Q. Did Kyle Busch get engaged?
A. Nope. This local newspaper article incorrectly refers to Kyle's girlfriend, Samantha Sarcinella, as his fiancée:
[Dan McLaughlin] raced through the Street Survival course on Friday in his neighbor's BMW station wagon with Busch's fiance [sic] in the passenger's seat.
They've jumped the gun a little -- TGOM can confirm that the couple is not engaged. Yet? But several of you are very excited at the prospect!
NASCAR Nextel Cup Series driver Kurt Busch talks about his wedding plans.
Quoting this...
"The schedule dictates when we have the wedding. We've got it this year with the off weekend between Pocono and Indianapolis. My fiancée said she wanted a summertime wedding, so that's what Eva will get. The plans are going great. I should have fired the wedding planner three times already, but we still have her. She's doing OK, and we're getting down to it.
Why did he want to fire this...?
"One of the stories is exactly what I talked about with Jeff Wolf (Las Vegas Review-Journal). We go and pay for permits to do everything out on the beach. Then to find out we can't do it out on the beach from environmentalists, that was a tough blow to Eva. To have her crying on my shoulder one night that she didn't quite get her dream wedding out on the beach was tough. I thought that was more the wedding planners fault than anybody's."
A Las Vegas wedding chapel wasn't right for this...
"I would say I know how they made those businesses work in Vegas now because a lot of people run there for their second marriages or even when they don't have the money to put it all together, but I can tell you that a lot of our wedding has been roped back in because of some of the articles that have been written. Environmentalists have gotten hold of different things. Now we can't do anything out on the beach, in the beach area because of Tiger Beetles. We love the way things are going though. We've got everything planned on the front porch. We're going to have the ceremony there and then we'll have the reception out in the backyard, so we're having some fun."
How did you choose the location for this...?
"The site is magnificent with the seclusion it has. We were able to meet Dan (Hoffler) through Eva's aunt. She used to work for Dan Hoffler. Eva's cousin is Christopher Forbes from the Forbes Saltwater Taffy. Him and I didn't hit it off well at all in the beginning. He thought I was a racecar driver stealing his cousin. Now we're best friends. Christopher Forbes was a key instrument in introducing me to Dan Hoffler."
Why were the Tiger Beetles an issue for this...?
"Those are the insects I guess that have their natural habitat on the Chesapeake Bay in the area we were looking to get married. Their big mating season is the months of June and July. With this being July, the environmentalists said, 'wow, wow. We can't have a bunch of guys out there building a pier and dock for this wedding because it's going to disrupt the environment.' So that's where we've had our trouble. We just had to move everything around to the front porch of the house. We'll do everything there. It's going to be just as fantastic. We're still going to do it at sunset. So it still will be the most romantic thing I've ever seen according to the checkbook. We've had probably over 200 reply to us saying they're coming. I'm expecting about 250. It's going to be toward the evening time of the day. It'll quickly be cooling down and everybody will have a very enjoyable time with all the different things we're having. We've got a cool band coming in and a bunch of NASCAR people, bunch of family. It's a great time to bring two families together."
A new chapter for this...
"I guess it's the single days where I can count on both my hands that I have left as a bachelor and someone who is anticipating a great marriage and a great new chapter in my life. I can't wait to get married. It's going to be fun. I'm a little bit of a romantic the way I proposed to her, the way we're getting married. Everything has happened on this off weekend for us the past three years, so I can't wait to come back to Indianapolis as a married man and see how I race with that wedding ring on."
Why is this weekend so special to this...?
"We met on a blind date. It's a very romantic story. It was on this same off weekend three years ago. Last year, which would have been two years into us dating, is when I decided we'd go to Europe for a quick vacation and I proposed to her in Prague. Everything turns right around this off weekend for us. That's just the way the NASCAR schedule is. She knew nothing about racing beforehand, and we were set up on a blind date by a friend of hers from high school who also is from Chesapeake. His name is Jeremy Brickhouse. That guy works on my race team. He's actually the spotter. I've grown into the Virginia area. I love going up there and visiting the beach. Her family lives in Chesapeake, and of course Norfolk has a great downtown district. It's a lot of fun in that area."
The Best Man is this...
It's a good friend of mine from Las Vegas. His name is Jesse Walker, and he's been a crew member on all my teams since 1994. Him and I moved from Vegas together to the Detroit area where we raced a little bit. Then we moved on down to North Carolina together, so we've spent the greater part of the last 12 years together and he'll be my best man. Kyle was in the running there, but he's going to be a groomsman."
Jesse is a bit nervous about this...
"It's going to be fun. He's so nervous. He doesn't know what to say, so the wedding planner is going to come up with some lines for him. He's so nervous that Roger Penske is going to be there and some other people. I told him man it's just me. It's just the good old days. This is probably 10 Daytona 500s going into one weekend here. I'm definitely excited."
Is the race to the chase or the altar more stressful for this...?
"I'd say winning the thing was the most stressful back in 2004. That was crazy. Right now it's just a matter of getting this team into position to win races which will ultimately lead to finishing real well in the points. We've got the wedding, which is no problem. It's being handled by the wedding planner and Eva. My job is to get the Miller Lite Dodge running faster with Roy McCauley and things we have to do as a team. We went on a nice little stretch. We went five races in a row with top 10 finishes. We were looking for a sixth one. We look at it as just a little hiccup. We've downed some water and poured some sugar down the mouth. I think that's the remedy of getting rid of the hiccups. Now we're ready to rip the next few races."
Any honeymoon plans for this...?
"We'll actually have a few days. Eva and I went between the California and Vegas races to Cabo, down in Mexico. That's what I called the pre-honeymoon. We had four or five days there. We'll have three or four days after the wedding to go to a deserted island somewhere and just do nothing for a few days."
How involved is Eva in the racing of this...?
"She definitely helps out with the team. She sits on the pit box and takes very diligent notes with pit strategy. She scans other teams when the crew chief has other things going on. She's heavily involved with the team, and she does a great job there as well as the support I need in the home structure we have. It's great."
You've been inquiring about this...
Q. Nicole Lunders, Eva Bryan, biffle busch girlfriend
A. After NASCAR Nextel Cup Series driver Greg Biffle was put into the wall and out of the race by Kurt Busch on lap 82 today at Texas Motor Speedway, his girlfriend, Nicole Lunders, had a few choice words for his former teammate's fiancée, Eva Bryan:
If only there'd been a mic standing by this...
Quoting this...
Kurt Busch on Nicole's outburst: "That just shows her professionalism."
Update 4.12.06: NASCAR to address pit confrontation
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