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Just pisses me off as well as extremely sad. Here was a guy that was such a personality on the track, yeah fans of other drivers may have hated him, but damnit he was entertaining, not just a robot out there.
Kyle was so good for NASCAR and sports in general. We watched his entire adulthood play out. And like most, he developed as a human over that time. Too many held on to the Kyle hate from 15 years ago, but I really came to love watching him and hearing what he had to say on any topic racing.
I think Samantha was critical in his transformation. Her being so public about their pregnancy struggles forced him to be ok with being vulnerable and it helped.
He was a great heel in the first half of his career and then he became fun to root for in the 2nd half. His recent comments ****ting on Denny for what Denny said about him were great too.
This Sunday is going to be quite an emotional race
I think Samantha was critical in his transformation. Her being so public about their pregnancy struggles forced him to be ok with being vulnerable and it helped.
He was a great heel in the first half of his career and then he became fun to root for in the 2nd half. His recent comments ****ting on Denny for what Denny said about him were great too.
This Sunday is going to be quite an emotional race
https://www.reddit.com/r/NASCAR/comments/1tk4f75/kyle_busch_went_unresponsive_in_the_racing/
Really sad... Life is fragile
Really sad... Life is fragile
EastCoastAgNc said:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NASCAR/comments/1tk4f75/kyle_busch_went_unresponsive_in_the_racing/
Really sad... Life is fragile
complications from pneumonia either an aneurism or a stroke
Bunk Moreland said:
Kyle was so good for NASCAR and sports in general. We watched his entire adulthood play out. And like most, he developed as a human over that time. Too many held on to the Kyle hate from 15 years ago, but I really came to love watching him and hearing what he had to say on any topic racing.
I think Samantha was critical in his transformation. Her being so public about their pregnancy struggles forced him to be ok with being vulnerable and it helped.
He was a great heel in the first half of his career and then he became fun to root for in the 2nd half. His recent comments ****ting on Denny for what Denny said about him were great too.
This Sunday is going to be quite an emotional race
THAT is racing!! I "hated" the racer. I didn't hate Kyle Busch.
I hated him because he was a hard ass car for my favorite guy to race against.
His personality was a much needed part of the scene, and a rarity in the NASCAR of today.
He will be so missed!
way too young.
i always rooted for him, especially recently at RCR to get things turned back around.
i always rooted for him, especially recently at RCR to get things turned back around.
I didn't like Kyle Busch for a long time because he seemed pretty ambivalent to who paid the bills. Don't get me wrong. I love that he would drive anything, anywhere, anytime and usually win, and that he cared about winning. But his surly interviews after races got to be a big turnoff. It seems like the JGR years might have been the worst. Maybe JGR was part of the problem. He seems to have renewed his image when he moved to RCR. I had regained a lot of like for the guy, but there were a few years where I would turn off the TV for his interviews because he demeanor was so off-putting.
Very sad news to hear of his passing. He was a great racer, and he left behind a family.
Very sad news to hear of his passing. He was a great racer, and he left behind a family.
Wanted to share this video I got at Atlanta earlier this year after Kyle won the truck race. I loved seeing this happen in the moment and it means more now. pic.twitter.com/9xEOYbmKJB
— Pilot / Bri / BC (@NEATL_BC) May 21, 2026
I loved the image of him tossing his daughter up in the air in Atlanta
Reading more about it, sounds like a possible pulmonary embolism from his leg injury in January when he got 24 stitches after a stool he was standing on exploded when he was trying to change a smoke detector.
RCR elects to use No. 33 in Cup Series in place of No. 8, reserves number for Braxton Busch. https://www.jayski.com/2026/05/22/no-8-to-be-suspended-by-richard-childress-racing-team-switching-to-no-33/
Sounds like the bug I had at the end of March which I believe was the same bug I initially caught in February.
NASCAR driver Kyle Busch experienced shortness of breath, felt he was overheating and was coughing up blood the day before his death, according to a 911 call obtained Friday by The Associated Press. https://t.co/EHGNd564cr
— ESPN (@espn) May 22, 2026
It's starting to sound like there wasn't a cause of death revealed because they don't really know the cause of death.
Regardless, an awful sounding way to go and just a crushing event for his family.
Regardless, an awful sounding way to go and just a crushing event for his family.
Statement from the Busch family: The medical evaluation provided to the Busch Family concluded that severe pneumonia progressed into sepsis, resulting in rapid and overwhelming associated complications.
— Jenna Fryer (@JennaFryer) May 23, 2026
The Family asks for continued understanding and privacy
How awful. Wish he had taken some weekends off to recover, but drivers have raced through all kinds of illnesses for years.
There's no more waiver with the new points system. Wonder if they would consider something where if you have to miss a race for a medical condition you get points for the race you miss according to your average finish over the past 36 races (unless you're in the playoffs). It's a soft landing that encourages drivers not to put their long term health at risk.
There's no more waiver with the new points system. Wonder if they would consider something where if you have to miss a race for a medical condition you get points for the race you miss according to your average finish over the past 36 races (unless you're in the playoffs). It's a soft landing that encourages drivers not to put their long term health at risk.
Racing for Rowdy. pic.twitter.com/uzsyH4E2wf
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) May 23, 2026
He likely had no idea he had it and kept thinking he was battling through a lingering cold. And he doesn't strike me as the type of guy to go get fully checked out over a prolonged minor feeling illness.
I know someone who had pneumonia for a while and it took 3 doctors visits over a course of weeks before it finally got diagnosed.
Just such a sad situation for Kyle and his family.
I know someone who had pneumonia for a while and it took 3 doctors visits over a course of weeks before it finally got diagnosed.
Just such a sad situation for Kyle and his family.
If you watch one thing about the tragic death of Kyle Busch, make it this. Thank you to @MartySmithESPN and @notthefakeSVP for this, especially Marty for showing the raw emotions so many of us have about Kyle’s passing. #RIPRowdy #RIPKyleBusch pic.twitter.com/VnXktzM90M
— Mark (@Mark5833MIZ) May 22, 2026
They should call the O'reilly's race.
The Missing Man for one of the greatest to ever drive a race car. #ForeverRowdy pic.twitter.com/Girsp58FZK
— World of Outlaws (@WorldofOutlaws) May 24, 2026
Seen some discussion about the G forces at Dover how that track is so up and down could have made his condition worse. Not sure if it's accurate but makes sense
Bunk Moreland said:
He likely had no idea he had it and kept thinking he was battling through a lingering cold. And he doesn't strike me as the type of guy to go get fully checked out over a prolonged minor feeling illness.
I know someone who had pneumonia for a while and it took 3 doctors visits over a course of weeks before it finally got diagnosed.
Just such a sad situation for Kyle and his family.
Gibbs' comments in his presser about Kyle's 2015 crash summed it up for me. He said when he went to visit Kyle at his home that he was immediately doing pull ups and wiggling his toes not long after his right leg was destroyed at Daytona. He wanted back in the car ASAP.
He loved racing so much and was such a hard-nosed competitor that a cold or sinus infection was not going to keep him out of the car or truck. Not many drivers want to race in all three series the way Kyle would.
He had a true need for speed and was one of the best to ever do it.
RIP, Kyle.
Man this is hard to watch.
RIP Rowdy.
RIP Rowdy.
This was the moment that truly encapsulated how much Kyle Busch meant to NASCAR.
— Trey Wallace (@TreyWallace) May 24, 2026
The strength of Samantha and Brexton. They will always have a massive extended family to lift them up.
Well done, @NASCAR pic.twitter.com/UMoCDYlmSY
Would be something seeing Austin Hill win it in the 33 like Harvick in the 29 after Dale Earnhardt passed.
Except Hill is such a bag
The minutes before this with Samantha losing it was hard to watch...man I can't imagine
I know there are people who are *****ing about Amazon streaming races and they are either incapable or too feeble technologically to watch these races, but the production values here seem light years better than Fox.
I mean it's essentially a NBC broadcast... which has always been worlds better than FOX
Mathguy64 said:
I know there are people who are *****ing about Amazon streaming races and they are either incapable or too feeble technologically to watch these races, but the production values here seem light years better than Fox.
Also, I'm not technical so forgive me.
My Prime audio is off the charts better than any other platform. My system pumps it out!!
What is going on? Like when Fox does "Crank it up", I turn it up and it's still not close to what Prime cranks out.
I would take Dale Jr all year long.
I'll ***** about it because I can't use multiview on it
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