By alley - Jul 21, 2017, 2:41 PM ET

Busch looking for Brickyard turnaround

Two-time Brickyard winner Kyle Busch is hoping that this weekend's visit to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway marks the turnaround point in a self-described "frustrating" season.

The 2015 series champion has not visited Victory Lane since last year's Brickyard 400, although his consistently strong finishes currently have him sitting third in the points. But in a season that has been full of surprise winners, Busch admits that he is anxious to end his win drought and secure his spot in the playoffs.

"[This year] has definitely been frustrating," he told RACER. "There is no other word for it. Every week I walk out of the track, I'm mad if we're not winning because we're trying so hard and we've been so close and we've had opportunities, but we just haven't been able to get it all together and to get it where we need it to go to Victory Lane. You have a flat tire, or late-race caution because somebody else has a flat tire, and then the whole pit sequence changes, or I screw up on speed on pit road... so many different things have caught us with our pants down this year.

"We're on solid ground. We're just worried about whether or not there are going to be four different winners in the next seven races. That right there would certainly derail us and knock us out of the Chase. We have to be conscious of that, but we just need to focus on what we're doing, and not what everybody else is doing. We feel like we've got some really good tracks coming up, Indy being one of those."

Busch admits that his mission has been complicated by unexpected results at some races, but believes that his path to the finale at Homestead will be set by how he handles events that he can control, rather than worrying about the things that he can't.

"There has been some surprise winners, but at some of these races, it was the way the races played out," he says. "You've got Austin Dillon going to Victory Lane [at Charlotte] on fuel mileage, you've got restrictor plate races that are crapshoot races as it is, so you've got [Ricky] Stenhouse [Jr] going to Victory Lane in the last two of those [Talladega and Daytona].

"You've got to have things go your way, and you have to have luck on your side. If you look at, the tracks that I've won [at], the least on are restrictor plate tracks because it's just about luck; it's all about different circumstances that put you in Victory Lane on those tracks."