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Driver Name: Kurt Busch
Car #: 41
Make: Ford
Season Debut: 2001 (First-Full Season)
Number of Championships: 1
# of Career Starts: 612
# of Career Poles: 22
# of Career Wins: 29
# of Career Top 5s: 131
# of Career Top 10s: 258
# of Career DNFs: 67
# of Career laps led: 8,874
Career Average Finish: 16.6
Career Average Start: 15.0
# of 2017 Wins: 1
# of 2017 Top 5s: 6
# of 2017 Top 10s: 15
# of 2017 Poles: 1
# of 2017 DNFs: 7
# of 2017 laps led: 16
2017 Average Finish: 16.5
2017 Average Start: 11.8
2017 Fantasy Recap - I wouldn't say that 2017 was a bad year for Kurt Busch as he was pretty good at times, but it was an interesting one to say the least. Personally, I was never attractive to him as a fantasy option. He just gave me a bad vibe overall. It didn't hope, he never really was that consistent for more than a couple races. He would have a solid race and then follow it up with a couple bad ones. So you never knew, if you could trust. There was a stench later in the season, where he started to fire off some strong finishes. I remember that because soon as I jumped on the bandwagon, he shit the bed on me. He posted 6 Top 5 finishes, 15 Top 10 finishes and 16.5 average finish. Those kind of numbers say it all from a driver in his level of equipment. He did score a win, but it was pretty obvious most of the year that Kurt and the 41 team was off. They rarely showed the speed to legit contend for top 5 finishes on a regular basis. From Bristol to Richmond, he posted three straight top 5 finishes. That was by far his best three-race span of the season. During the season, he only posted back-to-back top 10 finishes two other times. Something even more scary? In the final 10 races of the season, he only had 2 finishes BETTER than 19th place. So he finished 19th or worse in 8 of his final 10 races in 2017! It was a up and down year in 2017 for Kurt Busch and the 41 team!
Strong Tracks - Cali, Sonoma, Phoenix and Richmond
Weak Tracks - Martinsville and Las Vegas
2018 Fantasy Outlook - It is so hard to tell what to expect from Kurt Busch in 2018, but I would have to say that he is due for some improvements. In 2017, he posted one of his worst years as driver. Statistically, he only had two worst seasons as driver in last 9 seasons or so. Yeah, that's pretty bad. I think SHR was behind for most of the year as well. We never seen SHR really catch up to the competition and be on that same level. Obviously them switching to Ford had a lot to do with that though. So with a year at Ford, I would think they would all be better in 2018. In fact, I am banking on that to happen. Kurt will have a new man on the pitbox in 2018 as well. I think that change will do nothing but good for Kurt. Sometimes change is good, we see it all the time with driver/crew combinations. Hopefully it works out well for him, too.
*All stats are from DriverAverages.com
Twitter - @JeffNathans18
Driver Name: Kurt Busch
Car #: 41
Make: Ford
Season Debut: 2001 (First-Full Season)
Number of Championships: 1
# of Career Starts: 612
# of Career Poles: 22
# of Career Wins: 29
# of Career Top 5s: 131
# of Career Top 10s: 258
# of Career DNFs: 67
# of Career laps led: 8,874
Career Average Finish: 16.6
Career Average Start: 15.0
# of 2017 Wins: 1
# of 2017 Top 5s: 6
# of 2017 Top 10s: 15
# of 2017 Poles: 1
# of 2017 DNFs: 7
# of 2017 laps led: 16
2017 Average Finish: 16.5
2017 Average Start: 11.8
2017 Fantasy Recap - I wouldn't say that 2017 was a bad year for Kurt Busch as he was pretty good at times, but it was an interesting one to say the least. Personally, I was never attractive to him as a fantasy option. He just gave me a bad vibe overall. It didn't hope, he never really was that consistent for more than a couple races. He would have a solid race and then follow it up with a couple bad ones. So you never knew, if you could trust. There was a stench later in the season, where he started to fire off some strong finishes. I remember that because soon as I jumped on the bandwagon, he shit the bed on me. He posted 6 Top 5 finishes, 15 Top 10 finishes and 16.5 average finish. Those kind of numbers say it all from a driver in his level of equipment. He did score a win, but it was pretty obvious most of the year that Kurt and the 41 team was off. They rarely showed the speed to legit contend for top 5 finishes on a regular basis. From Bristol to Richmond, he posted three straight top 5 finishes. That was by far his best three-race span of the season. During the season, he only posted back-to-back top 10 finishes two other times. Something even more scary? In the final 10 races of the season, he only had 2 finishes BETTER than 19th place. So he finished 19th or worse in 8 of his final 10 races in 2017! It was a up and down year in 2017 for Kurt Busch and the 41 team!
Strong Tracks - Cali, Sonoma, Phoenix and Richmond
Weak Tracks - Martinsville and Las Vegas
2018 Fantasy Outlook - It is so hard to tell what to expect from Kurt Busch in 2018, but I would have to say that he is due for some improvements. In 2017, he posted one of his worst years as driver. Statistically, he only had two worst seasons as driver in last 9 seasons or so. Yeah, that's pretty bad. I think SHR was behind for most of the year as well. We never seen SHR really catch up to the competition and be on that same level. Obviously them switching to Ford had a lot to do with that though. So with a year at Ford, I would think they would all be better in 2018. In fact, I am banking on that to happen. Kurt will have a new man on the pitbox in 2018 as well. I think that change will do nothing but good for Kurt. Sometimes change is good, we see it all the time with driver/crew combinations. Hopefully it works out well for him, too.
*All stats are from DriverAverages.com
Twitter - @JeffNathans18
