Cup: Busch Crashes Out at EchoPark Speedway

What’s Happening?

As the old saying goes, cautions breed cautions. Of course, most of the time that’s used in the closing laps of the race, not with just under 30 to go in Stage 2. Nevertheless, we had three back-to-back-to-back incidents, the latest of which involved Kyle Busch. Here’s what happened:

• As you can see in the footage above, Kyle Busch gets a little squirely racing on the bottom. As a result, he shoots up the track into a small but open spot in front of Noah Gragson. Subsequently, the No. 8 of Busch let off. Not expecting it, Gragson got into the back of Busch, sending him around.
• We saw a familiar sight in the NexGen era as we saw Kyle Busch’s No. 8 Cheddars Chevy spin out and make hard contact with the inside wall. His day was effectively done, joining the likes of B. J. McLeod, Ty Gibbs, Josh Berry, Riley Herbst, and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. in the garage.
• Busch drew some criticism last week after how his Daytona 500 ended. Foreseeing the big crash on the last lap while he was running in the mid-20s, Busch let off, plummeting to the back of the pack. His spotter came over the radio and asked if he was out of gas, to which Busch replied ‘no’ and that he wasn’t going to drive into the wreck. Safely making his way through the inevitable carnage, he was able to salvage a 15th place finish.
• Unfortunately, this is same-old-same-old for Kyle Busch’s career in the RCR era. After winning Saturday’s Truck race (third one in a row at the track), he was optimistic heading into today’s 400 miler. And though he showed promise early on, contending for the lead early, he once again ended the race with a check and release from the infield care center.

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