One to watch for in the future

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Folks keep saying Kyle is better than brother Kurt........

Kyle Busch will be running select Busch Series events in Joe Nemechek's #87 NEMCO Chevy later this year. Nemechek will mentor Busch in preparation for his run at Rookie of the Year next season for Hendrick Motorsports. Busch won't be able to compete in the series until he turns 18 on May 2, but he plans to run the Apr. 11 Nashville ARCA race to gain experience at the 1.33-mile concrete track, which hosts two Busch races a year.

Busch's BGN series debut is set for the May 24th race at Lowe's Motor Speedway. He will attempt at least 6 races this year.

Gary DeHart will be Busch's crew chief.
 
I think he will make most of his races for sure, but, I can't wait to see what happens when he is actually racing with 42 other great drivers! I wonder how he will stack up against them!?!? :)
 
Now this is something I am waiting for with a lot of interest.Also heard that Kyle is better than Kurt.....though what that is based on,I'm not real sure.


A lot of Roush faithful were a little stung by Kyle's 'defection',but one can hardly blame the kid.Seems like their may be just a tiny bit of stress between Jack and the Busch brothers,though that may be played up just a bit.


And at least Jon Wood should stay the course,though this Carl Edwards[age 23] is still unknown to me.Any body know anything about him?
 
Carl is from the Midwest; from what I hear tell he highly regarded by the people who have worked with him in the limited time he has spent in NASCAR. A few facts and figures:

Over the past 10 years, Carl Edwards has accumulated two NASCAR sanctioned track championships, two Rookie-of-the-Year honors, and 56 feature wins while racing on both dirt and pavement tracks across the country. The drive and determination that Edwards has shown to this point in his career, promises to be a winning combination as he starts his first full season in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series with Roush Racing.

Racing is not new to Edwards. His father, Carl "Mike" Edwards, has been racing modified stock cars and USAC midgets for four decades accumulating over 200 feature wins at several Midwestern tracks. Carl Edwards, Jr., began his racing career in 1993 at the age of 13 driving four-cylinder mini-sprints.

In 1994, following his father's winning ways, Edwards won four feature races running on the tracks around Missouri and Illinois in the mini-sprint series. Throughout the 1995 and 1996 seasons he collected 14 additional feature wins in the mini-sprint series.

In 1997, Edwards switched to the dirt circuit to compete in the IMCA modified division. In 1998, he won Rookie-of-the-Year honors in the IMCA modified division at Capital Speedway in Holt Summit, Mo.

Edwards picked up the pace in 1999 as he competed in the Modified (two-barrel) division and the Dirt Late Model class at Capital Speedway. He gathered 13 feature wins in the Modified division on his way to the NASCAR Track Championship.

The NASCAR Weekly Racing Series was Edwards' next challenge in 2000. In the Pro-Modified (four-barrel) division, Edwards won 13 feature races, was Rookie-of-the-Year, and claimed the Capital Speedway Track Championship. Looking for additional challenges in 2000, he also competed in three Sportsman division races at California, Mo., and Capital Speedway - winning all three races.

Edwards won nine out of the 11 Baby Grand division races he competed in at Indianapolis, Tucson, Lebanon, Mo., and Moberly, Mo., in 2001. He also ran five of the seven USAC Silver Crown pavement series races. He competed at Richmond, Va., Indianapolis, Phoenix, and Irwindale, Calif. Continually gaining valuable experience, he achieved his best finish of 15th place at Richmond.

Edwards continued to compete in the USAC series in 2002, making eight starts. He also ran seven NASCAR Craftsman Truck races for MB Motorsports, where he earned a top-10 finish at Kansas.
 
Both Edwards and Wood look really good in the NCTS!

As for Kyle Busch, who knows? Gary DeHart will teach him a thing or two about the rule book :lol: Nemechek has some good Busch equipment. Should be interesting. But as Roush said I'm sure there will be a lot of broken hearts and broken cars along the way.

:cheers:
 
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