The last few weeks has been back-to-back hit and miss for two times Cup champion Kyle Busch who was in a desperate chase for a playoff spot. On Sunday at the Southern 500, he found himself in a last lap duel with Stewart Haas Racing’s Chase Briscoe, but didn’t have enough in his car to make the most important pass.
The RCR veteran on his post-race interview explained what went wrong and how he lost the duel against Chase Briscoe. Just like at the Coke Zero Sugar 400 the week before against Harrison Burton, Kyle Busch was sure that he had a shot at winning the race and securing RCR a spot in the playoff that will yield millions in profit.
He admitted that if the Stewart Haas Racing driver had a car with a couple more laps old tier, the win would have gone to the No:8 car. Busch insisted that he didn’t have enough power at the end of the race and it made the race slip away from his hands, producing another heartbreaking moment for the veteran.
Yeah, I did when I made it through a few of those guys right there on the start, I thought we’d have a shot to get there. I think I just needed him to have maybe three or four more laps older tires for me to be able to break through the wake once I got within his air. I really didn’t have enough to power through that to get closer. I was kind of sliding already.Kyle Busch said via USA broadcast.
Kyle Busch is determined to build on the recent increase in form
The champion driver made a good comeback when the season restarted after the Olympics break and RCR was able to give them solid cars. So, despite the loss the surge in performance gives the veteran hopes and he believe that RCR can build on to have solid playoff season and well as good start to the 2025 season.
Something to build on and get better for. We just missed a lot in the early part of the year and through the middle part of the year to put ourselves in this spot and be on the outside looking in. To come in here for a last-ditch effort and have a shot… early in the race I wouldn’t have thought we had a shot, so felt like we really overachieved there toward the end and got a really good finish for what we had, or what I thought we had. We’ll take it and keep building on it.Kyle Busch said.
The surge in form also gives some hopes to Kyle Busch about ending his winless streak. He is determined to keep his two-decade streak of a win a season going and now has the perfect momentum to achieve this goal. It will be interesting to see how the reminder of the season would playout for the future Hall of Famer.
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