Busch the man to beat for title
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NASCAR points leader Kurt Busch is all smiles as he walks back to his garage after winning the pole position on Friday at the Homestead Miami International Speedway in Homestead, Fla.
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The race for the Champ Car drivers&#39; title is going to Mexico City in two weeks. Bruno Junqueira won yesterday&#39;s Lexmark Indy 300 ahead of teammate Sebastien Bourdais, stalling Bourdais&#39; run to the 2004 championship
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Ryan Newman must be close to perfect the rest of the way to win the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series championship, and he took a step by earning the pole yesterday at Martinsville Speedway.
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Acknowledging the reputation he had earned as an aggressive young driver with a penchant for wrinkling a few car fenders and ruffling a few feathers along the way, Kurt Busch yesterday seemed to come of age.
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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 came to Homestead-Miami Speedway with more in mind than just winning the NASCAR Nextel Cup championship.
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He leads the Nextel Cup standings despite struggling in the first two races of the championship chase. Should he get through three hours of tailgating unscathed Sunday during the EA Sports 500 at Talladega
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HOMESTEAD, Florida (Ticker) -- Kurt Busch overcame a variety of setbacks, including a wheel falling off his car early in Sunday&#39;s Ford 400, to clinch the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
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Kurt Busch came to Homestead-Miami Speedway with more in mind than just winning the NASCAR Nextel Cup championship. &quot;I was just joking in the prequalifying interview that we needed a pole to get into the Bud
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The latest champion, and possibly the most convincing.
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HAMPTON, Ga. -- The Nextel Cup championship playoff got a major shakeup Sunday when points leader Kurt Busch went out with a blown engine early in the race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
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As long as Busch finishes ahead of his four challengers at Homestead on Sunday, the championship is his. Because of bonus points and a staggered points structure, trying to crunch the
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Rookie driver Denny Hamlin hopes to hold his own against the veterans and take the final spot in NASCAR's Chase for the Nextel Cup.
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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.
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Since he has nothing to lose, Martin Truex Jr. says, he can go all-out to win. Truex, 24, will finish his first season of Busch competition Saturday at Homestead in the final race of the year.
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Kurt Busch got his first big break in NASCAR by winning a 1999 talent audition nicknamed &quot;The Gong Show.&quot; He was selected from dozens of unknown, young race drivers to work for one of the sport&#39;s most famous team owners, Jack Roush.
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Kurt Busch has been doing everything right in his bid for his first Nextel Cup championship. He now has one big hurdle to clear entering today's Ford 400.