What’s Happening?

Kyle Busch keeps taking hit after hit in 2024. On Thursday, a social media post of Busch vacationing in Italy with his family showed the 63-time Cup Series winner with a brace on his left arm. What happened to Busch?

• Kyle Busch has been injured while racing before. Most notably, in 2015, he broke his leg in a NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Daytona, causing him to miss the first 11 races of the Cup Series season. He rebounded to win the Cup Series Championship that season, albeit in controversial fashion, after not competing in all 36 races.
• Busch has been involved in his fair share of crashes in recent weeks. He has failed to finish four of the last seven races due to crashes, and a late-race spin at Indianapolis cost him a potential top-five finish.
• It’s hard to pinpoint exactly where Busch sustained this apparent injury. However, we have some video evidence of Busch in discomfort following a recent race.

When Busch First Showed Discomfort

Following the post showing Busch with a brace on his arm, @Basso488 on X found a post-race in-car camera from after the Brickyard 400. Busch can be seen massaging his left hand and only using his opposite hand for fist bumps and handshakes.

The question becomes, where did this come from? It’s possible Busch sustained it somehow in his crash at Indianapolis, but we don’t know for sure.

It’s also potentially an older injury that Busch sustained and/or aggravated inside or outside the race car. As previously mentioned, Busch has had four crash-related DNFs in the last seven races.

It’s not uncommon for drivers to race through injuries as long as they don’t affect their ability to drive a race car. Denny Hamlin has raced before with a torn ACL sustained while playing pickup basketball. Chase Elliott had shoulder surgery last off-season for what he called an “Old injury.”

Davey Allison took perhaps the most drastic measures to stay in the car, using velcro on his gloves and the shifter to drive at Talladega in 1992 after injuring himself at Pocono the week before. He only completed five laps before Bobby Hillin replaced him, but it was still quite a feat.

Whatever happened to Busch probably won’t affect him getting into a race car. Maybe we’ll learn more about what exactly happened as time goes on.

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