Kurt Busch Wants to Go Fast
NASCAR driver Kurt Busch found himself without a sponsor going into this season and, determined to fight his way back to the top, decided that Talladega Nights’ Ricky Bobby should be his new role model. Busch partnered with the Armed Forces Foundation to promote PTSD awareness and used that charitable connection to convince Will Ferrell and the Sony Pictures to allow him to drive a copy Ricky’s comeback car from the comedy classic at Talladega’s Aaron’s 499 race.
Busch dates AFF director Patricia Driscoll and they came up with an idea to promote both his comeback and her awesome charity work. The driver rode with a stuffed cougar in his backseat during the race and added the original cougar image to the hood, the team “Me” logo on the side and “I Wanna Go Fast” on the back. In addition, the trunk lid included a message to text AFF to 50555 to donate $5 to the cause.
Reese Bobby would tell you that Busch finished last in the race but the NASCAR records say that he came in 20th.
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Although I’m not a big Kurt Busch fan, I do appreciate and support his efforts to promote PTSD awareness.
Kurt Busch has no sponsor because he is a loser… Who would want to sponsor a NO CLASS IDIOT, his little brother is worse.…
Kurt and Kyle have all the necessary skills in the world to be top drivers. It is to bad that their social skills have crippled their efforts to get to the levels of the other class acts of Nascar. Properly equipped and managed, they could be a class act. I was glad to see Kurts efforts on behalf of our wounded heroes. I think the Ricky Bobby car was the class of Taledega.
A few years ago when Kurt broke into the NASCAR top ranks I thought he was a pretty stand-up guy and I liked him. Unfortunately, as time wore on, he and his moron brother showed their character deficiencies in spite of their great driving talents. He has shown his true self and bigtime sponsors and topflight racing organizations don’t need his kind of turmoil. Kyle will sooner or later follow in Kurt’s footsteps to oblivian