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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 »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
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 »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Kurt Busch holds off Johnson for Dover Cup win
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service DOVER, Del.—Thank you, Kurt Busch said, after screw-ups by Jimmie Johnson and Carl Edwards put Busch in position to win Sunday’s AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway. While Busch celebrated his second victory of the season and the 24th of his career in victory lane at the Monster Mile, runner-up Johnson and third-place Edwards sat in the nearby media center castigating themselves in the postrace news conference. Johnson stumbled on the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, Sprint Cup
Martin Truex Jr. finds success at Dover with pole run
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service DOVER, Del. – Martin Truex Jr. returned to the site of his only NASCAR Sprint Cup victory and found success again Saturday afternoon, winning the pole for Sunday’s AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway. Truex, who claimed his first Coors Light pole award of the season and the sixth of his career, will start the third race in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup next to Kurt Busch, the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
Kurt Busch Hoping for a Solid Performance at Dover
DOVER, Del. – Shell-Pennzoil Dodge driver Kurt Busch returns to Dover International Speedway for this weekend’s “AAA 400” NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race hoping a recent trend continues for his Steve Addington-led “Double Deuce” Penske Team. The likelihood of that occurring is extremely high, especially considering that Dover was the site of Busch’s best finish of the 10 Chase races last season. “It was kind of strange how things shook out in last year’s Chase,” offered … Read entire article »
Filed under: Sprint Cup
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