September 1, 2007

by Ron Felix

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Kyle Busch, never one to shy away from a question, said he's still ticked off at his brother Kurt for not admitting his part in the accident that took both drivers out of the Nextel Cup All-Star race in May.

"I haven't heard from Kurt and if he wants to spread things around the track, it's going to get pretty ugly, but I'm not looking forward to that," said Busch. "I think we'll be fine, we'll grow out of this eventually. I probably put more on myself because I haven't gotten him to admit that he was partly at fault, so that's basically why I've got this."

Brother Kurt still has a different view of what the situation is, but he wasn't in any mood to give little brother a free pass.

"The bonus I got for winning the Nextel Cup Championship, I guess I could loan him a million bucks," said Kurt Busch sarcastically. "That's something that he may be angry about. He did have a fast race car at the All-Star race, we were in position (to win) just like he was. Two brothers who commonly are thinking on the same page, we thought on the same page that evening. I was thinking, he's got a fast car, I've got to beat him and he's thinking I've got a fast car, I've got to beat him if I'm going to win this thing.

"We got together. I've watched that happen with different sets of brothers all throughout NASCAR racing," Kurt Busch continued. " If he were in trouble out on the track, I'd be the first one there to support him. I still feel that way. Brothers are prone to run into one another, that's what we do. Yet we can help each other 90% of the time, more than that, we can help each other 100% of the time.

"I helped him to almost a win in the Pepsi 400 at Daytona. He finished second behind Jamie McMurray, I was pushing him as hard as I could.

"I'm beyond it, I think he'll realize that shortly. He's just young, aggressive and he's fast. He knows he's fast, I've been in those same shoes, but you just need to look at the bigger picture some day."