{"id":139587,"date":"2025-08-12T11:53:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/139587\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:53:22","slug":"nascar-legend-kyle-busch-issues-call-me-plea-as-star-open-to-stunning-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/139587\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR legend Kyle Busch issues &#8216;call me&#8217; plea as star open to stunning switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                                                                                                Change your timezone:&#13;<br \/>\n                                                                                                &#13;<br \/>\n                                                &#13;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p><b>Two-time <a title=\"NASCAR Cup Series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/tags\/nascar-cup-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR Cup Series<\/a> champion <a title=\"Kyle Busch\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/tags\/kyle-busch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Busch<\/a> has revealed he would be open to giving the Indy 500 a shot, telling interested teams to get in touch.&#13;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nIn recent seasons, Hendrick Motorsports star Kyle Larson has run in the prestigious motorsport event, attempting the &#8216;double&#8217; by completing the IndyCar race, followed by NASCAR&#8217;s Coca Cola 600, on the same day.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nLarson&#8217;s attempt at completing all the laps in both events <b><a title=\"has failed so far\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/f1-news\/1051020\/nascar-kyle-larson-double-attempt-over-wrecks-car-indy-500\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has failed so far<\/a><\/b>, with weather plaguing him in 2024 and a wreck in both races resulting from his 2025. That has not put Busch off, however.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cSure, I would do it,&#8221; Busch told the <a title=\"IndyStar\" href=\"https:\/\/eu.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/motor\/2025\/08\/11\/indy-500-opportunity-nascar-kyle-busch-arrow-mclaren-zak-brown-kyle-larson\/85429560007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IndyStar<\/a>. &#8220;I would give it a go, give it a whirl.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI know Kyle [Larson] ran into some terrible luck with some weather, so Mother Nature wasn\u2019t on his side, but maybe they\u2019ll be on my side.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cBut my phone number is wide-open, so call me.\u201d&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a title=\"NASCAR Cup Series star issues retirement verdict after huge official announcement\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/f1-news\/1058555\/nascar-cup-series-star-shane-van-gisbergen-retirement-huge-official-announcement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR Cup Series star issues retirement verdict after huge official announcement<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Busch&#8217;s Indy 500 ambitions<\/p>\n<p>\nKyle Busch being open to running in the Indy 500 is nothing new, with the Richard Childress Racing driver having previously revealed that he has been <b><a title=\"close to running in the race twice before\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/f1-news\/1050358\/kyle-busch-reveals-nascar-chief-blocked-huge-career-move-indy-500\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">close to running in the race twice before<\/a><\/b>.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nSpeaking on Denny Hamlin&#8217;s <a title=\"Actions Detrimental podcast\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DirtyMoMedia\/status\/1922365313330332050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Actions Detrimental podcast<\/a> earlier this year, Busch revealed that he first came close in 2017, but his boss at the time, Joe Gibbs, blocked the move.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nThen, more recently, Busch had another opportunity: &#8220;I had it signed, sealed and delivered again and then Larson took it.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I won&#8217;t release the sponsor, but I had a sponsor talking to [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/f1-teams\/mclaren\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McLaren<\/a> CEO] Zak Brown, the deal was done, and we were about ready to go to contract, and Zak Brown told the sponsor, &#8216;Well, hey, I need you to buy the car&#8217;.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;And the sponsor was like, why do I wanna buy the car? I don&#8217;t need the car, I&#8217;m sponsoring Kyle, he&#8217;s gonna drive the car, I don&#8217;t wanna buy the car.&#8221;&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nBusch continued, explaining Brown&#8217;s logic: &#8220;In case he wrecks the tub, they want you to buy the tub.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Well, it wasn&#8217;t two weeks later that I&#8217;m talking to this sponsor guy and he was like, &#8216;We&#8217;re too late anyways now that the opportunity&#8217;s closed because Larson got it&#8217;.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m like, what do you mean Larson got it? And then I found out Larson signed a two-year deal, and we were only gonna do a one-year deal.&#8221;&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a title=\"NASCAR confirm Kyle Larson demotion after Watkins Glen nightmare\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/f1-news\/1058606\/nascar-cup-series-standings-2025-kyle-larson-suffers-demotion-watkins-glen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR confirm Kyle Larson demotion after Watkins Glen nightmare<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Change your timezone:&#13; &#13; &#13; Two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch has revealed he would be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[83475,1463,1461,1462,4424,83474,22238,15865,1406,1459,50,46825,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-139587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-coca-cola-600","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-formula-1","11":"tag-gpfans","12":"tag-hendrick-motorsports","13":"tag-indy-500","14":"tag-kyle-busch","15":"tag-kyle-larson","16":"tag-nascar","17":"tag-nascar-cup-series","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-simmey-hannifin-donaldson","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115015660609990129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139587","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=139587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}