Kyle Busch - 2009

Kyle Busch Chiseling Into the Chase

Thursday, 03 September 2009 19:21 Kyle Busch - Kyle Busch - 2009

Two weeks ago, Kyle Busch entered the Sharpie 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway 15th in the championship point standings. He also had a rather intimidating 70-point deficit to 12th-place Mark Martin and the final spot in the Chase for the Championship.

Busch responded to the challenge by doing what he does best. He won.

The Las Vegas native led only once, for the final 68 laps, to win the Sharpie 500 and, in the process, vaulted the Pedigree team up to 13th in the standings, just 34 points behind 12th-place Matt Kenseth.

Busch, driver of the No. 18 Pedigree Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR), will look to chisel into that 34-point margin in Sunday night's Pep Boys Auto 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga.

Solid Top-Five Run Ends With a Top-10 for Busch at Montreal

Monday, 31 August 2009 12:59 Kyle Busch - Kyle Busch - 2009

Kyle Busch looked like anything but a first-time visitor to the legendary Formula 1 road course in Montreal known as the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, evidenced by his solid run that was marred only by a late-race incident two laps from the end of Sunday's NASCAR Nationwide Series NAPA Auto Parts 200, leaving him with a disappointing 10th-place finish.

As is so often the case these days, the talented 24-year old driver of the No. 18 Interstate Batteries Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing looked very much at home from the drop of the green flag. He took to the 2.708-mile, 15-turn layout like, well, Busch takes to most any racetrack.

Montreal Race Preview

Thursday, 27 August 2009 16:56 Kyle Busch - Kyle Busch - 2009

It all started for Kyle Busch in March 2008 with a Mexican hat dance in victory lane at the legendary Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez road course in downtown Mexico City. He then blasted through a few more road courses with thoroughly dominating victories in the rich, wine-growing regions of Sonoma, Calif., and Watkins Glen, N.Y. Now, Busch heads northward to Canada for Sunday's NAPA Auto Parts 200 NASCAR Nationwide Series race in Montreal.

Busch, driver of the No. 18 Interstate Batteries Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR), looks to add his third North American country to his road course victory list over the past two seasons when he makes his first career appearance at

Bush Stomps 'Em at Bristol

Tuesday, 25 August 2009 18:32 Kyle Busch - Kyle Busch - 2009

M&M’s Driver Leads Final 68 Laps to Win Sharpie 500

Kyle Busch looked sharp in Saturday night's Sharpie 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway as he led the final 68 laps of the 500-lap race to take his fourth win of the season and his second consecutive Sprint Cup victory at Bristol.

The driver of the No. 18 M&M's Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing held off a strong charge from venerable Mark Martin, who was making his 1,000th career NASCAR start. Martin led five times for a race-high 240 laps, but Busch proved too strong when it mattered most, and he was able to secure his 16th Sprint Cup win and a sweep of the 2009 Sprint Cup races at Bristol.

"Mark Martin, what a class act," said Busch, whose previous Bristol wins came in March 2007 and March 2009. "He deserved to win this race and I'm sorry he came home second. I know how he feels. I drove as hard as I could and he had a chance. He raced me clean. We didn't have the best car tonight, but we had a car capable enough of doing it if I could drive it hard enough. I gave it everything I had. This is pretty crazy. We wanted to win here so long. Really have to thank M&M's, Toyota, everybody at Sprint and of course Tom Murphy - our thoughts go out to his family."

Michigan Race Report

Monday, 17 August 2009 21:05 Kyle Busch - Kyle Busch - 2009

Kyle Busch, driver of the No. 18 Interstate Batteries Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR), finished a disappointing 23rd in Sunday's CARFAX 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn.

Busch, who started 39th, fought a loose handling condition for much of the first half of the 200-lap race, but he and crew chief Steve Addington eventually found a balance for the car that worked thanks to a series of wedge, tire pressure and track-bar adjustments.

By lap 149, Busch had worked his way into the top-five as teams began thinking about fuel strategy for the remaining 51 laps.

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