Kurt Busch Advance
Lowe’s Motor Speedway
October 13th-15th Nextel Cup Series
UAW-GM Quality 500, Saturday, 7:00PM
Kurt Busch
Team: No. 97 IRWIN VISE-GRIP GrooveLock Ford Taurus
Crew Chief: Jimmy Fennig
Chassis: #62 (finished third at Fontana in the spring)
Busch on racing at Lowe’s Motor Speedway:
“We tested here a few weeks ago, and like everyone else we have to adjust to what seems like an entirely new track. 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 and combine that with what we learned in testing. It seems like every race during the Chase so far we’ve had a car capable of winning, but we’ve either suffered from tire problems or accidents. We have terrific cars for these remaining races, including this week with our special VISE-GRIP GrooveLock Ford Taurus paint scheme, so we’re looking for a good run at a track that has not always been our best.”
Crew Chief Jimmy Fennig on racing at Lowe’s Motor Speedway:
“We’ve got a good car to take this weekend. We tested it here a few weeks ago and we learned some things that should help us out this weekend. 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 500 miles and get this thing figured out.”
Fast Facts
Kurt Busch and the No. 97 Roush Racing team remained 10th in the “Chase” standings after a 14th-place finish at Kansas on Sunday. Busch is now 242 points behind leader Tony Stewart.
The No. 97 brings the blue and yellow of IRWIN on a special paint scheme for IRWIN’s new VISE-GRIP GrooveLock pliers on chassis #62, the same car that finished third at Fontana in the spring. The No. 97 team tested this chassis and #71 (the back-up) on September 20th and 21st.
Busch has scored only one top-10 finish in nine point-events at Lowe’s Motor Speedway (fourth there last fall). He has led four races at the speedway and suffered two DNF’s.
