Just What Happened To Kurt Busch?

Kurt Busch may have finished 11th in the Chase for the Championship, but at one point Kurt Busch was the hottest driver in NASCAR. He started off the 2010 year with 5 Top 5 finishes before winning the All-Star Race followed by the Coca Cola 600 and became the first man since Kasey Kahne back in 2008 to pull the feat off, but the question is what happened?

[media-credit name=”Brad Keppel” align=”alignleft” width=”300″][/media-credit]Busch actually had some more success. He finished 6th and 3rd respectively in his next two races, but somewhere along the line the lucky charm must have fallen out the window. He still managed to gather up the 10th most amount of points out of the 36 races run, but that is not much of a difference. Over the next 21 races he finished outside of the Top 10 in 13 of those. He finished outside of the Top 10 62% of the time in those final 21 races. If Busch wants to contend again he must improve his numbers.

Is there a problem with Kurt Busch? That is a possibility. Both of the Busch brothers can be hard to work with at one time or another and his tendency to let his emotions get the best of him certainly doesn’t make the body shop any happier, but crew chief Steve Addington won 8 races with his younger brother in 2008! In my opinion, it could be a problem with Busch’s attitude. If you ever listen to Busch’s in-car audio if something is going wrong, he is almost always negative and putting down his crew! This is a problem as well for Dale Earnhardt Jr. The crew wants to know ways to fix the problem, not how much they suck and how mad Busch is at them. Morale is an issue and Busch needs to be more courteous.

Both Kurt and Kyle are very much alike. Kurt tries to do the mature act, but when he is under pressure it doesn’t always pan out. If any of you want any evidence of my claims, you can watch this video,

This kind of attitude will absolutely NOT win you a championship. Period. No matter how good you are. You need your pit crew to win a championship. Like a good NFL team, defense wins championships.