Kurt Busch
- Height: 5-11
- Weight: 150
- Born: Aug 4, 1978, Las Vegas, NV
News and Notes
Oct 28
This week: Busch, who enters Talladega 240 points out of lead, has no wins, six top-five finishes and 12 top-10s at Talladega in 17 starts. He was 21st in this race last year and sixth in April. Busch has finished in the top 10 in eight of his last 10 Talladega races. "I don't know what driver first called it a high-speed chess match, but that's a pretty good analogy and I've always thought of the competition that way," Busch said. "It's like you come down to the finish looking to be among the lead pack. Then it comes down to making your strategic moves out there while at the same time anticipating the next moves of all the guys around you. It often gets really hairy out there, and you're forced to really hang it all out on the line. But the way I've always looked at it is, what we do every race is certainly not for the weak at heart. These races just always seem to bump it up a notch or two on the stress meter -- for the drivers, team members and especially the fans."
Last week: Busch is coming off a 17th-place finish at Martinsville. "We took a hit in the points at Martinsville last weekend and lost more ground to the leader, but we know from experience that it could have been much worse," Busch said. "We knew that the 48 car (Johnson), Mark (Martin), the 24 (Jeff Gordon) and the 42 (Juan Pablo Montoya) were all going to be good there, and they were. But we all recognize that anything can happen at Talladega this weekend. We're coming in there realistically more than a full race behind the leaders, but things happen so fast and the points situation could really get shaken up at the end of Sunday's race."
Etc.: So how is Busch planning on celebrating Halloween weekend at Talladega? "We'll probably dig up a costume to wear, hop on the golf cart and do a spin or two around the Talladega infield," Busch said. "A bunch of our team members are planning on hanging out after practice on Saturday. We all plan on heading over to take in the Zac Brown Band concert."
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