 Defending race champion Kyle Busch is looking forward to returning to the site of his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series road course win when the circuit makes stop number 17 at Infineon Raceway this weekend for the Toyota/Save Mart 350. Kyle Busch made significant improvements in his road course abilities last season when he won the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Mexico City in April before going on to win Cup Series events at Infineon and Watkins Glen.
When Kyle Busch arrived at Sonoma last June, he was able to score his first Sprint Cup Series road course win over David Gilliland and NASCAR road-racing ace Jeff Gordon, despite having an uncoperative car from the outset. "Winning the Toyota race at Infineon Raceway was really cool," said Kyle Busch, who earned Toyota its sixth win in the Sprint Cup Series and first in the Sonoma Valley. "For me, to be able to put myself on the list of road course winners, that was pretty special, too." Last year, Busch's weekend didn't start as well as it ended. The car was a handful from the beginning, and it seemed to only get worse. The Joe Gibbs Racing crew changed everything, and when the race started, Busch went from 30th to 13th before the first green-flag pit stop. "I'm not sure in my whole Cup career that I've had that big of a turnaround in how the car drove from when we unloaded to the end of the race," Busch said. "It really amazed me. A lot of credit just goes to Steve (Addington), Toyota, and the M&M's guys for sticking with me when we didn't have a great car to start the weekend. They just kept digging and believed in me and I believed in them."  MORE NASCAR NEWS
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