Kurt Busch, Penske Racing Agree to Part Ways

The Charlotte Observer's Jim Utter broke the news first late yesterday evening that Kurt Busch has been fired from Penske Racing by team owner Roger Penske. Officials with Penske Racing confirmed Utter's report but would only say that Kurt and the team "mutually agreed" to part ways, but not actually confirming the driver was fired. In a recent article here on Bleacher Report, I called for Penske to let Busch go in response to a season full of negativity and inappropriate behavior. Penske must have had enough of Busch's actions too, and sponsors Shell and Pennzoil likely put enough pressure on the team to let Kurt go.Recently during the Sprint Cup Series awards banquet week in Las Vegas, Kurt announced he was seeing a sports psych...

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