No. 1 Kyle Busch

Ford and Dodge have owned the Cup race at Michigan since 2001. Kyle Busch could change all that.
He could be the first Toyota driver to win a race at Michigan International Speedway, in the heart of Motor City country. He's already won the pole after rain washed out qualifying, and he leads all NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers with four wins.
"I guess through the tests and stuff I've tried to learn the new car and my adaptability between the trucks and the Nationwide and these new Cup cars - I've raced so many different vehicles that you learn so many different things and you can try more things when you get into a different vehicle," said Busch, driver of the No. 18 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing, "and I think it kind of lends more to my performance of running better because I've got more ideas to try than maybe two or three like the other guys and what they've learned from the past."
Busch's record at Michigan isn't all that impressive. His best finish at the track is a sixth place that came last year. He has only two top 10s in six career Cup races at the track, all with Hendrick Motorsports.
The car his team is taking to the track is a good one. It won the races at Atlanta Motor Speedway and Lowe's Motor Speedway. It was also on the pole for the Cup race at Lowe's.
"You never really know exactly how good of a season you're going to have because you never know exactly what your competition is going to be like," Busch said. "This year our competition has been coming from different areas. Carl Edwards, Greg Biffle, Kasey Kahne now. The Hendrick stuff -- they are solid. The 88 (Dale Earnhardt, Jr.) is real solid. They've been there every week. The 31 (Jeff Burton) -- he will sixth-place to 12th-place your butt every single week. It's just unbelievable that he could finish that consistently. That's what makes him so good, though. You have to battle the points and not necessarily trying to get the wins and stuff."