NASCAR Champion and Detona 500 Winner Kurt Busch It is believed that the Rally at the World Rally Championships has the ability to crack the series in Finland.
2004 NASCAR Cup Champion and 2017 Detona 500 winner visited Finland for the first time to experience WRC. The 46-year-old has been a long fan of the rally and competed in the 2014 Monza rally show, running an M-Sport-made Ford Ford RS WRC.
Busch, Who is ready to join the NASCAR Hall of Fame next yearWRC received the first hand taste on Thursday, when he joined Rally Estonia Winner Oliver solberg Swedish driver’s Toyota Grass Yaris Rally 2 for a ride in Shakedown in Car.
“For me, it took me back when I ran a Monza rally show 10 years ago. To experience (WRC) at a real WRC rally with first class Oliver Solberg,” Busch said.
“The car is like a ballet and what is doing with the Oliver car, which is the most difficult part for me to digest. I think the car is going sideways and I am fine, but jumps, twist and turn – car – car is so tight. Our nascar cars are very heavy and are buried in the track, but these rally cars are buried on the top of the track.
“Launching an all-wheel drive car and going to some corners and switchbacks, like Oliver was one step ahead, where my body was to digest the corner. When you respect someone, there is no fear like this.
“Certainly, our NASCAR discipline is very different. It is a lot about tire management and to get a level of grip on asphalt. It is the all-wheel drive, lightweight, and the faster you can go, the faster you can go, while the branches of the tree are killing the windshield.
Busch’s journey irony is that arrives on day WRC announces its 2026 calendarWhich confirmed that the plan to bring the championship to the United States was postponed for at least one more year. However, the FIA is confident that its purpose is To the first time to WRC in North America Since 1988, it will come in 2027.
Asked about the WRC’s appeal to the American audience, Busch was confident that an event on the soil of the house could prove popular and increase the profile of discipline.
“It will be fantastic (for WRC in USA). I think what is the newness of what NASCAR did with Chicago Street Race And Formula 1 What he has done with Las Vegas and Miami is a hybrid street race, it brings it to the city centers that will not normally be accustomed to it. Can the rally do this? Of course, but you must have the outer area for steps.
“I think anything new is an adventure work right now and when you have proper support from the series and the manufacturers involved (can do this work). If you are very close to a big city like that (chatanogo), it is when you have other nightlife and the ability to go to the people where they need to park and go.”
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