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Biography
The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Automotive Industries page on 1 January 2018, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Kyle Thomas "Rowdy" Busch (born May 2, 1985) is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner. He is the driver of the No. 18 Toyota Camry in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and the No. 18 Camry in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for Joe Gibbs Racing. He also owns Kyle Busch Motorsports, which runs multiple trucks in the Camping World Truck Series. Busch is the 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series champion and the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion.
Busch is the younger brother of 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series champion Kurt Busch. He also currently holds several records in NASCAR competition, including the most race wins in a season across the top three NASCAR series, with 24 wins, which he accomplished in 2010. He has the second most all time wins in all three of NASCAR's national touring series with 182, 18 behind the 200 of Richard Petty. Furthermore, he holds the record for the most Xfinity Series wins in a season with 13 in 2010, and the most overall with 91.
At age 19 years and 317 days, Busch became NASCAR's youngest ever pole winner in a Cup Series race at California Speedway in 2005. He holds the record for the most wins (5) in a Xfinity Series rookie season, as well as being the youngest driver to qualify for the Chase for the Sprint Cup, in 2006. Furthermore, Busch became the first driver to win a race and a championship in a Toyota in the Sprint Cup Series, winning at Atlanta Motor Speedway during the 2008 season and the 2015 Cup Series championship. Additionally, he is the only driver to win four straight spring races at Richmond International Raceway (2009–2012), and was also the inaugural winner of the first Cup Series race at Kentucky Speedway, in 2011.
Busch, who began his NASCAR career in 2003, is one of only five drivers that have won a championship in both the Sprint Cup Series and the Xfinity Series, and in 2005 became the 14th of only 28 drivers to win a race in each of NASCAR's three national series. In 2009, Busch became the first driver to win two of NASCAR's top touring series races in the same day (at Auto Club Speedway), followed in 2010 as the first driver to win races in all three of NASCAR's top three touring series in the same weekend (at Bristol), which he would do again at the same track in 2017.
When Busch won the 2009 Crown Royal Presents the Russell Friedman 400 at Richmond International Raceway as he turned 24, he was the second of just three people to ever win on their birthday. His team, Kyle Busch Motorsports, became the first Camping World Truck Series team to win the owners' championship in its first year after recording 8 wins, 16 top 5, and 21 top 10 finishes in 2010.
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Sound and Speed News Conference
January 9, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee
Duration: 2:52
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| Date | Document Name & Details | Documents |
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| 13 June 2007 | Billy Ballew Motorsports | DOC - 391KB - 2 pages |
| 27 May 2008 | Billy Ballew Motorsports Newsletter Rowdy Returns to the Monster Mile Billy Ballew Motorsports | Text & Image - 1 page |
| 3 March 2009 | Billy Ballew Motorsports |  PDF - 526KB - 2 pages |
| 25 May 2009 | Billy Ballew Motorsports (51-Busch) | PDF - 633KB - 2 pages |
| 20 July 2009 | Billy Ballew Motorsports Rowdy Returns to Trucks at ORP | PDF - 719KB - 2 pages |
| 17 August 2009 | Billy Ballew Motorsports (51-Busch) | PDF - 668KB - 2 pages |
| 26 October 2009 | Billy Ballew Motorsports (51-Busch) | PDF - 677KB - 2 pages |
