Kyle Busch To Compete With The Sunoco
Super Series In This Weekends Car Brite 400 At Winchester Speedway
Salem, IN (September 30, 2003) –
Teenage
racing phenom Kyle Busch,
younger brother of NASCAR Winston Cup driver Kurt Busch, will be racing in
this weekends 34th Annual Car Brite 400 Sunoco Super Series
event at Winchester Speedway. This will be Busch’s second appearance with
the Sunoco Super Series and his second race with the series on the famed
high banks of Winchester Speedway. Busch competed last year in the Sunoco
Super Series Car Brite 200 at Winchester Speedway getting a ninth place
finish, one lap down to the leaders. Busch showed he had one of the
fastest cars on the track that day after coming back from three laps down
after a broken wheel forced him to make an early green flag pit stop.
Busch was on his way to making up the last lap he was down and getting
ready to put himself into position to challenge for the win when his motor
lost a cylinder. Busch managed to nurse the car home and get the top ten
finish.
Busch will be driving the #84 Hendricks County
Motorsports Chevrolet owned by Indianapolis businessman Jim Winters, the
same team he drove for last season at Winchester. Another young aspiring
driver, Louisville, Kentucky native Chris Gabehart, will drive a team car
to Busch for Winters in the Car Brite 400. Gabehart has competed in
selected Sunoco Super Series events during the 2003 season for the
Hendricks County Motorsports team.
Busch signed a contract with famed NASCAR Winston Cup
team owner Rick Hendrick prior to the beginning of the 2003 race season
after competing in the ASA Racing Series last year when NASCAR rule
changes wouldn’t allow the 17 year old to compete in the NASCAR Craftsman
Truck Series. Busch has competed in five ARCA RE/Max Series events for
Hendrick so far this season with two wins. Busch has also competed in four
NASCAR Busch Series events for Hendrick as a teammate to Brian Vickers
with two top five finishes including a second place finish in his NASCAR
Busch Series debut in May at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. It was recently
announced that Busch will compete full-time in the NASCAR Busch Series
next year replacing Vickers, who will move up to drive for Hendricks in
the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. Busch will have some big shoes to fill next
year, Vickers is currently leading the NACAR Busch Series points while
winning three of the last six NASCAR Busch Series races.
The 34th Annual Car Brite 400 weekend will
start on Friday with practice and first round qualifying for the Sunoco
Super Series. On Saturday the series will have practice along with second
round qualifying and a last chance race. The 34th Annual Car
Brite 400 will take the green flag at 1PM on Sunday. For more information
on this weekend’s events at Winchester Speedway go to
www.winchesterspeedway.com
or www.sunocosuperseries.com.