Kurt Busch has signed a multi-year deal to drive for Stewart-Haas Racing.
Busch, 35, told FOX Sports on Monday, “It’s inked.”
Busch, the 2004 Sprint Cup champion, has 24 career Cup wins and currently drives for Furniture Row Racing. He is 12th in the Sprint Cup points standings.
“This is the situation that every driver wants to be in,” Busch said. “To have an owner like Gene Haas calling and asking you to come and race how you know how to race and that is to win. Gene is giving me that opportunity.
“Having the powerhouse of (Tony) Stewart as a teammate and Kevin Harvick as a teammate makes this all the more intriguing.”
Busch recently received an offer from SHR co-owner Haas to leave Furniture Row Racing to join a team that will now expand next season to four cars. He'll be teammates with co-owner Stewart, who is out the rest of this year with a broken leg, Danica Patrick and Harvick, who is leaving Richard Childress Racing to join SHR.
Once Stewart returns -- the team has said he'll be back in time for next year's Daytona 500 -- SHR will have three drivers with a combined 96 Cup victories and four championships. They also have a combined 675 top-10 finishes. Patrick is in her first full season of Cup.
Harvick is replacing Ryan Newman in the lineup, and Stewart said last month that Newman was being let go because SHR did not have the capability to expand to four cars. But Haas stepped in and courted Busch on his own, and will fund Busch's ride out of his own pocket with sponsorship from his CNC machine company.
Furniture Row tried desperately to keep Busch, who joined the team with six races remaining last year and has the No. 78 Chevrolet in contention for a berth in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship for the first time in team history.
Furniture Row had just one win, three top-five finishes, eight top-10s and 48 laps led in almost 200 races before Busch. Since Busch came aboard, the car has six top-five finishes, 14 top-10s, 368 laps led and has qualified on the front row seven times.
Busch was ninth in points before Saturday night's 31st-place finish dropped him to 12th in the standings with two races remaining to set the Chase field.
Stewart left Joe Gibbs Racing to become co-owner of Haas' lowly team in 2009, bringing Newman with him and immediately making it a legitimate and winning organization. Stewart won the championship in 2011, and brought Patrick aboard in 2012 for 10 Sprint Cup races in preparation for her full-time addition this season.
Harvick was signed in November of last year, a full season before he'd join the team, and now Busch is inked, giving SHR an aggressive driver lineup and doubling its car count in just two seasons.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
