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Kyle Busch wants 150 more bows to the crowd before his career comes to an end.

Quotes & Notes: Busch takes two at Richmond

By NASCAR.COM
May 4, 2009
03:16 PM EDT
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What a way to celebrate your 24th birthday.

Kyle Busch wasn't the dominant car Friday in the Nationwide Series race at Richmond. He the most powerful on Saturday in the Cup race -- yet when it mattered most, he was the one driving away with the victory and completing the weekend sweep on his 24th birthday.

The wins give Busch 50 over all three of NASCAR's national series and while Busch admits he won't catch Richard Petty and his 200 Cup wins, Busch wouldn't mind a "200" milestone all his own.

"I'd like to get 200 victories [across all three series]. I know it's not 200 Cup victories like Richard Petty has, but it will still be a phenomenal mark for me," Busch said. "Hopefully I can achieve that goal. It would sure be nice to get that but I know the older I get, I'll start slowing down some way."

He's an eighth of the way there with no signs of slowing anytime soon.

Quotebook

"He gave me a win on my birthday in Daytona last year, so I got him a win for his birthday tonight at Richmond."
-- Steve Addington, Kyle Busch's crew chief on the win

"You've got to give feedback and I just keep telling the guys what's wrong with it."
-- Kyle Busch, on how he is so successful with a bunch of different teams

"There are a lot of guys out there I don't trust anymore after tonight and watching their antics out there out there on the race track. There were some guys that were less than impressive to be around tonight but I guess that seems like as time goes on there is less etiquette and less give and take and more idiots out there than we have ever had before."
-- Tony Stewart, on a record 15 cautions at Richmond

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From now we're just going to hit the wall when we're not running well.

-- JEFF BURTON

"From now we're just going to hit the wall when we're not running well (watch video)."
-- Jeff Burton, who finished third after a crash with Dale Earnhardt Jr.

"It was a long night -- really long. I thought it was never going to end (watch video). We'll take 11th-place. One spot more would have been fantastic. We got to be happy with that. We're doing it every week. I'm thrilled. Even though it's a tough night we had a decent finish."
-- Marcos Ambrose on surviving a spin to finish 11th at Richmond

"It seemed like everything that could go wrong tonight did go wrong."
-- Kasey Kahne, on a disappointing night at Richmond

"We've been in contention to win this race every time we've been here. You don't take anything out of it other than frustration (watch video). That's about it."
-- Mike Ford, Denny Hamlin's crew chief on the team's 14th-place finish after leading the most laps

"I got to a point where I felt we could run in the top-10 --and we got run over and wrecked and tore the car up (watch video). We didn't have the best car, but we adjusted on it to where we could have run in the top-10 or top-12. We kind of got that taken away from us -- so we're disappointed."
-- David Reutimann on his 28th-place finish

"I like the short tracks more all the time. I wouldn't have thought my first two top-10s would come on short tracks."
-- Sam Hornish Jr., on his sixth-place finish and second top-10 of the season

Notebook

• This is Kyle Busch's 15th victory in 160 Cup races. He becomes the winningest driver at his 24th birthday.

• Tony Stewart (second) posted his 15th top-10 finish in 21 races at Richmond International Raceway. It is his seventh top-10 finish in 2009.

• Jeff Burton (third) posted his 14th top-10 finish in 30 races at Richmond International Raceway.

Joey Logano (19th) was the highest finishing rookie.

Jeff Gordon leads the point standings by 10 points over Kurt Busch. Gordon finished eighth; Busch finished 12th.

• There were 21 lead changes among eight drivers. Denny Hamlin led 148 laps to lead all drivers. Jeff Gordon led 96 laps and race winner Kyle Busch led 53.

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