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
The race is definitely a high-intensity race. You have to stay patient. I've got one win there, but many tough finishes. I hope we're able to stay out of trouble in the pits and put together a good finish.
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.
Now we have to go and attack each race for a win. We have to go to Dover and expect to win and try and build our points back up.
I said it earlier this year, I think you can have one 'mulligan' (and still win the championship). But this has been two for (Kurt) Busch, I don't think he can still win the championship.
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.
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.
For me, it would be like winning the Daytona 500.
I wouldn't say it came easy, but I understood how to win and I determined how I could do it.
You really don't put a value on your first win, it is priceless no matter where you are.
This was a great momentum-builder, ... Look out, Kurt Busch is running again. This just propels you right into the Chase.
Believe it or not, when practice begins on Thursday morning at Texas Motor Speedway, that will be the first time I've ever even sat in a Grand National car.
With the asphalt here being so old, it's going to be hard to see what it does, but there are going to be some shadows. The way we're going to be racing at night the corners might look the same to the eye, but we're going to have to adjust to it as we go.
When you're a team that's won a championship, people look at you and how you did it and what your approach could be.
We just missed the handle on it again. It was just way too loose off the corners.