Busch Wins 2004 Nextel Cup Championship
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. (Sports Network) - Roush Racing's Kurt  Busch overcame a broken wheel and pit road confusion to capture  his first NASCAR Nextel Cup championship with a fifth-place  finish in Sunday's Ford 400 at the Homestead- Miami Speedway.
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LOUDON, N.H. -- It wasn't the first time Kurt Busch and his friend Ricky Craven crossed the finish line at about the same time, and Craven hopes it wasn't the last. A year ago at Darlington, Craven beat Busch in .002 seconds, the closest finish in NASCAR since electronic scoring came into use in 1993. Yesterday, as Busch was completing ...
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Carl Edwards' hard push to the finish line was slowed only by the caution flag. Edwards had the car to beat under green &#151; even if it was only a few laps at a time &#151; and that was enough to win the wreck-filled Busch Series race at Dover International Speedway on Saturday.
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Kevin Harvick, driving a Chevrolet, won the Daytona 500 after a close, accident-filled finish to the race on Sunday.
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Kyle Busch will leave Hendrick Motorsports after this season and is one of three Hendrick drivers in the Chase for the Nextel Cup.
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Kevin Harvick passes Mark Martin on the final lap Sunday in a wreck-filled finish to win the Daytona 500 and deny the 48-year-old Martin his first victory in NASCAR's biggest race.
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. - The Nextel Cup championship, after 35 races, winds down to one, and the same man who will start on the pole in todayâs Ford 400 occupies a similarly lofty perch in the title race.
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Juan Pablo Montoya spun teammate Scott Pruett to take the lead with eight laps left, then held off Denny Hamlin to win the Telcel-Motorola 200 for his first NASCAR Busch Series victory.
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Jimmie Johnson was the clear favorite to win last season's Nextel Cup championship, an easy pick after coming so very close so many times before.
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When Nextel Cup leader Kurt Busch was hit by engine failure at Atlanta Motor Speedway and finished 42nd last Sunday, the mishap tightened NASCAR&#39;s new 10-race championship format.
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No. 97 Ford, Roush Racing: Busch finished fifth at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway and, thanks to the 25-point penalty assessed to Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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(HOMESTEAD, Fla.) - Kurt Busch will start in great position on Sunday as he tries to wrap up the Nextel Cup drivers championship. Busch has won the pole for the season-ending Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway
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Kurt Busch has learned a lot during his four years in NASCAR&#39;s top series. He just hopes that knowledge is enough to carry him and his Roush Racing team to a Nextel Cup championship.
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Kurt Busch's busy week of celebration was capped Friday night with his acceptance of NASCAR's Nextel Cup championship trophy.
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Kurt Busch, last in the qualifying line and first in the NASCAR Nextel Cup points, waited out 54 other drivers Friday and then won the pole for the season-ending Ford 400, which will determine the 2004 champion.
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It will all be settled tonight. The field for the Chase for the NASCAR Nextel Cup will be set after the Chevy Rock 'n' Roll 400 at Richmond (Va.) International Speedway. Under the new points structure NASCAR adopted to determine the 2004 champion, the top 10 drivers in the Nextel Cup standings, plus any driver within 400 points of the ...
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Pressure? What pressure? Kurt Busch, last in the qualifying line and first in the NASCAR Nextel Cup points, waited out 54 other drivers Friday and then won the pole for the season-ending Ford 400, which will determine the 2004 champion.