2002: Kurt Busch gestures at Jimmy Spencer's car at Indianapolis. Credit: Autostock
August 18, 2003
2:32 PM EDT (1832 GMT)
Round 4
Date: August 18, 2003
Venue: Michigan International Speedway
BROOKLYN, Mich. -- The feud between Jimmy Spencer and Kurt Busch flared up again in the garage area at Michigan International Speedway after Sunday's GFS Marketplace 400, with Spencer allegedly punching Busch while Busch sat in his race car.
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Busch's car ran out of fuel, crew chief Jimmy Fennig said, as he tried to drive it back to his hauler after the race.
It stopped, interestingly, in front of Spencer's transporter.
Spencer then rammed Busch's rear bumper, causing the bumper to buckle. Spencer got out of his car and approached Busch, reaching through the window and allegedly punching Busch.
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Round 3
Date: August 4, 2002
Venue: Indianapolis Motor Speedway
INDIANAPOLIS -- Kurt Busch and Jimmy Spencer have entered another chapter into their ongoing saga.
This time, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was the venue, and Turn 3 was the spot.
On lap 36 of the Brickyard 400, Busch had just made a pass of Spencer on the backstretch.
When Busch entered Turn 3 of the 2.5-mile oval, Spencer appeared to get into the left-rear corner of Busch's Ford.
The back end lifted slightly and then snapped around, resulting in the car's left side making hard contact with the outside soft wall.
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Round 2
Date: March 25, 2002
Venue: Bristol Motor Speedway
BRISTOL, Tenn. -- The disappointment was evident in Jimmy Spencer's voice after he nearly captured his first NASCAR Winston Cup Series victory since 1994.
He had come so close. Close to ending the losing streak that has hung over his 45-year-old head.
He's been close before. He also had second-place finishes in 1999 in the Bristol night race and in 1998 at Talladega, where his second and last career victory had occurred four years earlier.
But this year is different for Spencer. He is unarguably driving the strongest car he's had in years. It is exactly the type of situation Spencer expected to be in when he joined Chip Ganassi Racing after the 2001 season.
He was racing for the win, and he was hungry.
But Kurt Busch got the better of him. Busch's pitch-black No. 97 Rubbermaid Ford bumped Spencer's No. 41 Target Dodge with just 45 laps remaining in Sunday's Food City 500, and Busch never looked back as he took his first Winston Cup win.
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Round 1
Date: Oct. 28, 2001
Venue: Phoenix International Raceway
AVONDALE, Ariz. -- It all started during Kurt Busch's rookie year.
Busch was running in the top 10 at Phoenix when he tangled with Spencer, who was a lap down at the time.
Instead of a top-10, Busch finished 22nd -- one of the final cars on the lead lap. Spencer finished 31st.
Busch mentioned the incident a few months later, when he won at Bristol.
"Last year, he (Spencer) dumps us (at Phoenix), and that was in my mind," Busch said. "I set the stage for it."
"He was the one who never forgets, and I never forgot what happened in Phoenix."
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