Kyle Busch finished runner-up in the Busch Series in 2004 and was named Rookie of the Year. Credit: Autostock

10 Questions: K. Busch

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Kyle Busch's latest step on a march to the premier level of stock car racing included winning the 2004 Raybestos Rookie of the Year title as the runner-up finisher to Martin Truex Jr. in the NASCAR Busch Series.

Busch, 19, moves to the Nextel Cup Series in 2005 in the long shadow cast by his older brother Kurt, a fellow Las Vegas native who'll be the defending Nextel Cup champion.

Kyle Busch recently took time on the eve of accepting kudos for his Busch season to answer 10 questions not specifically directed at his racing career.

1. What's your dream vehicle that you don't already own?

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It's called an S-7. Saleen makes it. It's got, like 850 horsepower and it's a 10-cylinder. It's a $600,000 car.

2. If time on the road weren't an issue, what would be your ideal pet?

The one I already have. I have two West Highland Terriers named Kelly and Suzie and they're both great.

3. What's your biggest pet peeve while driving on the road?

Everything! People are always in the way. Who cares about blinkers? They just get in the left lane and they go 60 miles an hour instead of doing about 15 over (the speed limit).

4. You travel a lot, so what's your worst hotel experience?

Probably being in Darlington when they were doing construction on the hotel. They were painting walls and going up the handrails putting paint on my hand. There was no elevator so you're walking up the stairs.

You get into the room and there's no hot water. And the room smells like wet seaweed has been thrown in there for about a month. Eeyuk. Nasty.

Did they give you a break on your room rate?

No, they didn't. I just lived with it and said, 'whatever' (laughing).

5. What's your favorite food?

Chili dogs. And the best place to go get chili dogs is out on the West Coast. You've got to find a place called 'Wiener Schnitzel.'

6. If you had to choose, would it be being honest, or being nice?

I'd have to go with being nice, just because you can't always be honest. I shouldn't say that. You can be always honest, but when you're with your parents, back when you're six or seven years old, you can't always be honest (laughing).

7. What's your fondest childhood memory?

Probably messing around with Kurt on go-karts. Our first go-kart experience that we had two of them we went around in the neighborhood bank parking lot.

We were always racing and doing stuff like that, there, but the first time we got two of them, we were racing together and dad gave the one to go signal. Kurt was leading at the time and we went off into Turn 3.

I had a run on him and I got underneath him and he chopped me off a little bit or I came up, one of the two -- but I went up over his wheel and knocked his carburetor off and I ended up beating him back to the star/finish line so I won that one.

8. What would your dream date be? Where and with whom?

That would have to be out in the middle of nowhere, somewhere nice where nobody could find us, with my lovely girlfriend, Erica.

9. What's your worst prank, either played by you, or done to you?

It was one that was played by me. We were testing in Kentucky -- I think it was last year with my Busch team. We put cellophane wrap all around the grill area of the rental car.

We put this green lube that you put in sparkplugs with -- it's nasty stuff -- put that on the windshield wipers. We put white grease and things like that all over the door handle, all over the steering wheel and all over the windshield wipers, because you had to use those.

When we were going down the road I was leading that other van and I flipped on my windshield cleaners so it was all spraying their windows, so when they flipped on their (wipers) it smeared the grease back and forth so then they can't see whatsoever.

And then the van's overheating and blowing white smoke out the tailpipe.

You ever worry about payback?

I do, because I got a little bit of it. When you're worried about payback, you always just better lock your car and keep your keys with you -- don't give your keys up.

They actually got me first, because they moved my truck when we were at Hendrick (Motorsports) one day all the way down and around behind all the other buildings and I had to walk down there and go find my vehicle.

10. What was your "Welcome to NASCAR" moment?

I'd probably have to look back on 2001, when I made it to the Truck Series and was running there and being successful and kind of having to go back and run ASA with (NASCAR's 18-year-old age limit) rule change.

It actually was better for me than what I had planned it out to be.