Race Winner: Kyle Busch
Age: 26
Team: No. 18 M&M’s Toyota Owner: Joe Gibbs Crew Chief: Dave Rogers
- Kyle Busch won the Budweiser Shootout at Daytona, his first victory in six starts in the annual non-points preseason event.
- Busch’s previous best finish in the Shootout was fourth in 2010.
- Busch led three laps in the victory, the fifth time he has led the Shootout.
- This is the first Budweiser Shootout victory for Toyota.
- The margin of victory of .013 seconds is the closest in Budweiser Shootout history.
- Tony Stewart finished second, his eighth top-10 finish in the last nine Shootouts.
- Marcos Ambrose finished third in his Budweiser Shootout debut.
The 2012 CRA Super Series SpeedFest 200 may have started at a new venue, but for Kyle Busch and his No. 51 KBM Camry the race ended in a familiar location – Victory Lane. Busch, who won back-to-back SpeedFests in 2009 and 2010 when the event was held at Lanier National Speedway in Braselton, Ga., led 86 of the final 100 laps of Sunday’s race at Watermelon Capital Speedway in Cordele, Ga. en route to his third career SpeedFest title.
“It feels good to be the SpeedFest 2012 winner and to get my first win as a member of the Monster Energy family of athletes,” said Busch. “It was an awesome weekend — the turnout in the grandstands was great and the car count was phenomenal. Everyone with the CRA Super Series does such a great job and I love competing in their events. I can’t say enough about Chris Gabehart and all the guys that work on this KBM Camry — they build fast cars that are a lot of fun to drive.”
Photo Courtesy of Speed51.com
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Busch Brothers Join World Class Lineup of Monster Athletes to Announce Joining Monster Energy Team
A collection of world class Monster Energy action sports athletes welcomed Kyle and Kurt Busch to the Monster Energy team today with the announcement of a multi-year agreement as primary sponsor of the team’s No. 54 Monster Energy Camry in the NASCAR Nationwide Series for Kyle Busch Motorsports.
With multi-time X Games and Dew Tour Champion Jamie Bestwick serving as announcer, a freestyle moto-x demo kicked things off at the headquarters of team owner Kyle Busch’s race shop. “It’s great to have the Busch brothers join the Monster team and be wearing the Claw – they have the right attitude for Monster, and they’re proven winners, which is what Monster is all about,” said Bestwick, who was joined in the announcement by a lineup including seven-time Supercross Champion Jeremy McGrath, multifold Freestyle Motocross X Games Medalists Jeremy “Twitch” Stenberg, Kyle Loza and Adam Jones, off-road champion Johnny Greaves and BMX legend Dave Mirra in making the announcment in front a slack-jawed platoon of NASCAR media members who very likely saw moto-x backflips live for the first time in person.
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Busch Brothers and MONSTER ENERGY
A MONSTER Partnership Fit for a Championship
MOORESVILLE, N.C. (January 19, 2012) – Kyle Busch Motorsports (KBM) announced today that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Monster Energy Company as primary sponsor of the team’s No. 54 Monster Energy Camry in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Team owner Kyle Busch, the all-time race winning driver in the history of the NASCAR Nationwide Series, will share driving duties with his brother Kurt Busch, the 2004 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion.
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Kyle Busch To Present Female Artist Of The Year Award
At The American Country Awards Tonight
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Kyle Busch will present the award for Female Artist of the Year at the second annual American Country Awards tonight, Monday, Dec. 5, at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. The awards show will air live on FOX from 8-10 p.m. ET (8-10 p.m. PT/ tape delayed). The five nominees for Female Artist of the Year are Sara Evans, Alison Krauss, Miranda Lambert, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood.
Tonight, Monday, Dec. 5, 8-10 p.m. ET (FOX)
