{"id":1909,"date":"2012-07-07T10:35:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T14:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2012-07-07T10:35:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T14:35:33","slug":"video-kurt-busch-wins-with-passion-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/07\/07\/video-kurt-busch-wins-with-passion-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Kurt Busch wins with Passion &amp; Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Kurt+Busch+Subway+Jalapeno+250+apXIgoPIozPl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kurt Busch, driver of the #1 Chevrolet, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Nationwide Series Subway Jalapeno 250 at Daytona International Speedway on July 6, 2012 in Daytona Beach, Florida. ( Source: Mike Ehrmann\/Getty Images North America) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kurt Busch drove his orange #1 car to victory lane in Friday&#8217;s NASCAR Nationwide race. Despite damage early in the race, Busch won the Subway Jalapeno 250 to record his first win for Phoenix Racing. Busch had won a race for his brothers Nationwide program, Kyle Busch Motorsports, earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Once he exited the car Busch exclaimed &#8220;We just won Daytona&#8221; the excitement was not loss as the driver let everyone know &#8220;It&#8217;s just passion and heart, that&#8217;s all I can give.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since being suspended for the weekend at Pocono, Busch has been on a role at all levels of NASCAR. It started with the driver wheeling a battered #1 car to third place in the Sprint Cup Series at Sonoma,\u00a0 and was followed by a second place finish in the Nationwide Series race at Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Busch will drive the #1 Sprint Cup Series car for Phoenix Racing during tonight&#8217;s Coke Zero 400. The car is also without sponsorship but maybe without heart and passion.<\/p>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Other notables<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Johanna Long recorded her best finish, a 12th place run in the ML Motorsports #70. Eric McClure in his first restrictorplate race since his crash at Talladega finished a season best 18th in the #14 Hefty Toyota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Busch drove his orange #1 car to victory lane in Friday&#8217;s NASCAR Nationwide race. Despite damage early in the race, Busch won the Subway Jalapeno 250 to record his first win for Phoenix Racing. Busch had won a race for his brothers Nationwide program, Kyle Busch Motorsports, earlier this year. Once he exited the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[214,327,372],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-eric-mcclure","8":"tag-johanna-long","9":"tag-kurt-busch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}