"Being able to get the same car two years in a row makes it a lot easier on the driver because I haven't been able to do that yet in my career," he said in an interview with ESPN. "So it's the first time I don't have a rookie stripe on my bumper and I'm looking forward to it."

"It's a pretty busy life. Just last week I've been in five different states in four days and it's been pretty difficult," he said back in January. His goals are set and there's another phenom in his rear-view mirror who also happens to be his older brother.

"The younger brother always wants to go out and outdo the older brother. So I've had that on me for a long time. But [Kurt] kind of paved the way for me to get up here and knocked down a bunch of trees for me," [Kyle Busch] said. "I would say it's probably too easy for me to get here, of course and now that I am here, I have to be able to make sure that I can do the job at hand as well as anybody else can."