Kyle Thomas Busch

Kyle Thomas Busch, (born May 2, 1985) is an American NASCAR driver and team owner. He currently drives the No. 18 Mars/Interstate Batteries Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing in the Sprint Cup Series, the No. 18 Z-Line Designs/NOS Energy Drink Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs in the Nationwide Series, and the No. 18 Dollar General Toyota Tundra for his own team, Kyle Busch Motorsports, in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.

He currently holds the modern-era record for most race wins in a season across the top three NASCAR series with twenty-four wins, which he accomplished in 2010. On August 21, 2010, Busch became the first driver to win in all three of NASCAR's top three touring series in the same weekend (Bristol). Busch became the first driver in Nationwide series history to lead more than 10,000 laps.^[1] Busch also holds the record for the most NASCAR Nationwide Series wins with 51, surpassing Mark Martin's 49.

Busch is also only the second driver to ever win on his birthday, winning the 2009 Crown Royal Presents the Russell Friedman 400 at Richmond International Raceway, which was run on his 24th birthday. Cale Yarborough was the first.

Kyle Busch married Samantha Sarcinella on December 31, 2010 in Chicago. Sarcinella is a native of St. John, Indiana and a graduate of Purdue University.

He is the younger brother of 2004 Nextel Cup Series champion Kurt Busch admin1998aa15

Jeff gordon

Jeffery Michael "Jeff" Gordon (born August 4, 1971) is a professional NASCAR driver. He is a four-time NASCAR Winston Cup (now Sprint Cup) Series champion, three-time Daytona 500 winner, and driver of the No. 24 Drive To End Hunger/DuPont/Pepsi Chevrolet Impala. In 2009, Gordon became the first driver to reach $100 Million in career winnings for the Cup series.He has won a total of 83 career races, second in the modern era behind Darrell Waltrip and was the fastest to reach 50 wins, requiring 232 starts, 46 fewer starts than second place Darrell Waltrip.

Gordon, along with Rick Hendrick, are the co-owners of the #48 Lowe's sponsored team, driven by Jimmie Johnson, who won the 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 Sprint Cup series championships. Gordon also has an equity stake in his own #24 team. He was born in Vallejo, California, raised in Pittsboro, Indiana, and currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. At the Awards Banquet in December, his Hometown was announced as Pittsboro, Indiana.

Carl Edwards

Edwards' big break came in 2001, when he competed in 7 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series events for MB Motorsports. His best finish in the seven races was 8th at Kansas Speedway. He also ran one Busch Series race for Bost Motorsports, finishing 38th at Gateway International Raceway. However, it was enough to impress Jack Roush, and Edwards became a full-time Truck Series competitor in 2003, driving the #99 Ford F-150 sponsored by Superchips. He won Rookie-of-the-Year honors in addition, to three race wins, eventually finishing 8th in the points standings at the end of the season. In 2004, he notched three more race wins, including the season-opening Florida Dodge Dealers 250 at the Daytona International Speedway. At season's end, Edwards finished 4th in the points. In August 2004, he made his NEXTEL Cup Series debut, replacing Jeff Burton, who left the team, in the No. 99 Ford Taurus for Roush Racing, at the Michigan International Speedway. He finished 10th. He drove the #99 Ford for the remainder of the 2004 NEXTEL Cup. He also once again ran one Busch Series race; this time for Bobby Benton's RAB Racing team at Bristol Motor Speedway with sponsorship from Mac Tools.

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By David Thomas, McClatchy Newspapers (MCT): FORT WORTH, Texas — Danica Patrick put her skills on display Wednesday at Texas Motor Speedway.

She wasn't in a car, wearing a fire suit or even standing on the track.

Instead, she was up in a ninth-floor banquet room of the Speedway Club for TMS' annual Media Day.

She wasn't the only guest. Denny Hamlin, the two-time winner at TMS last year and near winner of the Chase for the Sprint Cup, was on hand. So was racing legend Johnny Rutherford and a handful of other racers and owners from various levels.

But the room was Danica's.

She took the stage for a 10-minute Q&A with TMS president Eddie Gossage, during which she was lively and quick-witted. She even landed a couple of jabs on Gossage, and that's a sure-fire way to get the area media on her side.

Danica also made the rounds on local sports radio shows, playfully engaging the hosts and even managing to turn the wheel in a different direction when the conversation seemed headed toward an I-hope-they-don't-ask-that question that made you cringe in anticipation.

If there had been a Victory Lane in the Speedway Club, Danica would have stood there at the end of the day.

And that leads to this question concerning Danica: How big would she become if she made more visits to track-side Victory Lanes?

She has been in one since joining the Izod IndyCar Series in 2005. That win came in 2008, and it came in Japan. It's difficult to imagine a place where her first win could generate less attention here.

So in some regards, we have never truly watched Danica win.

As Danica worked the room Wednesday, you couldn't help but imagine what it would be like if she could win even two or three times every season.

And, really, is there any legitimate reason to believe that she could not do that?

She came close to winning on this very track in 2010, recording one of her two second-place finishes last season in the Firestone 550K.

Her '08 victory came when she was only an IndyCar driver. Now that she has added NASCAR's Nationwide Series to her schedule, the potential for exposure is so much greater.

And while we're imagining, let's imagine what Gossage might do with a Danica victory on his track.

We have seen him turn Danica's spat with fellow driver Dan Wheldon into a boxing-themed promotional banner, complete with Don King's mug shot.

We have seen him turn a photo of Danica from a "Sports Illustrated" swimsuit issue photo into a billboard.

"You've been very good for me," Danica told Gossage on Wednesday.

"You've been very good for us," Gossage replied. "You really have."

The potential for better is there for the day when Danica becomes a racing success anywhere near the level that she has become a commercial success.

She is much closer, of course, to accomplishing that in IndyCar than in NASCAR.

In IndyCar, Danica's expectations are wins and top-five finishes.

On the Nationwide Series, where she is only two races into her second part-time season, her expectations are top-15 finishes.

She called last year frustrating. Her IndyCar season started slowly, but did end with fifth-place and runner-up finishes in the final two weeks.

At times in her first Nationwide season, she would look and feel top-15 during tests and practices, but then on race day, she said, "It just didn't come together and it didn't happen.

"I think I let good days give me false expectations that were premature," she said.

"Once I got to the end of the year, I just said, 'Look, top 15, that's all it is.'

"I just want to get there. Once I get there on a regular basis, then I'll adjust my goals."

Danica had to adjust mentally to going from one circuit where she expected to win to another in which she realistically couldn't. Her confidence took a bit of a hit.

During her year of frustration, though, she said people were good to her, and that helped greatly.

"Especially in NASCAR," she explained, "with the announcers and everybody pointing out all the good things I was doing out there, and embracing me and really having nice things to say.

"It made a huge difference for me and my self-esteem. And also probably for public perception as well."

There was appreciation in her voice as she spoke those words.

Danica can be laugh-out-loud funny. She can be refreshingly reflective. To see Danica put her skills on display as she did Wednesday, you know that she can be so many things.

And that's what made it fun to look out from that room Danica was commanding and down to TMS' Victory Lane, then imagine what it would be like to see her there.

There might not be even an Eddie Gossage promotion big enough for that

Kevin Harvick

 

Kevin Michael Harvick (born December eight, 1975) is an American stock automotive auto racing race car driver and automobile proprietor presently competing within the NASCAR Sprint Cup Collection for Richard Childress Racing, driving the 29 Budweiser/Jimmy John's Chevrolet Impala. Harvick additionally drives his own 33 Rheem/Menards Chevrolet Impala part-time within the Nationwide Collection, and his own 2 Citifinancial/Armour Meals Chevrolet Silverado part-time in the Tenting World Truck Series.

 

Richard Petty

Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937) is a former NASCAR driver who raced within the Strictly Stock/Grand National Era and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. "The King", as he's nicknamed, is most well-known for profitable the NASCAR Championship seven occasions (Dale Earnhardt is the one other driver to accomplish this feat), successful a record 200 races during his career, profitable the Daytona 500 a report seven occasions, and successful a file 27 races[1] (ten of them consecutively) within the 1967 season alone. (A 1972 rule change eradicated races below 250 miles (four hundred km) in length, lowering the schedule to 30 [now 36] races.) Petty is extensively thought-about one of the biggest NASCAR drivers of all time. He also collected a file number of poles (127) and over seven hundred prime-ten finishes in his 1,185 begins, together with 513 consecutive starts from 1971-1989.

Petty is a second technology driver. His father, Lee Petty, received the first Daytona 500 in 1959 and was also a three time NASCAR champion. Richard's son, Kyle Petty, is also a well-known NASCAR driver. Richard's grandson, Adam Petty, was killed in an accident at New Hampshire Worldwide Speedway on Could 12, 2000, five weeks after the loss of life of Lee. Meanwhile, Adam's brother Austin works on day-to-day operations of the Victory Junction Gang Camp, a Hole within the Wall Gang camp established by the Pettys after Adam's death. Petty married his wife Lynda in 1958 and so they have 4 youngsters - Kyle Petty, Sharon Petty Farlow, Lisa Petty Luck and Rebecca Petty Moffit - and 12 grandchildren.The family still resides in Petty's house town of Stage Cross, North Carolina and operates Richard Petty Motorsports. The Richard Petty Museum is in close by Randleman, North Carolina. Since January 7, 2008, Petty Enterprises has been the newest resident of Race City, U.S.A., transferring their race staff into the vacated Yates Racing one hundred fifteen,000-sq.-foot (10,seven-hundred m2) facility in Mooresville, N.C. Throughout Petty's profession, however particularly throughout his prime, Petty was identified to stand for hours - backed in opposition to a fence, signing autographs to everybody who asked.

 

Danica Patrick

DAYTONA BEACH - There have been a laundry listing of theories and solutions about how NASCAR can regain its popularity, rekindle its TV rankings and recapture its fan base.

The concepts have ranged from a brand new points system to shorter races to uniform start times to drivers reconnecting with fans and exhibiting extra coloration and candidness.

These are all advantageous ideas, but I have a better one that is way more foolproof and far much less complex:

Danica.

t's it.

Simply Danica.

Thank you very much, NASCAR.

Just ship that $10 million you had been going to spend on consultants to my mailing tackle at the Orlando Sentinel.

Identical to that, I've saved the sport. I've given Brian France and his fellow NASCAR fits the concept, but now it is as much as them to do everything of their huge power to implement it and make Danica Patrick a relevant.

The movers and shakers of NASCAR have been accused by previous conspiracists of scripting race outcomes like Richard Petty winning No. 200 on the Fourth of July in Daytona with President Ronald Reagan in attendance or Dale Earnhardt Jr. winning the Pepsi four hundred in the first race again at Daytona only some months after his father perished within the Daytona 500. I don't essentially consider it, but when there's a shred of truth to what the conspiracy theorists say then NASCAR may need to contemplate choreographing a situation that that might turn Danica Patrick into a champion.

Better but, how about a script that might have Danica barreling past Dale Earnhardt Jr. and knocking him and Jimmie Johnson into the wall as she wins the Daytona 500?

"That would get everybody's blood pumping, wouldn't it?" said veteran driver Mark Martin when asked how much it will elevate the game if Danica ever turned a factor.

She's acquired everything NASCAR could presumably want apart from the fact that her identify is not Danica Earnhardt Jr. She's acquired the character, the pizzazz, the zeal, the intercourse attraction, the media adoration and fan adulation. And he or she certainly has the fire and desire.

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