angel.
boos brothers climbing close gets gordon jeff steadily whether
It's not whether you are getting boos or cheers, it's who gets the most noise. Right now it's close between Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr., but the Busch brothers are steadily climbing that rope.
coming daytona good pit reason road soon tires
I don't know what it is about me being able to come in on pit road on old tires here at Daytona and Talladega. For some reason I'm pretty good at coming into pit road, but then as soon as I get down into my stall, I get in there a little too hot.
along both civil conversation decided good last move race rest talked week
We talked a little bit. It was a good conversation. A civil one. We just talked about what I aggravated him with last week and we both decided to move along and see how we can race the rest of the year.
along near pulls whenever
Whenever you're near Junior's car, you go faster. He just pulls you along in the draft.