Justin, as always, you make a good point with the past champion's provisional. But there are two things that likely diminish the value of that to Kurt. 1) It can only be used 6 times in a season (I think), and 2) it is likely that Tony Stewart's car points may wind up in a car that Danica Patrick drives and Tony will use his past champion provisional for the races she runs next year. As most recent champion, I think he'll get first dibs at that qualification exemption.
Further, It seems to me (ignoring the spin Kurt put on the situation in his ESPN statement) that Penske and Dodge were pretty unified in cutting ties with Busch .... I'm not thinking that Dodge is going to be pushing their Mopar pro stock guys to put Busch in a competitive car anymore.