With his 18 number car, he has won 56 races and remained among the top ten for times out of As a professional, he remained in sponsorship of Mars, Incorporated for a long time. Furthermore, he has signed many contracts with advertising companies. Kyle Busch is married to Samantha Busch who is a co-owner of a professional racing team and also a lifestyle blogger. They married in Busch has a children Brexton Locke Busch. One of the most successful stock car race drivers in history Kyle Busch has a long and incredible career in racing.
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He came back to the front of the field within 15 laps of the penalty, finishing second behind former Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jimmie Johnson. On February 21, , Busch was involved in a multi-car accident with eight laps to go during the Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway. The accident happened exiting the tri-oval, and Kyle Busch bounced off Kyle Larson and slid down into the infield grass and slammed into a concrete wall head-on with no SAFER barriers, Busch climbed out of his race car with the help of medical and on-track officials.
He laid on the ground before being placed on a stretcher as medical personnel attended to his right leg. He later was transported to Halifax Medical Center for further evaluation.
A few hours later, the diagnosis was found to be a massive compound fracture in the lower right leg, a small fracture in the left foot, and a sprained left finger. Busch did receive a medical waiver by NASCAR, enabling him to run for the championship even with his injury layoff, so long as he could qualify under playoff rules. On June 13, , nearly four months after his injury, he won the Xfinity Series race at Michigan in his second start of the season.
In order to make the Chase in , Busch needed to be in the Top 30 in points and have one win in the Sprint Cup Series.
On return to the Sprint Cup Series, Busch had an up-and-down season. In the Coca-Cola , he finished 11th. At Dover, he was running well until he was caught up in a late race crash and finished 36th. He then finished ninth at Pocono. At Michigan, Busch lost control of his car and cracked the wall, wrecking his car and finishing dead last.
At Sonoma, Busch won after a late race caution put him on fresher tires than leader Jimmie Johnson. Their race against each other for second place allowed Busch to keep enough distance to hold first place.
He had built up just enough time to come in first knowing that his brother had passed Bowyer and was quickly gaining on him. On July 11, , Busch won at Kentucky, making him only 87 points from breaking the top 30 in points, and be eligible to enter the Chase.
On July 19, , Busch won at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, making him only 58 points from breaking the top 30 in points, and be eligible to enter the Chase. With 50 laps to go, Busch made a daring move on Brad Keselowski and Kevin Harvick to get his lap back, which resulted from a pit stop earlier in the race. A caution was later thrown, ultimately putting Busch in the lead with 44 laps to go, where he would not be challenged at all in the remaining laps.
The race ended under caution when Alex Bowman smacked the wall off turn 2 as a result of a blown tire on the last lap. He also fended off Brad Keselowski and Kevin Harvick for the win. In the next race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, he won the prestigious Brickyard and put himself 23 points behind the cutoff for the Chase for the Sprint Cup. He also completed the sweep for the weekend after winning the Xfinity race the day before and won three Cup Series races in a row for the first time in his career.
On November 15, , Busch clinched a spot to stay in contention as the Championship Four for the final Chase at Homestead. He was named to the Championship 4, mainly competing against Jeff Gordon.
Busch ended the season with five wins, twelve top fives, and sixteen top tens, despite racing in only 25 of 36 races. Busch won his third straight race at Richmond after starting the race in 32nd, marking the first time he has won three in a row since July when he won Kentucky, New Hampshire, and the Brickyard at Indianapolis.
Next at Talladega, he went as high as second, but went on to finish 13th. The next week at Pocono, Busch led the most laps and won the Xfinity Series race, meaning he has now won at every active Xfinity Series track he has competed at. In the final pit stop for the 18 team during Watkins Glen, the gas can had a malfunction to where fuel wasn't put into the car and forced Busch to pit before the green flag putting him as the last car on the lead lap.
He rebounded to a 3rd-place finish. In the first laps of the Bristol Night race, a caution came out for Busch who spun exiting turn 4.
After spending most of the race picking up laps, fixing the damage, and being 2 laps down, Busch was able to contend up in the Top 5. However, after an incident with Truex Jr. Busch finally won his 50th career Cup Series race at Richmond.
After making it to the round of 8, Busch went on to win at Phoenix ISM Raceway for the first time since his rookie season in , and secured his spot in the championship 4. He would go on to finish 4th in the final standings, with Joey Logano winning the championship. In , Busch announced that he would drive the No. He also stated that he would drive the No. On March 23, at Auto Club Speedway, Busch started 14th and was running fifth on the final restart. His older brother Kurt Busch appeared to have the win locked up, but Kurt and Tony Stewart got into an aggressive battle for the lead that resulted in Busch catching up to the leaders and passing for the win on the final lap.
Kyle Busch also had a good Nationwide series season. He shared the No. Busch took the win at Phoenix holding off former rival Kevin Harvick. The rain delayed the race finish forcing it to be called official therefore giving Busch the win. He took the checkers at Bristol by holding off Kyle Larson in a re-run of the Bristol race. Busch finished second but said in an interview that after his week streak of bad luck the runner-up felt like a win to him.
The runner-up returned Busch to the top ten in points after being ranked 12th before the Kentucky event. Busch's results in the Chase spiraled downward after he did not make it to the next round but went on to finish 10th in the standings. He won a Nationwide race at Kansas and almost won a Nationwide race at Phoenix, but got passed by Brad Keselowski on the final lap.
Busch's truck series operation won the most races in for the truck series and he won the owner's championship for a second consecutive time. Busch and crew chief Dave Rogers parted ways at the end of the season. In the offseason shuffle of crew chiefs, Busch was paired with his Xfinity Series crew chief Adam Stevens.
Dave Rogers was transferred over to Denny Hamlin, while Hamlin's previous crew chief Darian Grubb was transferred over to newly recruited Carl Edwards. In late January , Busch was accidentally criticized by Keith Olbermann for brother Kurt's domestic violence case, being mistaken for Kurt. Heading into the season, Busch merged his No.
Busch began the racing season with a crash in the Sprint Unlimited at Daytona International Speedway. In qualifying for the Daytona , he won his Budweiser Duel qualifying race; Busch ran as high as second in the Daytona before blowing an engine after of the race's laps.
That same weekend, Busch won the Sprint Cup pole, setting a new track qualifying record, he finished second after rallying back from a speeding penalty. While racing hard with older brother Kurt, Kyle got into Clint Bowyer and spun out; came back down and was hit hard by Logano. It resembled his spring Kansas wreck. Busch famously climbed out and tried to walk to the infield hospital by himself to gain his composure but an ambulance picked him up escorting him to the hospital.
Italics — Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. Busch started the season announcing he would be moving, in the Nationwide Series, from running for Joe Gibbs Racing to running only a limited schedule races in cars prepared by his own Kyle Busch Motorsports team, driving alongside his brother Kurt, in addition to cutting back his Truck Series schedule to only three races.
His season in the Sprint Cup Series began with a win in the Budweiser Shootout at Daytona International Speedway, his first win in the event; his margin of victory over Tony Stewart, 0. However Busch's only win in a Sprint Cup points event during the year came at Richmond in the Capital City in April, the fourth straight year he won the event; he nearly won at Watkins Glen International before, on the final lap, hitting oil on the track from Bobby Labonte's car and being spun by Brad Keselowski, giving the win to Marcos Ambrose.
He finished 7th. Despite the fact he was not in the Chase, he did well in the final ten races, accumulating 7 top 5 and 8 top 10 finishes. He also dominated a few races - He led the most laps at Dover International Speedway, but had to pit for fuel with 10 laps to go and gave up the lead to Brad Keselowski who gambled and won the race.
He was close to his first win at Martinsville Speedway, but he could not overtake Jimmie Johnson in the final laps. He led the most laps at Phoenix International Raceway, but the last caution gave the trophy to Kevin Harvick. In the season finale, he also led the most laps at Homestead-Miami Speedway, but had to service the car for fuel, resulting in Jeff Gordon winning.
The following week at Daytona, Busch finished second to race winner Brad Keselowski. He finished second despite being in a backup car after a hard practice crash before qualifying. The following day in the Cup race, Busch finished 12th in the fuel mileage race, despite being in the top 5 late before pitting for fuel. The next week at New Hampshire, Busch once again won the Xfinity race. The next day, Busch led the most laps, but faltered on late restarts and finished 8th behind race winner and teammate Matt Kenseth.
Busch won the eighth annual Prelude to the Dream at Eldora Speedway in June , beating Tony Stewart to win the pay-per-view all-star event. He was close to sweep all 3 races at Phoenix again, but Jeff Gordon overtook him with 9 laps to go and took the trophy. Busch swept the March weekend at Bristol, his second sweep of a Bristol weekend.
On April 30, , Busch won his third straight spring race at Richmond International Raceway, capturing his second win of the season. Busch stated that the bump had been congratulatory, and that had he realised the resulting damage would upset Childress he would have paid for the repairs. The following week Busch won the Pure Michigan at Michigan International Speedway, becoming the first driver that season to clinch a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
On August 24, , while competing in the Truck Series O'Reilly at Bristol Motor Speedway, Busch was hit by the Joe Denette Motorsports truck of Elliott Sadler, sending him into the wall and causing severe damage to his truck, while waiting for the caution flag to be displayed, Busch drove rapidly around the track and hit Sadler, spinning him.
Busch stated afterwards that Sadler, a regular driver for Kevin Harvick in the Nationwide Series, deliberately crashed him due to his connection with Harvick, who at the time was feuding with Busch in the Sprint Cup Series, Sadler and Harvick denied any connection, and no penalties were assessed for the incident.
The race also had the closest finish at Bristol in series history, 0. While passing the lapped truck of Johnny Chapman, Busch made contact with series regular championship contender Ron Hornaday, Jr.
While under the yellow flag, Busch drove to Hornaday's truck during the caution and deliberately turned him into the outside wall, smashing Hornaday's truck and ending Hornaday's title hopes. NASCAR immediately black-flagged Busch and parked him for the remainder of the race for his aggressive driving; this was the first case of this being done since Robby Gordon was parked in a Nationwide Series race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
Aric Almirola was briefly considered by Joe Gibbs Racing to replace Busch for the remainder of the year, while it was decided by the team to allow Busch to drive in the final two races of the season with Interstate Batteries sponsorship, Busch was replaced in the team's Nationwide Series car for the final race of the year at Homestead-Miami Speedway by the request of the team's sponsor, Z-Line Designs.
Busch was subsequently replaced by Denny Hamlin as had occurred previously at Texas. Busch stated "I've had this one on my list of big races that I wanted to win and now that I've done it, it feels great - it was everything I thought it would be. He issued a public apology in which he stated he got "carried away" test driving a Lexus LFA. He was also ordered to serve 30 hours of community service and placed on one year of unsupervised probation.
The officer claimed Busch had a "disrespectful attitude. On November 7, at Texas Motor Speedway, Busch spun midway through the race, and while pitting to change tires sped on pit road. In the Nationwide Series he won 13 races in , breaking the all-time record for most Nationwide Series wins in a season previously held by Sam Ard with Busch made it to the second round of the first elimination-format Chase and while he was 2nd in points coming in to Talladega, a crash on lap , where he was rear-ended by rookie Austin Dillon, eliminated him from contention due to a 40th-place finish which dropped him to 10th below the 8th-place cutline.
Sarcinella is a native of St. John, Indiana, and a graduate of Purdue University with a psychology degree. Their son, Brexton Locke Busch, was born on May 18, On November 30, , Samantha announced that she suffered a miscarriage, losing their daughter.
When Busch won the Crown Royal Presents the Russell Friedman at Richmond International Raceway as he turned 24, he was the second of just three people to ever win on their birthday.
His team, Kyle Busch Motorsports, became the first Camping World Truck Series team to win the owners' championship in its first year after recording 8 wins, 16 top 5, and 21 top 10 finishes in Busch started his season with a win at Daytona International Speedway in his Gatorade Duel qualifying race for the Daytona , he led the most laps in the Daytona but was involved in the big one and failed to finish the race.
Afterward, he won the occasion by overcoming Frank Kimmel for the success. With no 5 Chevrolet, he supplanted Brian Vickers and turned full-time driver in where he took part in the Busch Series season.
In October , it was made public that Busch would go after full-time in the Nextel Cup Series while supplanting Terry Labonte in number 5 Chevrolet. He became probably the most youthful individual to win the title in history while being at twenty years old years, four months, and two days. In , Busch turned into the principal driver to win two public visiting series throughout the entire existence of NASCAR around the same time.
In , Kyle was engaged with a different auto crash that was occurred during the Xfinity Series race. That time, Busch was assisted with removing from his vehicle with the assistance of clinical help.
He laid on the ground prior to being set on the cot. With the clinical help, he was subsequently moved to Halifax Medical Center for additional assessment. After a gigantic finding, it was discovered that Kyle was having a compound crack in his right leg, a little break in his left foot, and has hyper-extended his left finger. Kyle Busch began the season with his success at Busch Clash. While taking part in the race at Daytona , he completed the race while being fourteenth.
He was engaged with the searing last-lap crash that further took out various vehicles where Kyle was likewise hit by Austin Cindric. Kyle Busch wedded Samantha Sarcinella on 31st December
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