{"id":124508,"date":"2025-08-06T20:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/124508\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T20:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:37:19","slug":"nascar-star-kyle-busch-makes-his-picks-for-2-most-underrated-drivers-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/124508\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Star Kyle Busch Makes His Picks for 2 Most Underrated Drivers Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/nascar-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series champ <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/kyle-busch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Busch<\/a> believes two specific drivers are the most underappreciated in the sport right now. <\/p>\n<p>Busch knows a lot about winning races in the iconic racing circuit. The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/richard-childress-racing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Childress Racing<\/a> driver has the most wins of any active driver at 63 \u2014 which is also ninth all-time. He was in the Championship 4 every year from 2015 to 2019, and in two of those seasons, he took home the Cup Series title.<\/p>\n<p>He is one of the best drivers ever and, arguably, of his era. Busch\u2019s resume adds a lot of weight to his opinions, which is why he was the subject of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6535194\/2025\/08\/06\/kyle-busch-nascar-fandom-richard-childress-racing-12-questions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Gluck\u2019s latest \u201c12 Questions\u201d<\/a> in a Wednesday post on The Athletic. Busch took part in the series back in 2011 and was prompted with one question he received back then. \u201cWho is the most underrated driver in NASCAR?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Kyle Busch named Matt Kenseth as the most underrated in the sport. In 2025, the NASCAR great actually picked a pair of veteran drivers.<\/p>\n<p>AJ Allmendinger is one of the most underrated NASCAR drivers right now?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/NASCAR-Toyota-Save-Mart-350-26685710-788x525.jpg\" alt=\"nascar\" class=\"wp-image-1325175\"  \/>Credit: Stan Szeto-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s two. I would probably say <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/chris-buescher\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Buescher<\/a> is one of them. And then I\u2019d also go with <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/aj-allmendinger\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AJ Allmendinger<\/a>,\u201d he said. \u201cI think AJ is really, really good. Being (alliance) teammates with the Kaulig guys and stuff like that, and knowing where he\u2019s at and what he\u2019s doing and how he\u2019s driving with similar stuff as us \u2014 I think he\u2019s getting a lot out of his cars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buesher and Allmendinger sit at 11 and 18, respectively, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/standings\/nascar-cup-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">current NASCAR standings<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/nascar\/nascar-predictions-watkins-glen-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR Predictions for Watkins Glen, including AJ Allmendinger<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Buescher is a one-time ARCA Racing Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series champion. He has multiple wins in the Cup Series, with his most recent coming at Watkins Glen in September 2024. Allmendinger is a two-time Xfinity champ who has also posted some wins in the Cup Series. However, his last came all the way back in 2021 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Picsart_24-01-24_23-52-03-166-e1706184896930.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-70 photo\" height=\"70\" width=\"70\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tAfter  earning  his  journalism  degree  in  2017,  Jason  Burgos  served  as  a  contributor  to  several  sites,  including  MMA  Sucka  &#8230; More about <a class=\"more-bio\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/author\/jasonburgosufc99430\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Burgos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time NASCAR Cup Series champ Kyle Busch believes two specific drivers are the most underappreciated in the sport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[30850,55732,22238,1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-124508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-a-j-allmendinger","9":"tag-chris-buescher","10":"tag-kyle-busch","11":"tag-nascar","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114983747185784527","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}