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Biography
The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Kurt Busch page on 28 January 2018, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Kurt Thomas Busch is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently drives the No. 41 Ford Fusion for Stewart-Haas Racing in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. He was the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series champion. He is the older brother of 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Kyle Busch. The brothers are second-generation racing drivers; their father, Tom, won several NASCAR-sanctioned events.
Busch has also driven for Furniture Row Racing, Phoenix Racing, Penske Racing, and Roush Racing in his Sprint Cup career, which began in 2000. The winner of twenty-nine Cup career races, Busch was driving for Roush Racing when he won the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series championship. Busch also races on an "opportunity permitting" basis in the Pro Stock division of NHRA. When Busch won the Cup Series Championship in 2004, it was the first ever season using the "Chase for the Cup" points format. With a 2006 win in the Busch Series, Busch became one of only twenty-nine drivers to win races in all three of NASCAR's top divisions: the Cup Series, the Xfinity Series, and the Camping World Truck Series. Busch is also a Daytona 500 winner, accomplishing the feat in 2017.
His Cup career has also included a series of arguments, fights with other drivers, profanity-laced tirades, and legal problems that have resulted in suspensions on three different occasions, the most recent being in February 2015.
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2007 Nextel Cup Show Car Photo ©2007 John Walczak Show car at Arlington Heights Jewel 1 July 2007 View photo - 1,703KB |
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2007 Nextel Cup Show Car Photo ©2007 Bill Crittenden Show car at Arlington Heights Jewel 1 July 2007 View photo - 1,148KB |
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2008 Sprint Cup Show Car Photo ©2008 Bill Crittenden Show car at Woodstock Wal-Mart Car created by adding Car of Tomorrow bumpers and wing to previous version NASCAR Nextel Cup car. June 18, 2008 View photo - 261KB |
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Dodge Charger Photo ©2009 Bill Crittenden 2009 Summer NNL hosted by 
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Dodge Charger Photo ©2009 Bill Crittenden 2009 Summer NNL hosted by
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2011 Show Car Photo ©2011 Heidi Walczak 2011 Walmart Shareholders' Meeting  View photo of Kurt Busch Show Car - 2,629KB |
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| Collector Card - 2003 Press Pass Optima 5 | Kurt Busch | 97 Rubbermaid |
| Collector Card - 2003 Press Pass Optima 45 | Kurt Busch | Up Close, 97 Rubbermaid |
| Collector Card - 2003 Press Pass Optima Fan Favorite FF13 | Kurt Busch | 97 Rubbermaid |
