Kyle Busch is known as many things, chief among them being one heck of a race car driver and being a villain on the NASCAR circuit.
But being a brainiac?
Check out more from my Q&A with the NASCAR star:
Jenni Carlson: You graduated high school early with honors. Does that mean you’re a brainiac?
Kyle Busch: A little bit, if I can remember anything I used to learn in school. I sort of threw it all away when I got out of school. But I guess when I was there I was kinda smart.
JC: Did you have a favorite subject?
KB: My favorite subject was probably math. Just being able to work with numbers.
JC: Did that carry over to racing any?
KB: If was going to be an engineer, probably, but I think the biggest math during a race is addition and subtraction. How many laps you’ve run and how many laps are left.
JC: If you’d have gone to college, any idea what you’d have studied?
KB: I probably would’ve looked at something in sports … whether it be football or baseball or something like that. If I had to concentrate on my education, probably being an engineer or some sort.
JC: What if you hadn’t been into racing? Would there have been another sport?
KB: I think so. For me, I like playing sports and watching sports.
JC: Did I read somewhere that you surf?
KB: When I get out to the coasts or even
JC: Back to racing for a minute. Your brother, Kurt, won the Cup in 2004. Do take any knowledge from watching that?
KB: Not really much this year. Back in the year when he was going for the championship, I was going for my championship in the Nationwide Series, then the Busch Series. I missed out, but he was able to win it. It was a fun time and a great year, but just wish our luck this year was sort of like my brother’s. You’ve gotta have good race cars, but when you have good luck on your side, too, it tends to help.
JC: Any brotherly rivalry about that? Kurt ever give you a hard time?
KB: That doesn’t happen, thankfully. I’ve got a little more time to try to get mine.