Who's the better driver?

[FenderBumper]

Comparing the stats of 2 drivers while competing for the same organization seems like a good way to start an argument, so here goes.

Everyone knows Kurt Busch won a championship for Jack Roush, then moved on to Penske racing for the next 6 years. Here are his stat totals for those 6 years.

Races: 216
Win total: 10 (4.6% win average)
Best yearly win total: 2 (4 times)
Top 5's: 46 (21.3%)
Top 10's: 92 (42.5%)
Championships: 0
Full year CC's: 3

Brad )) came to Penske for 3 races at the end of the 2009 season. His first Full season with Penske came in 2010 with his own CC, so I wont count those first 3 runs test runs. His first career cup win was with Phoenix racing, and it was also James Finches only cup.

Races: 99
Win total: 7 (7% win average)
Best yearly win total: 4 wins and counting.
Top 5's: 21 (21.2%)
Top 10's: 32 (32.3%)
Championships: 0
Full years CC's: 2

It looks pretty equal to me. Kurts numbers dropped off a bit after leaving Roush, which seemed to be a huge mistake in his career. Brads numbers are very simular to Kurts first 3 full seasons at Roush. So what gives?

These 2 have another racing organization in common. In 6 tries with Phoenix racing, Brad scored a win, 3 top 10's, 1 DNQ and a finishing average of 15.4

Kurt has 26 starts for Phoenix racing this year, and has scored no wins, 2 top 10's, 5 DNF's and a average finish of 24.5

 

[Greg]

I voted for Brad. In the purest sense Kurt probably has more talent. But as for overall performance I would choose Brad believing he would drive better over the entire season.
Kurt let's the chip on his shoulder destroy team chemistry, while Brad is always thinking and improving himself and the team.
I did not consider the marketability of either when writing the obviously brilliant and humble post.

 

[FenderBumper]

greg, that was a brilliant post.

I agree. Brad doesn't aheel a car the way Kurt does, but he's smart and sets his car up for the race he's racing. Brad also has some of the best car control I've seen in a longtime. He knows how to keep it off the wall often when things go wrong.

 

[MRM]

Not to mention Brad is younger than Kurt when KB jumped to Penske.

 

[FenderBumper]

Not to mention Brad is younger than Kurt when KB jumped to Penske.

true. He also raced his first year with Jay Guy as his CC. Nice, guy, but hardly ready for the bigtime. If you look at just he and Paul Wolfe, their winning percentage in their 63 races together is 11.1

 

[Johali]

I voted for Bad Brad so it wouldnt piss you off, you would start poking me in the eyes.

 

[FenderBumper]

I voted for Bad Brad so it wouldnt piss you off, you would start poking me in the eyes.

Smart cro......Gator.

I should have made that a poll choice. "I vote for FenderBumpers boy Kez just so I don't get my eyes poked"

 

[Jeffrey00]

i voted for Kurt, because IMHO it is true.

 

[FenderBumper]

i voted for Kurt, because IMHO it is true.