JockBio: Kurt Busch Facts

	Kurt Busch — Facts
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Kurt’s 2004 championship was the closest in the history of NASCAR.
Kurt led all but one of the ’04 season’s last 10 events at one time or another, and finished in the Top 10 nine times.
Kurt's 2004 title was the second straight for Ford. The last time Ford won two straight NASCAR championships was in 1968-69, when David Pearson was the top driver twice in a row.
Kurt won $5.2 million as NASCAR’s 2004 champion.
Kurt hasn’t made many friends in NASCAR. In a 2006 poll by GQ Magazine, he finished behind Barry Bonds and Terrell Owens as the third least-liked athlete.
After Kurt won in 2006 at Bristol, he got out of his car and made pretend snow angels on the infield. It had snowed at the track a few days earlier.
When Kurt’s engine blew in Atlanta and Jimmie Johnson won the race, NASCAR conspiracy theorists claimed it was the organization’s way of tightening up the season-ending Nextel Chase.
Kurt once drew the ire of the fans when he described Jimmy Spencer as a “loveable loser.”
Kurt graduated from high school with a 3.6 GPA.

David Pearson, 1991 Maxx