Kurt Busch Hoping Second Time is a Charm in the Iowa Cornfields

Kurt Busch will conduct “double-duty” at Iowa Speedway for the second time this season, traveling from Long Pond, Pa., where he will practice his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series entry on Friday, and then qualify it on Saturday morning. Busch will then head to the cornfields of Newton, Iowa, where he will try his hand again, in the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at the .867-mile speedway. Busch, the older brother of Kyle Busch Motorsports owner-driver Kyle Busch, has secured two Nationwide Series victories this season, including the first for his brother’s young team. Coincidentally, that win at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway came in the same car #009, which he’ll be driving this weekend.  

 

In Busch’s previous attempt at this facility, he traveled from the Charlotte, N.C. NASCAR All-Star event, and missed the qualifying time for Iowa’s spring Nationwide Series race. Support driver Drew Herring qualified the Richmond-win car in the 31st position for Busch, who upon arrival race day, took over driving duties, led two laps and reached a fifth-place finishing position, the team’s third top-five finish of the season.

 

After last week’s strong run in Indianapolis (Ind.) with team owner-driver Kyle Busch, who paced the field with fastest lap times in both practice sessions and during the race, the first-year Nationwide Series team chose to bring chassis #009 back for a fourth attempt at the company’s second career win.

 

Crew chief Mike Beam also looks to improve his Iowa Speedway career-best finishing position of third, hoping this week’s U.S. Cellular 250 presented by the Enlist Weed Control System, is a good luck charm the second time around.

 

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