Young Gun: In the Driver's Seat with #97

Against all expectations, Kurt Busch has emerged as the front-runner in the new batch of NASCAR hotshots, exploding onto the scene in 2002 to nab four wins and twelve top-five finishes and end up third overall in the points standing by year's end. And the twenty-five-year-old racing phenom is only getting better. Behind the wheel of the #97 Rubbermaid Ford, Kurt is pegged by most track insiders as not only the one to watch every Sunday, but as a future winner of the overall Winston Cup championship. Now fans can ride shotgun and get taken along for the ride of Kurt's life from growing up in a close-knit family in Las Vegas and the Carolinas, to his debut driving a Dwarf car at age fifteen, to the startling success of his sophomore NASCAR season and the friendly rivalry he still shares with his younger brother, Kyle, who also races in NASCAR.Rick Houston is the author of 'Young Gun: In the Driver's Seat with #97', published 2003 under ISBN 9780451211385 and ISBN 0451211383.