Kurt Busch grew up in Las Vegas, but his parents were from the western suburbs of Chicago. They got married in Vegas in 1972, and a few years later decided they would move there for good.

But they never severed their ties with their home town. Kurt and his family would come back to Chicago often and visit his grandparents. It became his favorite city in the world. When they weren't here, they knew they could still see it nearly every day by simply clicking the power button on the TV remote. The Cubs were on the Superstation, WGN.

Kurt talked about his connection to the Cubs last year with Paddocktalk.com...

"I’d hurry home after school and turn on the TV to WGN in Chicago – it was Channel 16 on the cable way back then and it still is. I’d grab my baseball glove, put on my Cubs cap, hop into my dad’s easy chair and tune in to watch my favorite sport and my favorite team.

There was nothing like it in the whole world. It was major league baseball at its best with my Chicago Cubs. I can remember today just how exciting it was way back then. I can still hear Harry Caray with his famous introduction to the seventh-inning stretch, going ‘Alright! Lemme hear ya! Ah-One! Ah-Two! Ah-Three!’

We might have been living in Vegas back then, but for several hours every day that the Cubbies were playing on TV, my heart was really right there in Wrigley Field. I dreamed of being right there with my heroes. I just imagined taking the field with my all-time favorites, like Ryne Sandberg, Andre Dawson, Rafael Palmeiro, Vance Law, Shawon Dunston and all the others."

He and his car may be going 200 miles an hour around a racetrack, but when Kurt Busch wants real excitement, he'll turn on the television, sit in the easy chair, and watch his favorite team; The Chicago Cubs.

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