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Kyle Busch tackles 4 races in 5 days

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points leader Kyle Busch is set to make history by competing in four races within five days at four different tracks between Wednesday and Sunday

Busch will compete on Wednesday night's Prelude to the Dream at Eldora Speedway, a charity event at Tony Stewart's half-mile dirt-track, to kick off a hectic five-day schedule that will also include three NASCAR events, where he will drive for three different teams.

Following Wednesday's event he will be traveling to New Jersey to make an appearance for his sponsor M&M's on Thursday, flying later to Pocono to take part in all the Sprint Cup series on-track activities on Friday.

As soon as he completes qualifying for Sunday's 500-mile race, he will take a helicopter to the airport to go to Texas, where he will race at night in the Craftsman Truck Series for Billy Ballew at Texas Motor Speedway.

Right when he's finished with the race, he will return to Pocono, where he will sleep at his motorhome on the track to then complete the final Sprint Cup practice sessions before flying out again to Nashville in the afternoon.

On Saturday night he will compete for Braun Racing in the Nationwide Series there and then return to sleep at Pocono again, where he will race his usual No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota on Sunday at the 2.5-mile oval.

"We've had the Nashville (Nationwide) thing on our schedule all year long," Busch said about his busy schedule.

"Since we've been running so well in the Craftsman Truck Series, Billy (Ballew) is leading or second, I'm not sure exactly where he's at out in the Truck Series standings for owners, we decided we'd go over there and run in the Truck Series.

"It's fun for the fans I think, too, to see me be able to be as crazy or as stupid as I might be and trying to run all these. They get the excitement of seeing whether or not I'll succeed or fail. That's a good part of it, too."

Busch says he has no concerns about the physical demands he will be subject to during the five days, not only due to the fact that he faces more than 1,000 miles of racing, but also because of the number of air-miles he will be flying over the five days, which are nearly five times those that he will drive.

"I don't think that I've got any stamina worries or anything like that," Busch said. "I think all that will play out. It will be fine.

"The only thing that I do worry, we have a TV crew and stuff like that going with us. They're wanting to film what goes on the plane, off the plane, this and that and everywhere. That's kind of going to be probably the most draining thing, is just toting them around with us.

"Shouldn't be that big a deal. I'd like to sleep on the plane. But I guess they've got questions they want to ask me on the plane that will take a little bit of time. Other than that, normally I'm pretty good at sleeping on planes. I look forward to getting a couple naps on there back and forth."

In the past, Busch and other Sprint Cup Series drivers have raced at two different race tracks in the same weekend, but Busch's adventure this weekend is unprecedented.

The 23-year-old currently runs second in the Nationwide Series drivers' standing, besides leading the points in the Sprint Cup.

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