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Busch Brothers Team up with Monster Energy in Nationwide Series
MOORESVILLE, N.C. – Kyle Busch Motorsports (KBM) announced today that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Monster Energy Company as primary sponsor of the team’s No. 54 Monster Energy Camry in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Team owner Kyle Busch, the all-time race winning driver in the history of the NASCAR Nationwide Series, will share driving duties with his brother Kurt Busch, the 2004 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion. Kyle will drive the season-opening race at … Read entire article »
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Tag Heuer Enters Multi-race Sponsorship with Kurt Busch and Phoenix Racing
WESTON, Fla. – TAG Heuer Eyewear announced today that it has entered into a multi-race sponsorship agreement with NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Kurt Busch and Phoenix Racing. Busch, who will drive the No. 51 Chevrolet for Phoenix Racing in the entire 2012 Sprint Cup season, has a personal services agreement with the eyewear company. TAG Heuer Eyewear will be featured as the primary sponsor on the No. 51 Chevrolet for the Feb. 18 Budweiser Shootout … Read entire article »
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Kurt Busch Finds a Home at Phoenix Racing
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – “I just want to get back to having fun in the racecar.” Those were the words spoken by Kurt Busch just a few days after the season-ending NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards Banquet in Las Vegas. Today, the 2004 Sprint Cup champion is well on his way toward that simple goal as he’s teamed with Phoenix Racing to run the full 2012 Sprint Cup schedule. “I’m very happy to join Phoenix Racing and after … Read entire article »
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Kurt Busch and Roger Penske “Mutually Agree” to Part Ways
In the high stakes, high finance, expensive lawyers world that is NASCAR, top level drivers don’t get fired, they mutually agree with team owners that it’s time to part ways. In a not unexpected move, Penske Racing announced today that it had reached a mutual agreement with 2004 Cup champion driver Kurt Busch to end its driver/race team relationship, effective immediately. The team will evaluate its options for the driver of the No. 22 … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
50,000 Consequences for Busch’s Actions at Homestead-Miami
Daytona Beach – Kurt Busch was informed today that actions have consequences. Especially “actions detrimental to stock car racing”. In his case, the actions of flipping someone off and then swearing at ESPN report Dr Jerry Punch at Homestead-Miami Speedway last weekend cost him $50,000. In issuing the penalty, NASCAR cited Kurt Busch’s “poor judgment in making an inappropriate hand gesture” when he drove his car into the garage early in the race after it experienced … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Kurt Busch issues apology after Homestead tirade is caught on video
After a video (below) appeared on the internet with Penske Racing driver Kurt Busch ripping into Dr. Jerry Punch at Homestead Speedway, Busch once more issued another apology statement. “Unfortunately, our result in the season-ending race at Homestead on Sunday was not what we had hoped for as a team. In my frustration with the loss of my transmission early in the race, I let my emotions get the better of me. I regret … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup, video
Kurt Busch Making His 400th Career Start This Weekend
HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Shell-Pennzoil Dodge Charger driver Kurt Busch will be making his 400th career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start in Sunday’s Ford 400 season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. To say that the 2004 series champ has a lot on the line in the final race weekend on the 2011 season would be a huge understatement. “There is still a lot of unfinished business we need to take care of out there, that’s for sure,” … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
For Kurt Busch the smallest track offers the biggest challenge
MARTINSVILLE, Va. – Kurt Busch will be competing in his 23rd career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on the demanding paper-clip shaped .526-mile Martinsville Speedway in Sunday’s TUMS Bring It On 500. With more than 11 season’s worth of racing experience there, the 2004 series champion is quick to point out that the circuit’s smallest track presents one of his biggest hurdles. “The most challenging thing for me is everything,” said Busch, who enters Martinsville … Read entire article »
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Kurt Busch still looking for first points paying restrictor-plate win
TALLADEGA, Ala. – Sunday’s Good Sam RV Parks & Resorts 500 at Talladega Superspeedway will be Shell-Pennzoil Dodge driver Kurt Busch’s 44th career NASCAR points-paying restrictor-plate race and he is still looking for his first victory in this thrilling brand of competition. “People look back at the great Speed Weeks 2011 we had in Daytona back in February and they say, ‘but he did win – I saw that No. 22 Shell-Pennzoil Dodge in Victory Lane … Read entire article »
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