Kurt Busch
Team: No. 97 Sharpie Ford Taurus
Owner: Jack Roush
Crew Chief: Jimmy Fennig
Chassis: #58 (finished sixth at Texas)
Kurt Busch on racing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway:
"Everyone wants to win at Indy, no matter what form of motorsports you’re competing in. We’ve had some good finishes here, but we’d love to be able to cross that yard of bricks first when the checkers come out on Sunday afternoon. It would certainly help us out from a points’ perspective as well.”
Crew Chief Jimmy Fennig on racing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway:
“This race pays out the same points as all the rest of them, but it seems like everyone pushes just a little harder when we are in Indy. We’ve got a good car that we’re bringing this week, and we’ve got Kurt Busch, so we feel good about this weekend.”
Fast Facts
Kurt Busch, coming off a win at New Hampshire, finished 26th at Pocono last week due to a transmission problem. The effort dropped him one position in the NEXTEL Cup Series standings to seventh.
This is Busch’s 19th consecutive week among the Top 10. He trails sixth-ranked Elliott Sadler by 23 points, but 10th-ranked Kevin Harvick is within 61 points of Busch.
Busch has a pair of top-10 finishes in three career starts at Indianapolis, including a seventh last season. His best finish at Indy was fifth in 2001.
Busch is running the No. 97 Sharpie paint scheme for the ninth of 18 events in the 2004 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series season this weekend.
Busch tested on Tuesday at Virginia International Raceway to prepare for the August 15th trip to Watkins Glen, and celebrated his 26th birthday on Wednesday, August 4th.
Busch traveled to Indianapolis on Thursday via New Jersey where he stopped by to visit tennis legend John McEnroe as a guest on his new prime-time talk show “McEnroe”.
