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Busch received the primary NASCAR playoff championship in 2004.He raced for 5 totally different groups and received in 4 totally different automobile makes.
Kurt Busch’s profession of appreciable ups coupled with troubling downs has reached another pinnacle. The oldest of the 2 Busch brothers has been chosen as a brand new member of the NASCAR Corridor of Fame.
Busch’s election and announcement got here Tuesday on the Corridor of Fame in downtown Charlotte.
When the formal inductions arrive in January of subsequent yr, Busch will probably be joined within the Corridor of Fame’s Class of 2026 by Harry Gant, the opposite inductee from the “trendy period” poll, and “pioneer poll” inductee Ray Hendrick.
Additionally honored, with the Corridor’s Landmark Award for “excellent contributions,” will probably be Humpy Wheeler, longtime president of Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Meet the brand new NASCAR Corridor of Famers
Gant — identified within the racing group as “Good-looking Harry” — was a 39-year-old Cup Sequence rookie in 1979. He received 18 races over a profession than lasted to age 54. The spotlight was the ’91 season when, at age 51, he received 4 straight races (together with his second Southern 500 at Darlington) in early fall and was given the label of “Mr. September.”
Hendrick did his profitable simply outdoors the largest NASCAR spotlights. He received an estimated 700 races in late fashions and, largely, in modifieds, incomes the Mr. Modified moniker.
Howard Augustine Wheeler was a mixture of old-school promotions, even on the largest of big-league races, and new-age visionary. At Charlotte, with the backing of monitor proprietor Bruton Smith (one other Corridor of Famer), Humpy constructed a condominium complicated outdoors Flip 1, and in 1992 made Charlotte the primary large speedway to put in lights.
Kurt Busch’s street to the Corridor of Fame
Together with profitable NASCAR’s first championship playoffs, Busch additionally received the first-ever playoff race — the postseason opener at New Hampshire in 2004.
There was no winner-take-all last within the early playoff years, however an accumulation of playoff factors. Ultimately, Busch was simply eight factors higher than Jimmie Johnson and 16 higher than Jeff Gordon.
The Las Vegas native received Cup Sequence races for 5 totally different groups: Roush Racing, Crew Penske, Stewart-Haas, Chip Gannassi Racing and 23XI, with whom he received his last race in 2022.
Later in that 2022 season, Busch wrecked throughout qualifying at Pocono and suffered a concussion. He missed the remainder of the yr and formally introduced his retirement the next season.
Alongside together with his on-track brilliance, Busch was identified to ruffle feathers at occasions, notably early in his profession. His testy temperament led to splits with a pair of legendary workforce homeowners — Jack Roush and Roger Penske.
However there was by no means any doubting his racing means. At age 20, he received 4 races for Roush Racing in his one yr of full-time Truck Sequence racing. He started his full-time Cup profession the following yr, 2001, and after a winless rookie marketing campaign, he received 14 races and a championship over the following 4 seasons.
Together with profitable races for 5 totally different groups, he received Cup races in 4 totally different makes of automobiles: Ford, Chevy, Toyota and Dodge.
