Kurt Busch scored his third straight top-10 finish by posting a ninth-place result in Sunday’s Sprint Cup Series season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The performance marked the first time that Furniture Row Racing has claimed three consecutive top-10 finishes.
Busch, who was competing in his sixth race with the Denver, Colo.-based team, was coming off a pair of eighth-place results in Texas and Phoenix.
"Finishing the season with three straight top-10s and four straight top-15s – you just can’t ask for much more in a short period of time together,” said Busch, who had an average finish of 10.0 in the last four races.
“We’ve made a tremendous amount of progress in the last six weeks and that gives all of us plenty of confidence heading into the offseason. We laid a strong foundation and I can’t thank the Furniture Row Racing guys enough for a job well done.”
The ninth-place result didn’t come easy for Busch, who started the race from the 26th position. He lost radi...
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November 19, 2012
