Kyle Busch ends 2024 with first winless NASCAR Cup Series season
AVONDALE, Ariz. — For the first time in his full-time career, Kyle Busch went winless in a NASCAR Cup Series season.
A 21st-place finish brought an end to a winning streak of 19 seasons for Busch, dating back to his first two career wins in 2005.
Over those 19 seasons, he went from being a young, controversial, hotshot rookie with a big mouth and a lot of talent, to the respectful elder statesman driver with over 200 NASCAR wins, three championships (two in Cup and one in Xfinity) and a voice that he is never afraid to use. While he won twice in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series this year, he couldn’t get it done in the sport’s top division this year.
Busch came close, especially early on in the season. He came within 0.007 seconds of winning Atlanta and challenged Ross Chastain for the lead late in the fall Kansas race before a spin ended the battle.
Busch also had possible race-winning speed in the Daytona 500 and at Las Vegas in the spring before pit road issues took him out of contention.
Kyle Busch’s NASCAR Cup Series wins by year
- 2023: 3 wins
- 2022: 1 win
- 2021: 2 wins
- 2020: 1 wins
- 2019: 5 wins
- 2018: 8 wins
- 2017: 5 wins
- 2016: 4 wins
- 2015: 5 wins
- 2014: 1 win
- 2013: 4 wins
- 2012: 1 win
- 2011: 4 wins
- 2010: 3 wins
- 2009: 4 wins
- 2008: 8 wins
- 2007: 1 win
- 2006: 1 win
- 2005: 2 wins
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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.
A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.
Fjeld has covered a wide array of stories and moments over the years, including Kevin Harvick's final Cup Series season, the first NASCAR national series disqualification in over 50 years, Shane van Gisbergen's stunning win in Chicago and the first Cup Series race at Road America in 66 years – as well as up-and-coming drivers' stories and stories from inside the sport, like the tech it takes for Hendrick Motorsports to remain a top-tier team.
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