MBNA America 400 * Dover Int'l Speedway * Sunday, September 21,
2003
Kurt Busch
Team: No. 97 Rubbermaid Ford Taurus
Sponsors: Rubbermaid
Owner: Jack Roush
Driver: Kurt Busch
Crew Chief: Jimmy Fennig
Chassis Number: 46 * raced at Dover in June and won both Bristol
races
Kurt Busch on racing at Dover:
"Dover is a great racetrack that allows some real racing to occur.
You can run up high when you need to and dive down low when the time
calls for it. You basically need to plant that chassis to the bottom of
the racetrack and get good forward bite off the corners. If you can
accomplish that for 400 laps, you'll be smiling when it's over.
We'll be running the Rubbermaid Commercial Products paint scheme
and I tend to have a good day when we're running a special scheme. I
hope Sunday is one of them."
Crew Chief Jimmy Fennig on racing at Dover:
"We're bringing one of our 'money' cars here to Dover/it's
the one that we used during both Bristol wins. This car tends to respond
to changes very predictably and it doesn't dart around very much in
the corners. I think we have a good plan fo
r this weekend/but it
looks like Mother Nature has some plans of her own, so we'll see who
wins that one."
ROUSH RACING FAST FACTS:
Mark Martin holds the 400-mile race record at Dover with an
average speed of 132.719 mph, set on September 21, 1997.
Martin won three consecutive fall races at Dover from 1997 *
1999.
Martin leads all other active drivers with 15 top-five finishes
at Dover.
Martin has posted 20 top-10 finishes, including three victories,
in 34 races at Dover.
Matt Kenseth now has 21 top-10 finishes in 27 starts, a
league-leading statistic. He also has ten top-five finishes; tied with
Bobby Labonte and Ryan Newman for the most.
Kenseth's 2003 Winston Cup point lead is now 404 points over
second place Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
If Kenseth wins the Dover 400 event, his Winston-leader bonus
payout would be a record $280,000.
Kenseth has completed all but two laps of competition in the
2003 season.
Kurt Busch sits seventh in the 2003 Winston Cup point standings
after 26 events, 75 points out of the fifth and 692 points out of first
place.
Busch is second in Winston Cup wins this season with four
victories (California, Michigan & both Bristol events).
Busch's crew chief Jimmy Fennig is tied for winningest active
crew chief in the Winston Cup Series with 24 wins.
Jeff Burton has three top-five and seven top-10 finishes in 19
Winston Cup starts at Dover.
In the last five races at Dover, Burton has completed 97.9% of
his Winston Cup laps run.
In 2002, Burton's average starting position at Dover was 31.5
but his average finish was 4.5.
Jon Wood and Carl Edwards will compete in Saturday's Craftsman
Truck Series race at California Speedway. Combined the two drivers have
four wins, two poles, 18 top-five and 24 top-10 finishes.
