Kurt Busch Time Quotations

I believe they're more behind me now than we were this time last year, knowing that this is a unique opportunity -- A, to defend our championship and, B, to get the most out of 2005,

Frankly, I hope it does. They've run it all year long. It's been a matter of time before things were revealed.

Martin said. ''That's the way it looks today. It's a real tight time right now filling Cup seats for '06. I haven't seen it like this in a long time. I think that '07 will be much more free. Somehow or another, everyone in the business was committed for '06.

You just have to make sure you do things as close to normal as you can and not get too excited because it is 10 races. If you don't get off to a great start it's not the end of it, but you're working from behind the whole time and it's much harder to do that.

We don't know what 2006 has in store. Right now, it's time for this team to shine and hopefully back up our championship that we won last year.

Believe it or not, when practice begins on Thursday morning at Texas Motor Speedway, that will be the first time I've ever even sat in a Grand National car.

It's a good and a bad thing we're here testing at Richmond. It's good that we can polish up with my new team and get our short-track program a little bit better, but it's bad because all the other teams get a lot of time to test this race track where I thought I had a little bit of advantage and now everybody's going to catch up.

It's been a tough few weeks with running into SAFER barriers, luckily, and researching with NASCAR what type of G-force my body's been through, ... You just need time to repair, to rebuild and to re-gather yourself, and next week something else would happen. And so this is a great taste of victory. It's very satisfying.

After that, it will be a great race, in prime time Saturday night, for the fans that will be watching it here or the fans watching on East Coast television,

That's exactly what we're hoping for this time around - another great day and a super team effort. We definitely plan on starting up closer to the front than we did there that day.