Lame-duck driver: Week two

Kyle Busch is in week two of his lame-duck status as driver of the No. 5 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports. Dale Earnhardt Jr. is coming to Hendrick Motorsports and Busch will be leaving at year's end.
Busch responded by posting a sixth-place finish in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway.
Now he faces two challenges. Racing the Car of Tomorrow at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma. It is the first race for the Car of Tomorrow on a road course. Busch won the first Car of Tomorrow race earlier this year at Bristol Motor Speedway.
"I'm one hundred percent focused on the task at hand," Busch said. "I still have a job to do and, as you saw in last weekend's sixth-place finish at Michigan, we're still very much giving it our all. Our sponsors, Kellogg's and CARQUEST, deserve nothing but the best because they have been great partners to me and to the No. 5 team."
His record on the Infineon Raceway road course is a bit mixed. He finished 40th in his first race there two years ago. He was 11th in last year's race.
"I think Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and of course the other road course ringers like Boris Said and Ron Fellows will all be tough," Busch said. "I've had the chance to follow both Jeff and Tony on the track and learned a lot from them. Juan Pablo Montoya is going to be a threat, too, because he was impressive and aggressive at the Mexico City Busch Series race."