No. 3 Kyle Busch
Kyle Busch won the Cup race at Phoenix International Raceway in November 2005, when he was driving the No. 5 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports.
Bringing a new car to Phoenix in nothing new. He's done it a few times in his career and the results have been good more often than not.
“From our races here last year, our first race I was in the No. 5 car we ran OK here," said Busch, driver of the No. 18 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. "We weren't great, but we were decent. The fall race … I don't remember the spring race might have been worse. One of the races last year we didn't run too terribly bad. I have a good sense of what this track likes and how you have to be able to race this place. Coming back this year with the No. 18 car, practice went really well. The test we had out here was pretty good. We unloaded somewhat similar to that and we feel like we have a car that is hopefully capable of a top-five starting position. We'll go get them Saturday night.”
Busch rebounded at Texas Motor Speedway last week, finishing third after struggling at Martinsville Speedway the week before. He was 38th at Martinsville.
“I'm always excited to get back out to the West Coast. It's pretty close to where I'm from," said Busch, who grew up in Las Vegas. "The weather and atmosphere … it's just cool to come back out the Phoenix again. I have Cup win here and a (Nationwide) and a truck win here. For us it's good to get back out here and get back to hopefully our winning ways.”