Kurt Busch To Attempt The Memorial Day Double

[ClampedUp]

Hahahahaha! No he didn't lose, busch wadded up his primary car on the Monday prior to the 500 and he did it all by hisself in PRACTICE!!

It absolutely was a good finish for a taxi cab driver but face it, he was not in a class with Carpenter, Castroneves, RHR, Andretti or Hinchcliffe and never got close to challenging for the lead all day.

Fact of the matter is Busch with very limited experience and practice went out and competed against and out performed 95% of a field of drivers that their whole careers have been involved in different forms of open wheel racing.
Was luck involved. Without a doubt but pure talent was just as much of a factor.
Sans JPM can you name any Indy drivers in the field that could pull off a finish in the 600 comparable to what Busch done in Indy??
IMO I think this just busted the door wide open for more drivers from the NASCAR ranks to get quality rides and a chance to run the Indy 500 if they choose to give in a go.

[Mittvok]

Juan and Kurt both had great finishes. Congrats to Kurt. Awesome achievement your first time out.

[CIRF]

I'm not even going to address the idiocy in posts 29 & 30, it's a waste of time.

The NASCAR guys coming to Indy is nothing new. Bobby & Donny Allison (Donny ran 4th at Indy in 1970, 6th in 1971), Cale Yarborough qualified for 4 Indy 500's and Lee Roy Yarbrough along with Paul Goldsmith and a few others I'm forgetting have all tried their hands at The Greatest Spectacle In Racing. Some of them fared pretty well at Indy, too. In some cases better than buschy.

On the same token several Indy Car guys have given NASCAR a go and won races. AJ Foyt and Mario Andretti won the biggest NASCAR race of them all, The Daytona 500. Jim Hurtubise won a top division NASCAR race as well and I'm sure there are others that I don't remember so none of what buschy did was ground breaking in the least.

Too bad the Indy people didn't show the little video clip of buschy's conversation with Dr. Jerry Punch at Homestead from a couple of years ago to show Indy exactly the kind of guy buschy really is. I'd love to see some NASCAR guys come to Indy Car but a$$wipes like buschy don't really represent the cream of the NASCAR crop. I believe, to some extent, the double deal was a bit of a ploy to attempt to resurrect buschy's image but it'll take more than a 6th at Indy to do that.

[LITE-INN]

whats wrong can t answer those can you come on you brag about foyt but dis busch e whats up

[LITE-INN]

whats wrong can t answer those can you come on you brag about foyt but dis busch e whats up

[CIRF]

The simple truth is I can't figure out WHAT THE HE!! YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!

[Barbecueboy]

whats wrong can t answer those can you come on you brag about foyt but dis busch e whats up

Is it weird that a Midwesterner from the heartland of America speaks broken English????

Litey bro.........you just absolutely field dress every single sentence or paragraph that I've ever seen you post.......sorry, no comprende.

[LITE-INN]

I can read yours blackie but care not to because you are a d bag

[blackford]

I can read yours blackie but care not to because you are a d bag

Coming from a guy who's right there after everything I post!! Troll??? He's now the biggest one on 4m...

[Clayton_Wetter]

It's beginning to look more and more like Stewart is not going to make the Chase.!

[racin6mod]

I might be compltly wrong but I think HMS has Tony's team doing a lot of the testing for the entire group right now. love him or hate him he's a wheelman above most and can drive just about anything and the last time he looked this bad he won the championship with or without nascars help. something has to be going on for DP and kevin to run so well and tony to sux so bad out of the 8 cars the 14 and the 5 have the worst average compared to ther norm.

I know other nascar driver ran well at indy back in the day but the cars of today are nothing like each other and for kurt to do as well as he did in a one off deal(unlike WM's who had a couple tune up races) he11 AJ and mario won in both series. I wonder if andretti is using Kurt as a source to get the info and conections he needs to get his cup team started? you can bet he has something motivating him to do this deal.$$$$

[LITE-INN]

Coming from a guy who's right there after everything I post!! Troll??? He's now the biggest one on 4m...

you are still a douche bag and I don't tony is under full power from that wreck hey CIRF AT LEAST Kurt doesn't speak broken english like most of the indy boys do

[mudslinger47]

I might be compltly wrong but I think HMS has Tony's team doing a lot of the testing for the entire group right now. love him or hate him he's a wheelman above most and can drive just about anything and the last time he looked this bad he won the championship with or without nascars help. something has to be going on for DP and kevin to run so well and tony to sux so bad out of the 8 cars the 14 and the 5 have the worst average compared to ther norm.

I know other nascar driver ran well at indy back in the day but the cars of today are nothing like each other and for kurt to do as well as he did in a one off deal(unlike WM's who had a couple tune up races) he11 AJ and mario won in both series. I wonder if andretti is using Kurt as a source to get the info and conections he needs to get his cup team started? you can bet he has something motivating him to do this deal.$$$$

Had not thought of that angle.....food for thought..

[CIRF]

Most speak broken English? LOLOL!!! Hmmmmm.

There were 11 Americans in the field for the Indy 500 and a several Canadians, British and Australians. All of whom speak better English than you do. Please, for God's sake know what you're talking about.

In regards to Mario, A.J., Hurtubise (Hurtubise won a Cup, or Grand National race at Atlanta) and maybe a few others, they were all three open wheel guys that went over to NASCAR and beat the taxi cab boys at their own game on their own tracks. It's never happened the other way around in reference to The Indy 500, at least not since WWII.

All I'm saying is what buschy did at Indy is nothing new or earth shattering. People are talking like it was some super human feat and it's been done even better by a couple of guys. Donnie Allison just to name one. And, buschy didn't outrun 95% of the starting field, to do that he would have had to run 3rd or better.

[retired racer]

CIRF has spoken,the rest of you idiots be silent he knows all,or at least pretends to ,i'm laughing at you.