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Ba lin’ Busch Brothers finish 1-2: Older brother Kurt wins Atlanta
PHOTOS BY JOE ADGIE
BY JOE ADGIE
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Kurt Busch burns it down, doing victory donuts after winning the Quaker State 400 at Atlanta. Quaker State 400 winner Kurt Busch shows off a piece of the Atlanta Motor Speedway’s old pavement in the post-race press conference. The piece of pavement was gifted to him by track management for winning the final race on the old track surface.
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urt Busch took a popular victory on Sunday, winning the Quaker State 400, the last race on the old Atlanta Motor Speedway. Busch won the race after a close duel with his younger brother Kyle, taking the lead for keeps on lap 236 of 260. The win marks
Kurt’s 33rd career NASCAR victory, and his first since taking a win at his home track in Las Vegas in late-September of last year. Kurt led the most laps in the race, leading 144 of the 260 laps. Kyle led 91 laps in the race. In the post-race press conference, Kurt spoke of how delighted
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he was to beat his younger brother on the race track, even if Kyle might not have been as pleased to have come out second. “The adrenaline gets going, the childhood memories come back, the best of the best in this business is in my mirror, and yet, I can giggle to myself sometimes and
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tell myself, ‘I taught him everything he knows,’ but it’s an awesome genuine battle between the two of us. We’ve had some friction over the years, but as we get older, we’ve gotten slightly a bit wiser, and we’ve raced each other with
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