Busch Quotes

I`m going to be a Busch driver or a Cup driver one day.

((AP) - In 2001, when Kyle Busch was 16 and a high school junior, older brother Kurt sounded a warning to NASCAR competitors.) You think I`m a pretty good race car driver? Wait until you see my brother, ... He`s the best driver in the family.

This was a great momentum-builder, ... Look out, Kurt Busch is running again. This just propels you right into the Chase.

(Brian Vickers was livid Saturday after he got black flagged for passing a car on the left during a late restart in the Busch race. Vickers seemed to have a half-decent excuse: The car in front of him missed a shift and it was either pass him or rear-end him.) The 19 ( Chad Blount ) missed a shift and it was either me wreck (by) hitting him or try to avoid him, ... That`s racing. When somebody misses a shift it`s a basic maneuver -- you either wreck or be wrecked and we went low to miss him. I never passed him before the start/finish line. It`s the front bumper that counts and it was a bad call.

I thought my first pole would be somewhere else. There are a lot of good drivers here this weekend -- 10 Winston Cup drivers and all the Busch regular drivers. To sit on the pole and be in front of the field Saturday is a big accomplishment for this team.

My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

If those drivers were just with Busch teams, I think everything would be fine. It`s their research and development, their constant testing and wind tunnel time; it`s hard to compete with those types of teams.

Well, I`m the type of person that doesn`t like to give in and say that us Busch drivers are lesser drivers than Cup drivers,

Actually, I was just happy to finish a Busch race. That was actually the first one I ever finished.

Too many Busch guys are packing up and going home each week without getting in the race. The Cup drivers are taking up too many spots in the Busch races.

(Hendrick`s son, Ricky, killed in a plane wreck last year, had worked closely with Busch.) Ricky had so much confidence in Kyle and the structure of the two teams, and to see the two cars run like that, and Kyle to win, and become the youngest guy.... ... Kyle has done a super job. He got a lot of criticism early on that he was too young. But I`m just really proud.

Richard and I have talked about running the Busch Series, but he wants to be 110 percent ready when we do unfold a Busch program,

Usually a clean Busch race is a catastrophe in the Cup. I was just wanting to prepare you guys.

I don`t know that there is any more urgency now that Erin has run a Busch race,

What I want to do is have a good, solid racing background. I don`t want to move up into the Busch or Truck series and try to learn how to race there.

Whatever this test leads to is still unknown right now, but I will always be able to say that I got to drive an RCR Busch car, which very few people can say,

Jack has no interest in Jamie McMurray getting out of his contract. I`ve got no interest in letting Kurt Busch out of his contract. And I certainly have no desire to go cause angst in my sponsors.

I`m going to say that Carl Edwards -- I predict -- is the driver of the decade for not only Roush Racing but for all of Nextel Cup racing, ... I cant imagine anybody coming into the business in their first full year and being able to win four times, and won in the Busch car for the first time this year.

I don`t know if that is quite the same. Sometimes the shocks that run on the Busch cars will actually work on the Cup cars and sometimes they don`t. It`s pretty good when the Busch cars run before us at a track and we can monitor the air pressures they use in the tires.

Not really. Jon has never asked me for anything and if he hasn`t asked me I don`t want to go and stick my nose in his business. He has done a pretty good job on his own. The Busch cars drive a little different, and I`m sure he`s got guys on the Busch side that he talks to.

I`m hoping we can get one of the Busch teams to pit us on Sunday. If some sponsors come out of the woodwork, maybe we can buy some new tires, too. That`d be a nice luxury.