Kyle Busch
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Kyle Thomas Busch (born May 2, 1985 in Las Vegas , Nevada ) is an American racing driver. He drives the Toyota Camry with starting number 18 for Joe Gibbs Racing in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and a Camry with starting number 54 for Joe Gibbs Racing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series . He is the driver with the most wins of all time in both the Xfinity Series and the Gander Outdoors Truck Series . He began his racing career with races on the so-called Bullring on the Las Vegas Motor Speedway . He is often nicknamed Shrub because he is the younger brother of Kurt Busch and a small bush in the United States is often referred to as "shrub". He has been in a relationship with Samantha Sarcinella since July 2007. Busch holds the record for most victories in both the Xfinity and the Truck Series.
NASCAR career
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
At the age of 16, Busch started in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series for Roush Racing as a substitute driver, after the team's two drivers were replaced in the middle of the 2001 season. In the six races that he started this season, Busch achieved two top 10 results.
Busch was the fastest driver in training for the 2001 Craftsman Truck Series race at California Speedway in Fontana when he was kicked off the track by CART officials for the American Racing Wheels 200 being part of a CART FedEx Championship Series race weekend, which was sponsored by the Marlboro cigarette brand . Marlboro expelled Busch from the garage business because of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement , according to which people under the age of 18 are not allowed to participate in events sponsored by tobacco companies.
Six weeks after this incident, NASCAR decided that drivers should be at least 18 years of age in order to prevent further incidents of this type after a tobacco manufacturer, Winston, also sponsored the top racing series. This regulation was changed again from 2007, so that drivers aged 16 and over can now participate in the Grand National and Whelen Modified Series.
After the regulation came into force, Busch moved from NASCAR to the American Speed Association , a racing series in the American Midwest. He finished the 2002 season eighth in the championship.
In 2004, Busch drove a race for Morgan-Dollar Motorsports in the number 47 Acxiom Chevrolet Silverado.
In the 2005 season, Busch returned to the Craftsman Truck Series for a few races, driving the Chevrolet for Billy Ballew Motorsports , with which he won the races at Lowe's Motor Speedway , Dover International Speedway and the autumn race at Atlanta Motor Speedway . All three races went over a distance of 200 miles. Busch became the youngest racing driver to win a Truck Series race at the age of 20 years and 19 days.
Busch repeated his victory at Lowe's Motor Speedway in the 2006 season in a special paint job that Rowdy Burns drove in Days of Thunder as a tribute to Bobby Hamilton , the stunt driver while the film was being made.
The first race of the 2008 season he won Busch finished in second, the next two races each. After finishing eighth in the North Carolina Education Lottery 200 , he finished second in Texas at Sam's Town 400 , the ninth race of the season . In Michigan he finished seventh, losing one place compared to the start. Busch's third win of the season was at the O'Reilly 200 in Bristol .
NASCAR Xfinity Series
When Busch celebrated his 18th birthday, he teamed up with Hendrick Motorsports to drive six races in the NASCAR Busch Series on selected tracks. He drove the Ditech.com Chevrolet Monte Carlo with the starting number 87. With it he achieved a second place in the race in May at Lowe's Motor Speedway. He also competed with Hendrick in selected races of the ARCA RE / MAX Series, of which he won the Kentucky Speedway and Nashville Superspeedway .
Kyle Busch drove his first full season in the Nationwide Series, known at the time as the Busch Series, in 2004 when he took over the car from Brian Vickers , who had previously switched to the Sprint Cup. In the second race in Rockingham he achieved a top 10 result, in the fifth race the first pole position and his first victory at the Funai 250 in May at the Richmond International Raceway . Busch won a total of five races in the 2004 season and finished the season as second in the championship after Martin Truex junior. At the same time, he secured the title of Rookie of the Year in the Busch Series. Further victories followed at the Carquest Auto Parts 300 at Lowe's Motor Speedway in 2005 and at the Sharpie Mini 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2006.
In the 2008 Nationwide season , he finished second from the first two races. His first win of the season was the O'Reilly 300 . The following week he won again at Bashas' Supermarkets 200 , as well as again the following week at Corona México 200 in Mexico City . His next win was the Carquest Auto Parts 300 at Lowe's Motor Speedway . In Dover, he was dropped to 28th place due to an accident. At the 14th race of the season in Nashville he was 20 after an accident. In Kentucky he was 30 after a self-inflicted spin. In the second Daytona race he was second behind his teammate Denny Hamlin . At Chicagoland Speedway , he was able to clinch his fifth win of the season with the Dollar General 300 , after having already had a 10-second lead on lap 155 of 200. He won the Kroger 200 after 197 of 200 leading laps. The Zippo 200 at the Watkins Glen International ended Busch behind Marcos Ambrose as the second, after he had temporarily fallen back by technical problems and ranked 24th In this race he drove for the first time in D'Hondt Motorsports car number 92 .
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series
In the 2004 season he drove a total of six races in the Carquest Chevrolet with starting number 84 for Hendrick Motorsports. His best finish of the season was a 24th place on California Speedway.
After the announcement that Terry Labonte would only drive selected races in the 2005 and 2006 seasons, Busch took over the number 5 Kellog's / Carquest Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports.
His first victory in a race in the Sprint Cup, which at that time was still called the Nextel Cup, came with the Sony HD 500 at California Speedway in Fontana in September 2005. Busch was the youngest driver to win the cup at an age of 20 years and 125 days (only four days younger than previous record holder Donald Thomas ) before Joey Logano broke this record in 2009. Two months later, in November 2005, he achieved another victory at the Phoenix International Raceway . This secured him the title of rookie of the year for the 2005 season.
2006
In the 2006 season, Busch landed a convincing win at the Lenox Industrial Tools 300 at New Hampshire International Speedway . He had another convincing appearance in the last race before the Chase for the Nextel Cup at Richmond International Raceway , which he finished second after having completed most of the laps of the race. He then went into the chase in fourth on points.
In the first race at the Chase, the second race of the season at New Hampshire International Speedway, Busch started in midfield and was involved in an incident on lap four in which he collided with Jeff Green in the number 66 car, causing the suspension of the car was damaged and after a spin it irreparably damaged the car. In the following race at Dover International Speedway, Busch started better than in New Hampshire, but was pulled out of the race due to an engine failure. The race at Kansas Speedway was also not without incident when he was too fast in the pit lane and finished the race in the top 10 in the second half.
The 2006 season ended Kyle Busch in tenth place with 448 points behind the champion Jimmie Johnson . Be experienced in prize money during the season amounted to 5,537,337 US dollars . As of June 2007, Kyle Busch is the youngest driver to have made it into the Chase for the Cup and a pole position in the Nextel Cup.
2007
At the 2007 Daytona 500 , Busch was involved in a mass crash fighting for third place in the last corner, while the two leaders Kevin Harvick and Mark Martin battled side by side for victory. Busch drove towards Martin and could have given him the necessary boost for victory, but instead he came into contact with Matt Kenseth, who was driving next to him, and the two collided, whereupon some drivers behind them like Clint Bowyer could no longer evade . As a result, Harvick won the race ahead of Martin, while Jeff Burton finished third.
Kyle Busch made history when he won the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway on March 25, 2007 as he became the first driver to win the Car of Tomorrow . It was also the 200th win for Hendrick Motorsports in NASCAR and the 600th for Chevrolet. For Chevrolet, this was also the first victory of a Chevrolet Impala since Wendell Scott's victory in Jacksonville in 1963.
On June 13, 2007, Kyle Busch announced that he would be leaving Hendrick Motorsports after the end of the 2007 season. Both sides were in talks on contract negotiations, but declared by mutual agreement that they would go their separate ways in the future. This announcement came the same day it was announced that Dale Earnhardt Jr. would replace Kyle Busch at Hendrick and take over the car.
2008
His crew chief in the 2008 season was Steve Addington. On March 9, 2008, he celebrated his first win at the Atlanta 500 in the Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota . Kyle Busch managed to achieve the first victory of a Toyota in the Cup and thus the first victory of a non-American manufacturer in 54 years ( Al Keller in a Jaguar). On April 27th, Busch secured his second win of the season at the Aaron's 499 on the Talladega Superspeedway , after finishing the race under yellow after a mass accident on the last lap. At the Crown Royal Presents The Dan Lowry 400 in Richmond , he finished second behind Clint Bowyer and thus led the championship for the first time. He won again the Dodge Challenger 500 at Darlington Raceway the next race weekend and extended his lead to 79 points ahead of Jeff Burton . At the age of 23, Busch became the youngest winner on the traditional circuit in Darlington since it opened in 1950.
His fourth win of the season was the Best Buy 400 at Dover International Speedway . The next week he started a record attempt by racing three races from different NASCAR series on three different tracks in three different states. In the Truck Series he was second, in the Nationwide Series 20th and in the top class, the Sprint Cup , 43rd. At the LifeLock 400 on June 15, Busch was 13th, but retained the overall lead. These two less good results were followed by the fifth win of the season at the Toyota / Save Mart 350 at the Infineon Raceway , after he was in the lead 78 of the 112 laps completed - it was Busch's first victory in the Sprint Cup on a street circuit. After a mixed race in which he temporarily fell back to 37th place, he also won the Coke Zero 400 - his first victory in Daytona. In the following race, the LifeLock.com 400 at Chicagoland Speedway , Busch won after starting from pole position, leading 165 of 267 laps and winning the Dollar General 300 in the Nationwide Series at the Speedway the day before . Together with his brother Kurt , who won the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 , they won four consecutive races, something that only Tim and Fonty Flock had previously achieved in the 1955 season.
After two rather mediocre to bad races, Busch dominated the second half of the race at Centurion Boats at The Glen and thus also secured victory in the second race of the season on a street circuit as well as his eighth win of the season.
2009
The 2009 season started for Busch with a disappointing 41st place in the Daytona 500 . The following weekend he finished third in the Auto Club 500 . The first win of the season in the Sprint Cup followed a week later at the Shelby 427 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway .
2015
The season started with a setback for Busch. In the Xfinity race in Daytona, Busch broke his right leg and left metatarsus, which meant that he missed the first 11 races of the season and thus actually had no right to a chase ticket. NASCAR agreed to make an exception if Busch min. a place in the top 30 in the drivers' standings and a victory. With his first win of the season in Sonoma, Busch achieved a goal. With a further 3 wins in 4 races, Busch consolidated his position within the top 30 and secured his chase ticket with 4 wins. At the Championship Final in Homestead only Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr., Kevin Harvick and Jeff Gordon had the chance to win the title, which Kyle Busch secured with another victory.
2016-2020
In 2016, Busch won four races, but missed defending his title in the last race against Jimmie Johnson and finished third overall behind him and Joey Logano . In addition, in third place, he achieved his best place in the Daytona 500 to date .
In 2017 he fought for the title again with two wins, but missed it again, this time against Martin Truex junior , who won the season finale, while Logano finished second in the same race.
In 2018, Busch was victorious in eight races, more than before, in the season finale at Homestead he was fourth, but unfortunately the other title favorites Logano, Truex and Kevin Harvick all crossed the finish line before him.
In 2019, Busch posted his best Daytona 500 result to date in second place and won five races of the season, one of them at Homestead, which was the second time he secured the title. His main rivals before the season finale had been Truex, Harvick and Denny Hamlin .
The season started badly for Busch as he was eliminated early at the Daytona 500 and only finished 34th. At the Pennzoil 400 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway , Kyle Busch only finished 15th. In the Auto Club 400, however, he was second again behind Alex Bowman , in the FanShield 500 he was third behind Logano and Harvick. Busch is currently twelfth in the overall standings.
show
At a WWE event on December 2, 2019, he was able to win and briefly hold the WWE 24/7 Championship from R-Truth .
Web links
- Official website
- Kyle Busch on NASCAR.com
- Driver statistics on racing-reference.info
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.sportsline.com/autoracing/story/10224492 ( Memento from September 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Samantha Sarcinella is Kyle Busch's girlfriend ( Memento from February 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Busch wins first COT race by beating Burton, Gordon on Nascar.com
- ↑ http://www.scenedaily.com/stories/2007/06/11/scene_daily857.html
- ↑ NASCAR.com: "Busch overcomes car, wall, pits for Darlington victory"
- ↑ Busch edges Edwards as race ends under caution
- ↑ NASCAR.com: Busch uses late-race pass of Johnson for seventh win
- ↑ NASCAR Champion Kyle Busch dethrones 24/7 Champion R-Truth: Raw, Dec. 2, 2019 - YouTube.com. Retrieved December 3, 2019 .
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| SURNAME | Bush, Kyle |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Busch, Kyle Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American NASCAR racing driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Las Vegas , Nevada |