Kurt Busch summed his debut with Furniture Row Racing during Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint Cup series Bank of America 400 in one sentence.
“It was an uneventful race, but an eventful weekend,” Busch said.
The 2004 Sprint Cup champion made the jump from Phoenix Racing to Furniture Row signing to race for the team for 2013 several weeks prior to Charlotte. Both teams and Busch agreed that he could step into the No. 78 Chevy prior to seasons end in order to get experience for next season. The move left Furniture Row driver Regan Smith without a ride, but not for long as the Phoenix Racing team signed Smith.
Smith wouldn’t start in the No. 51 Phoenix Chevy Saturday night as he was tapped to substitute for Dale Earnhardt Jr. who was forced to the sidelines with the lingering effects of a concussion. Phoenix called on AJ Allmendinger, who was recently reinstated by NASCAR after failing a test for a banned substance this past July. MORE>>>
Greg is the author of "The Nuts and Bolts of NASCAR: The Definitive Viewers' Guide to Big-Time Stock Car Auto Racing" and has been published in major publications across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a contributor to Chicken Soup for the NASCAR Soul, published in 2010, and the Christmas edition in 2016. He wrote as the NASCAR, Formula 1, Auto Reviews and National Veterans Affairs Examiner for Examiner.com and has appeared on Fox News. He holds a BS degree in communications, a Masters degree in psychology and is currently a PhD candidate majoring in psychology. He is currently the weekend Motorsports Editor for Autoweek.
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