Driver Profile: Kurt Busch

Driver of the #51: Kurt Thomas Busch (Sprint Cup Series)

Nickname: Kurt
Birthdate: August 4th, 1978
Hometown: Las Vegas, Nevada
Resides: Concord, North Carolina
Marital Status: Divorced
Children: None

Rookie Season: 2001
Years in Sport: 12
Starts: 400
First Race: 2000 MBNA.com 400 (Dover)
Poles: 15
First Pole: 2001 Southern 500 (Darlington)
Wins: 24
First Win: 2002 Food City 500 (Bristol)
Top-Fives: 88
Top-Tens: 169

Team: Phoenix Racing
Years with Team: First year with team
Owner: James Finch
Sponsor: TAG Heuer
Car Make: Chevrolet
Highest Points Finish: 1st (2004)
Lowest Points Finish: 48th (2000)

Career Highlights:

• Won the 2004 Championship, which was the first time NASCAR used the Chase format.
• One of the 23 drivers to win in all three of NASCAR's top series.
• "Left" Roush Racing in 2005 to join Penske Racing, taking of the #2 for Rusty Wallace.
• "Left" Penske Racing in 2011 to join Phoenix Racing replacing Landon Cassill in the #51
• Winner of the 26th running of the All-Star Race.
• 2011 Budweiser Shootout winner

Courtniee's 2012 NASCAR Prediction for Kurt Busch:
       Kurt Busch will get a taste of his own medicine this NASCAR season. He will struggle in the beginning of the season getting use to his new team and will continue to struggle. Though he will break the into the top-five a few times this season, Busch will fail to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup. He will win at most one race. Final standings: 16th.