Lowe’s Motor Speedway Advance
Lowe’s Motor Speedway, May 28-29, 2005
NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series: Coca-Cola 600, Sunday at 5:30 pm (ET)
Kurt Busch
Team: No. 97 Smirnoff Ice/IRWIN Industrial Tools/Sharpie Ford Taurus
Crew Chief: Jimmy Fennig
Chassis: #62 (Finished third at Fontana earlier this year.)
Kurt Busch on racing at Lowe’s Motor Speedway:
“We were a little too aggressive on our setup last week for the All-Star Challenge. This new track is definitely different; it's more like Texas than it is like Charlotte now, so we've got to revert back to some of those notes for next week in the Coca-Cola 600. We’ve got our Smirnoff Ice scheme at Lowe’s for the first time this year. Last year we had a nice run with it at Darlington, and we’d love to pick up another top 10 with it this weekend in the 600.”
Crew Chief Jimmy Fennig on racing at Lowe’s Motor Speedway:
“We’ve got a good car to take this weekend, its one we’ve run really well with this year and last year. We’re going to have to go back and look at our notes a little more with this new track surface. But we’ll be able to try a lot of things over 600 miles and get this thing figured out.”
Fast Facts
Kurt Busch sits fifth in points following his 17th-place finish at Richmond two weeks ago, and remains in the top 10 NEXTEL Cup Series competition for the 46th consecutive race week (since Rockingham 2004), currently the longest streak on the circuit.
Busch has scored only one top-10 finish in nine points starts at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, a fourth there last fall. He has led four races at the speedway and suffered only one DNF.
Busch’s No. 97 Ford Taurus sports the colors of Smirnoff Ice at the Coca-Cola 600 for the first of three times this season (Daytona and Fontana).
The Smirnoff Ice team brings chassis #62 to Charlotte, the same car that finished fourth at the speedway in the fall and third at Fontana earlier this year.
