KYLE BUSCH M&M’S Team Report Round 34 of 36 – AAA Texas 500 – Texas Car No.: 18 – M&M’S Toyota Camry Teammates: Denny Hamlin – No. 11 Toyota Camry; Daniel Suarez – No. 19 Toyota Camry; Erik Jones – No. 20 Toyota Camry At-Track PR Contact: Bill Janitz, True Speed Communication (704-875-3388 ext. 803 or [email protected]) Primary Team Members: Driver: Kyle Busch Crew Chief: Adam Stevens Hometown: Las Vegas Hometown: Portsmouth, Ohio Car Chief: Nate Bellows Team Engineer: Ben Beshore Hometown: Fairfax, Vermont Hometown: Hometown York, Pennsylvania Engine Specialist: Mike Johnson Spotter: Tony Hirschman Hometown: Bozeman, Montana Hometown: Northampton, Pennsylvania Over-The-Wall Crew Members/Pit Support: Gas Man: Matt Tyrrell Front Tire Changer: Cam Waugh Hometown: Fort Lauderdale, Florida Hometown: Johnstown, Colorado Jackman: T.J. Ford Rear Tire Changer: Jeff Cordero Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina Hometown: Salem, Connecticut Pit Support: Brian Eastland Tire Carrier: Joe Crossen Hometown: New Bern, North Carolina Hometown: Salisbury, North Carolina Road Crew Members: Truck Drivers: Brendan Greene and Jamie Price Tire Specialist: Jon Desrocher Hometowns: Midland, North Carolina, and Choteau, Montana, respectively Hometown: Plattsburgh, New York Mechanic: Wesley Lape Team Engineer: Tyler Allen Hometown: Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania Hometown: Seattle, Washington Ride and Handling Engineer: Chris Chase Rear End Mechanic: Chris Jones Hometown: Nichols, New York Hometown: Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia Interior Mechanic: Todd Foster Hometown: Birmingham, Alabama Notes of Interest: · The AAA Texas 500 will mark Kyle Busch’s 496th career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series start and his 26th NASCAR Cup Series start at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. · Busch has career totals of 50 wins, 30 poles, 181 top-five finishes, 267 top-10s and 15,712 laps led in 495 career Cup Series races. His most recent Cup Series win came last month at Richmond (Va.) Raceway. Busch’s most recent pole, the 31st of his career, came last weekend at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway. · Busch has three wins, 12 top-five finishes and 13 top-10s and has led a total of 864 laps in 25 career Cup Series starts at Texas. Busch’s average Texas finish is 11.6. -more- M&M’S Racing – 2018 Fall Texas Team Report Page Two · Three-Peat: Busch’s consecutive wins in April at Texas, Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway and Richmond marked only the 25th time in NASCAR’s modern era (1972 to present) that a driver won three consecutive races. Nine of the 23 previous times a driver won three consecutive races in a season, that driver has gone on to win the championship. Before 2018, Busch was the most recent driver to win three in a row – in 2015, when he went on to score his first and, so far, only championship. Fellow championship contender Kevin Harvick accomplished the feat earlier this season prior to Busch’s hot streak. Brad Keselowski joined the group with wins at the recent events Darlington (S.C.) Raceway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Las Vegas Motor Speedway. This marks the first time in NASCAR history that three different drivers have won three consecutive races in the same season. · 15,000 Plus: With his impressive 377 of 400 laps led in the Coca-Cola 600 in May, Busch topped the 15,000-laps-led mark in NASCAR’s top series and became just the 10th driver in NASCAR history to do so. · 50 Career Cup Series Wins: With his Cup Series win at Richmond, the 50th points-paying win of his career, Busch is now tied for 11th on the all-time wins list with NASCAR Hall of Famers Ned Jarrett and Junior Johnson. Next up for Busch on the all- time win list is Lee Petty, who had 54 wins during his Hall of Fame career. With his 40th Cup Series victory at Bristol in August 2017, Busch became the fourth-youngest driver to reach 40 Cup Series wins at 32 years, 109 days, behind only Richard Petty, Jeff Gordon and Herb Thomas. · All 23: With his win at Charlotte in May, Busch has now won a Cup Series race at all 23 tracks at which the series competes, becoming the first driver in the modern era to win at every track where he has made at least one start. Of the 23 different tracks where Busch has won, he has multiple wins at 12 of them. · All-Time JGR Wins Leader: With his Brickyard 400 win in July 2016, Busch passed Tony Stewart for most all-time Cup Series wins for JGR. Busch now has 46 wins for JGR to Stewart’s 33 following his most recent win at Richmond, along with besting Stewart’s Cup Series career win total. · 193 and Counting: Busch enters Texas with 193 career wins among NASCAR’s top three divisions – Cup (50), Xfinity (92) and Truck (51) – following his Cup Series win last month at Richmond. -TSC- .