Kurt Busch got loose off turn two in Final Practice for the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway and crashed along the backstretch. He will roll out a backup for Sunday’s race.
Kurt Busch laid down a lap of 128.804 m.p.h. and will line up on the outside of the front row alongside his brother Kyle.
Kurt Busch posted a lap of 129.657 m.p.h. with Kyle recording a 129.456 m.p.h. lap to land third and fourth on the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway speed chart in the first practice session.
As expected, Kurt Busch finished in the top 10, but outside the top five with a seventh-place finish in the O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.
Kyle Busch won segment two of the O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.
Kurt Busch outpaced the field in round one of qualification with a speed of 197.368 m.p.h. and outlasted the weather. He will lead the field to green this Sunday.
In his last seven starts at Texas Motor Speedway, Kurt Busch has scored six top-15s.
Kurt Busch posted the fastest single lap in Friday’s practice for the O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Texas Motor Speedway with a speed of 196.200 m.p.h.
Four of Kurt Busch’s six races in 2018 have ended in a narrow range of eighth through 14th.
Kurt Busch has lost place-differential points in 14 of his last 16 races.
Stewart-Haas Racing placed all four of their drivers in the top 10 in Saturday morning’s practice for the Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway.
Kurt Busch beat the field in a one-race shootout at the end of stage one and scored a bonus points for the stage win in the TicketGuardian 500 at ISM Raceway.
Kurt Busch entered Ingenuity Sun Media Raceway last year with a five-race streak of top-10s on this track, but he could muster only a pair of 20-something finishes.
Kurt Busch drove Chase Elliott into the wall on a restart with 83 laps to go and crashed both drivers out of the Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway