from a Toyota Motorsports Transcript, #18-Kyle Busch announced he will run a Nationwide Series team in 2012:
Busch: “On behalf of myself and Kyle Busch Motorsports (KBM), it’s just a subtle little announcement that KBM is transitioning into the Nationwide Series next year to go race a full-funded team for the championship and I can’t announce any further details, besides that it will be a Toyota. Excited about it. It’s a great opportunity for myself and for the Kyle Busch Motorsports organization for everybody there that’s there now that we have on the line to hire to bring over in order to foresee that program being successful. We’re excited. It’s a great day for us. Crew chiefs, sponsors, drivers — all that stuff will be announced at a later time. Wanted to get it out there before Jayski, so we did it. That was good.” (so now ‘my’ mission is to find out the sponsor before announced……)
Q) Will Kyle Busch Motorsports continue to compete in the Truck Series?
Busch: “I did say transitioning in. We did run one race earlier this year, through help with NEMCO Motorsports, running Kimi Raikkonen at Charlotte, so we have the equipment started. We will run trucks also. We will keep the 18 truck going for a full season next year. We are just a few races shy being full sponsorship on that deal. Obviously, last week with Dollar General — announcing those guys coming back to help us with the Truck Series program and, you know, with the driver and all that kinds of stuff, it’s all pretty much done. It’s just a matter of waiting until the time in which the sponsor is ready to announce all that stuff.”
Q) Is it safe to assume you will drive Nationwide races for KBM and Joe Gibbs Racing next year?
Busch: “It’s kind of the point to really announce later, but it’s safe to assume that I will be running in some Nationwide races at Kyle Busch Motorsports. I will also still commit to my current obligations that I have at JGR (Joe Gibbs Racing) and run over there too. I’ll be split between two Nationwide teams essentially driving some races. What number that’s going to be yet, that’s to be decided. Certainly we’ve gone over it with JGR and everything. This is definitely nothing new to those guys. There’s certainly the amount of races that I’ve already been set to run in the Nationwide car for next year with JGR. We’ll still continue to plan all that out into these next few weeks or next few months maybe before our announcement.”(Toyota Motorsports)(10-21-2011)
