Kurt Busch returning to the rhythm before the champions race

The 2004 Nascar Cup champion, Kurt Busch, will align with the US teammate. UU. Travis Pastrana in the 2025 champions race set for March 7 to 8 within Sydney, the Australia Accor stadium. Busch’s full -time Nascar Cup race came to an end in 2023 after he suffered severe brabral shock during the rating in Pocono during the summer of 2022. Last week, Busch received a medical authorization to start competing in motor races again.

“It has been incredible these last two months, preparing for the champions race,” Busch said. “Fredrik Johnson, the main guy in the champions race, called me and told him that I had some things that I had to solve to participate. And once I could do that, it was as if a cloud was lifted and the blue skies were opened and it has been incredible to return to the rhythm of making phone calls again to places like Alpinestars to get a new driver suit and update all my security equipment. I am looking at helmet, gloves, shoes and then hitting the track.

“I have been doing a few days of track in Arizona and some days of track in North Carolina. Great friends have been at all times. Friends like Paul Tracy, the old Indycar corridor, helped me. I returned and spent time at the Old Radford Racing School. It is in Chandler, Arizona and I went there in the 1990s to work on my road racing skills. Therefore, it has been fun to return and greet some of the boys and meet new people.

“Now we are here at Charlotte Motor Speedway. I am here with Travis Pastrana and we were on his skid pad. I’ve also been working on the training process with rally cars. We have been working on all launches, total traction and then launching cars in the corners. “

A former Supercross champion, motocross champion, gold medalist of X Games of various times and, for many experts, the most recognized and consummated sports athlete of Evel Knievel, Busch is fueled for a team with the high flying travis Pastrana, the ROC.

“Travis Pastrana is a good friend of mine, and of all the different paths that we have walked in motoring, here is another one that we are crossing. And every time we have crossed among us, it has been a lot of fun and there is an education that we both talk to each other. We talk about what we have happened and what we have done and where we are going.

“The call came through Fredrik Johnson and the champions race and was recruiting the best talent that could be available. I mean, it’s always difficult for Fredrik. It has one of the most difficult works in motoring. He has the pedigree of the champions race. He has been around the world for all the different sands and stadiums. But to find people who have the time in their schedule and who are the best of the best, that is a bridge that is difficult to cross. You have to use some of the runners and runners that you have aligned to recruit others. It was then that I got the phone call of Travis Pastrana and I said: ‘Brother! I remember that we were strong together in Miami a few years ago when we were in the US team.

“Now that we are together for this race, we have really focused a laser in our past years together and what it went well and what went wrong and what can we go there and apply in 2025 to take home that great trophy. The champions race will be in the asphalt. With my asphalt experience, different style cars, rear wheel, wheel, front engine, rear engine, sequential change boxes, whatever, I feel like travis and I have all the marked boxes, and we will enter this with our eyes ready and focused and not open and intimidated by the situation.

“I have a second place trophy of the Cup of Nations, and I want to advance more and do everything possible to win it in general. Every year you go, you must apply a better position for you and the equipment that surrounds you. I am in that place right now. It’s amazing to see this. And with due respect, yes, these are the names against which you want to compete. This type of atmosphere around the champions race, you cannot wrap yourself in who you face. You are facing yourself, that car and that track. It cannot be intimidated by who is around him or believes he can win easily. I want to have fun very well, a good success and be between the camaraderie to be in the paddock with other runners and the energy of the stadium and the crowd.

“There will be that feeling of the old school of being on guard for practice sessions, racing sessions and media sessions and simply mixing and having fun with all the boys who have done so for so many years, and also with the locals in Australia. It has been fantastic. This is not at that full level of the Cup series. I am not competing in Circuit of the Americas in Austin this weekend for Nascar, but it is great to get my plane ticket and address Australia and get on the seat and drive with the best of the best. “