No. 5 Kyle Busch

Yikes! Kyle Busch went from first to fifth in week after finishing 38th in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway.
But help is on the way.
Busch heads to Texas with the same car that won the Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Atlanta and Texas are very similar, both high-banked, 1.5-mile ovals.
“I think Texas is going to be a fast place," said Busch, driver of the No. 18 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. "It’s going to be a little bit different getting in and coming up off the corners than Atlanta because there isn’t as much banking at Texas getting into the corner. For me, Texas has always been a tricky place. I’ve never really run well there and been confident there. We’ve been getting better in recent years in the Cup car and have had some success in the Craftsman Truck Series and the Nationwide Series. I get a little more comfortable each time I get back there in the Cup car and hopefully we can get the race car close to my liking when we get there this weekend.”
Busch has two top-five finishes in six career Cup races at Texas. But his most recent race at Texas produced a 37th place and he finished 40th in his first Cup race at Texas in 2005. And even though Busch won the race at Atlanta, he said that might not guarantee another good run at Texas.
"Every track is different," Busch said. "You can’t expect to run well at one track and have it translate over to another, no matter how close the configuration is. We’ve just got to be able go out there in each practice session and try to make the car better.”