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Despite his hot start to the season, Kyle Busch hasn't decided whether he'll run for the Nationwide Series title this year.
Unlike fellow Sprint Cup regulars Carl Edwards, Clint Bowyer, David Ragan and David Reutimann, Busch hasn't committed to the full 35-race slate on NASCAR's No. 2 division -- just yet.
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"The consideration is there, but it's a race-by-race deal for me right now," said Busch, who shoots for his third consecutive Nationwide Series win in Sunday's Corona Mexico 200 in Mexico City. "If I go out and win a bunch of these in a row, we might re-evaluate. It's great to be able to come out and race in the Nationwide Series since I have such a blast doing it."
Although Busch is enjoying him time in the Nationwide car and the early season success, his focus remains on his main job driving the Joe Gibbs Racing Sprint Cup No. 18 Toyota.
"Our concentration is on our Cup effort, and we're second in points over there and running consistently near the front every week," Busch said. "We still have to concentrate on the Cup stuff to make sure we stay toward the front in points and make the Chase. If I feel comfortable on how things are going over there, then maybe we'll see how the chips fall on the Nationwide Series side."
For now Busch will focus on his potential series three-peat in Sunday's fourth NASCAR visit south of the border.
A crowd of nearly 100,000 is expected to jam the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez road course Sunday, and Busch is looking forward to running the challenging circuit.
"We should have won that race a couple of years ago (2006) when I got wrecked going for the lead," he said. "The race track is a lot of fun. The whole atmosphere and how passionate the race fans are are what make it exciting."
The experiment to export NASCAR racing internationally has been a success, with Mexico City and last year's first-ever Nationwide Series visit to Montreal both well-received.
Sunday's race will find a large group of road racing specialists in the field aiming to derail the regular NASCAR contingent's hopes of reaching Victory Lane. Among them are Brian Simo, Patrick Carpentier, Michele Jourdain, Boris Said and Scott Pruett, who was punted out of the lead with 10 laps to go by teammate and eventual winner Juan Pablo Montoya in last year's race.
"It was very controversial," Pruett said of the incident. "We were the talk of the town for a week afterwards."
While Montoya won't be back to defend his title, Pruett is hoping things can turn out better for him this time around.
