With high expectations entering the 2011 season, Kurt Busch is well positioned to compete for his second NASCAR Cup Series title and the first for Penske Racing. Busch, the 2004 NASCAR Sprint Cup champion, this year moves to a new car, the No. 22 Penske Racing Dodge Charger, with sponsorship from Shell/Pennzoil. At age 32, Busch has 22 victories, 80 top-five and 153 top-10 Cup Series finishes to go along with his Cup championship.
Busch, who also has an IROC title on his impressive resume, certainly skyrocketed to the top of the stock car racing world early in his career and he's been able to maintain a high level of performance since he burst onto the scene. Busch joined Penske in 2006. His best season with the organization came in 2009, when he finished fourth in points, posting two victories to go along with 10 top-five and 21 top-finishes behind the wheel of the “Blue Deuce” No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge. In 2010, Busch swept both the Sprint All-Star Event and the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, making for a big month of May.
Earned a new level of fame recently by winning televisions Dancing With the Stars. On the track in 2007 he set a record for the most poles in a season. Helio became the first driver to win the Indianapolis 500 twice in a row since Al Unser. His trademark victory celebration of climbing the fence has become popular in all forms of racing.
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Shell Oil Company and Penske Corporation unveiled their 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and IZOD IndyCar Series car line-up along with important driver details for the 2011 season. Officials from both companies met with members of the media at the Penske-Wynn Ferrari dealership at the Wynn Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nev., to unveil both the #22 Shell-Pennzoil Dodge that Kurt Busch will pilot throughout the 2011 season and the #3 Shell V-Power-Pennzoil Ultra Dallara/Honda that three-time Indianapolis 500 champion Helio Castroneves will pilot at the Indianapolis 500 in May 2011. Read all about it here!