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AVONDALE, Ariz. – In a madcap final-lap ending that saw numerous cars spinning and crashing, a resilient Kurt Busch drove his heavily damaged Furniture Row/Farm American Chevrolet — that was shooting out flames — to an eighth-place finish in Sunday’s AdvoCare 500 Sprint Cup Series race. The finish was the second straight eighth-place result for Busch, giving Furniture Row Racing its best back-to-back finishes in the team’s history. Busch, who was competing in his fifth race with Furniture Row Racing, found himself right in the middle of a multicar wreck on the final lap of the green-white-checkered overtime finish at Phoenix International Raceway. Though his No. 78 Chevrolet took a severe hit by Greg Biffle’s No. 16 car and then proceeded to tag the concrete wall, Busch somehow managed to get to the finish line. Busch left his mangled car on the track and was driven by the track’s ambulance to the infield medical care center where he was checked out and released. “That was a wild en...
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