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They werent able to capitalie on stage points. Its good to get
the regularseason Championship, to get that 15 extra bonus
points for the Playoffs. Thats what we set out to do.
A Cup Championship still remained the ultimate goal.
In the Round of 8, Aric Almirola had Buschs fate in his hands
and nearly ended the season for the eventual Champion.
Almirola sent Busch to a 14th place nish, but Busch lived to
ght on. In all, Busch had 27 top10s in 2019.
Throughout his life, Busch has made success look relatively
easy. He was an honor student even as his childhood activities
always included time behind the wheel.
At age 16, he had already begun to piue the interest of
NASCAR car owners which led to his debut on the Truck Series
in August of 2001. He would start that race 23rd and nish ninth
for RoushFenway Racing.
Before he even turned 18, Busch had his rst contract with
Hendrick Motorsports, and he won his rst ARCA Series race at
Nashville from the pole position. He didnt have to wait long for
his second win either. That came one week later.
After his birth certicate showed his age as 18, Busch entered
the Nationwide Series and yet again uickly became a
force. He nished second at Charlotte in his very rst start, and
he ended the year with backtoback secondplace nishes and
three top10s.
The next season, Buschs rst win in a NASCAR Series with a
May 2004 win at Richmond. Four more victories at Charlotte,
Kentucky, Reilly and Michigan would soon follow.
Since proving his dedication to winning, Buschs inuence is now
felt through his work with Kyle Busch Motorsports. uickly, that
team became a contender in the GANDER RV UTDRS
Truck Series. The team holds the records for most career
wins 68 and most wins in a single season 14 which
came in 2014.
ver the last half decade, the team has
produced two Championship winners in
Erik ones in 2015 and Christopher Bell
two years later.
The team works out of a cutting
edge 77,000 suare foot facility or
headuarters where they prepare
their Toyota Tundras. Inside, a
homage to Buschs personal
success. His No. 18 MMs car in which he won the 2015 title
sits for adoring fans to view.
In 2010, Busch married Samantha Sarcinella on New Years
Eve. The reception and party went until one in the morning.
Sarcinella conrmed that Busch got his biggest win on his
wedding day.
The ceremony was really traditional and beautiful and simple,
she told the Charlotte bserver. Since it was a holiday and we
had so many people ying in from different areas, we said, lets
make this an allday event.
Busch had proposed to his love just before the 2010
Daytona race in the living room of the mobile home that the
couple inhabits while they are on the road. Samantha now
helps run the Kyle Busch Foundation and the retail side of
Kyle Busch Motorsports.
Since their marriage, Samantha and Kyle Busch have
started the Bundle of oy Fund which advocates for Infertility
Awareness and Support and tries to help remove the nancial
barriers that couples face when they want to start a family.
The funds website features the pictures of 21 beautiful children
born into the world thanks to the monetary of the fund.
Samantha is even creating her own empire through the fund,
blogging and beauty. As her website states, she is an example
of the modern day boss babe.
Kyle and Samantha have reached the pinnacle in their worlds
while candidly talking about their own struggles with starting
a family. The couple told NBC Sports that they used invitro
fertiliation when they had their son Brexton in 2015. Three
years later, Samantha suffered a miscarriage while pregnant
with their second child.
Its a topic that Samantha has discussed now on her social
media and the show, Racing ives, but she hopes her advice
falls on the ears of young hopeful mothers who need to hear her
friendly advice.
Trying to have a baby was the hardest thing Ive ever done in
life. hen I was 26, we decided that we wanted to start a family.
You could handle one, two, three, four negative pregnancy
tests. But by that ninth, 10th, 11th one, thats when its hard. Its
hard to pick up the pieces again.
e started the fertility drugs. They dont tell you too much
about the side effects of them. You turn insane. Nobodys
telling you whats happening to yourself as a woman and