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I have a rod in my leg too, so we were comparing scars and talking about the rehab. “It’s been moved from building to building over the years. In his childhood, his mother always tried to divert him from racing, handing him his ball, bat, and glove to coax him into baseball. For instance, when Kurt Busch wanted to start racing, Tom Busch sold a 1932 Ford for $32,000 and was able to take that money and invest in some race cars for Kurt to get started.

Saluting their father’s immeasurable contributions, Kurt and Kyle Busch paid their respects to him on Father’s Day this year.

Love ya 🏆”

Tom Busch himself hailed both his sons in an interview back in 2021: “I like it now a lot better than in the old days when I owned both cars. That’s how we always thought it should be, so we never really went right to the top and put them in a Late Model. He was going to (race).

Q: How nerve-racking is it as a mother watching your boy racing for the first time?
GB: Oh, it definitely was pretty scary.

You just go up the ladder. Presently, Busch is trying to snap a long winless streak going back to the first half of 2023. Busch’s short-track racing stint soon led both Kurt and Kyle Busch into racing – first Big Wheels in the yard and then Legends cars at short tracks. Running against local hobbyists sometimes three times older, Kurt and Kyle became desert devils on the track, pushing and shoving and making their way to victory lane, running through, past and sometimes into the competition along the way.
They took no prisoners, building reputations as very aggressive drivers and upstart kids who didn’t mind barking at their elders for shortcomings, real or perceived.

They started out with the Legend cars, the Modifieds and Street Stocks going all the way up to Late Models and things like that. He wrote, “Happy Father’s Day to the man who started it all! They are just determined. Now it’s finally in the shop and getting worked on.”
Tom Busch has watched his sons race and succeed at all levels.

People were telling us, “He’s got talent,” and we were like, “Yeah, yeah, yeah. They were in honors classes, so that kept them busy. “Two of them almost killed me, so there ain’t going to be a third one,” he said.
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Kurt and Kyle praise their father for building the foundation that made them stars in one of the world’s top auto racing series.
“I think a lot of credit goes to Tom Busch for giving us the opportunities throughout life to be in the positions that we’ve been in and to have two championship caliber sons each and every year go into championship contention, and hopefully one of us can win it,” Kyle said.
Kurt said his father’s instructions from the days when the family raced together still ring true.
“He saw one of the races where I had a problem with the car, and I didn't get the best finish possible,” Kurt said.

There were no spare parts. To have neither of them in the show that day was something that took some getting used to.”
Kurt was suspended by NASCAR for the first three races of the Sprint Cup season after a claim of domestic abuse by his ex-girlfriend, Patricia Driscoll. “They raced each other so hard. Gaye watched Kurt win the 2004 championship and was just as elated to see Kyle follow form by taking last year’s title.
Gaye Busch is a proud mom who can often be found at the race track cheering on her NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion sons Kurt, right, and Kyle.
With Mother’s Day coming on Sunday, LVMS Media Relations Manager Neal Reid spent some time on the phone with Gaye from her Mooresville, N.C., home to talk about her boys and what it’s like to be the mother of a pair of NASCAR Sprint Cup champions.
Q: What do you remember from the early days of the boys’ racing careers when you would all go to the Las Vegas-area short tracks on the weekends?
GB: We loaded up in our Suburban and went to the dirt track in Pahrump with the Dwarf cars when Kurt started.