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Oh brother! It took a track record to spoil Kurt Busch's day as his younger brother, Kyle, had a record qualifying run of 27.509 seconds 196.299mph in a Toyota at Texas Motor Speedway.
“Not too shabby of a day,” Kyle said. “It certainly didn't start out as good as we expected to -- but we made the most of the day. We used the whole tool box today.
“I can't say enough about everybody at Joe Gibbs Racing -- everyone at the shop that work so hard to give us great equipment to come to the race track with.
“I appreciate that Dave (Rogers, crew chief) and the guys dug in and worked hard today to give us a good piece for qualifying and I feel like we have a good piece for the race tomorrow night too
Brian Vickers set the track record of 196.235mph in 2006.
Kurt, the former Sprint Cup champ, lapped the mile-and-a-half oval in 27.595 seconds or 195.688mph in a Chevrolet. How did he feel about losing the pole to his brother?
“Track record is a small feather in the cap. The fact that it's Kyle I wouldn't want to lose to anybody other than him, but it is bitter because I did lose to him.”
This is the second time since the Busch brothers will start one-two. The first time was in 2009 at Las Vegas their home track.
A pair of Richard Petty Motorsports Fords, Aric Almirola and Marcos Ambrose were third and fourth respectively at 195.009 mph and 194.946 mph.
“Not too shabby of a day,” Kyle said. “It certainly didn't start out as good as we expected to -- but we made the most of the day. We used the whole tool box today.
“I can't say enough about everybody at Joe Gibbs Racing -- everyone at the shop that work so hard to give us great equipment to come to the race track with.
“I appreciate that Dave (Rogers, crew chief) and the guys dug in and worked hard today to give us a good piece for qualifying and I feel like we have a good piece for the race tomorrow night too
Brian Vickers set the track record of 196.235mph in 2006.
Kurt, the former Sprint Cup champ, lapped the mile-and-a-half oval in 27.595 seconds or 195.688mph in a Chevrolet. How did he feel about losing the pole to his brother?
“Track record is a small feather in the cap. The fact that it's Kyle I wouldn't want to lose to anybody other than him, but it is bitter because I did lose to him.”
This is the second time since the Busch brothers will start one-two. The first time was in 2009 at Las Vegas their home track.
A pair of Richard Petty Motorsports Fords, Aric Almirola and Marcos Ambrose were third and fourth respectively at 195.009 mph and 194.946 mph.