{"id":157315,"date":"2025-08-19T02:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/157315\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T02:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:50:15","slug":"nascar-insiders-react-to-wild-kyle-busch-chase-elliott-richmond-wreck-weigh-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/157315\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR insiders react to &#8216;wild&#8217; Kyle Busch-Chase Elliott Richmond wreck, weigh blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 12-car wreck on Lap 198 of Saturday\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/category\/nascar\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR<\/a><\/strong> Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway changed the race for several drivers. It ended the race of <strong>Chase Elliott<\/strong>, who got tagged by <strong>Kyle Busch<\/strong> exiting Turn 4. <\/p>\n<p>The wreck was triggered by\u00a0Busch\u00a0getting in the back of\u00a0<strong>Chase Briscoe<\/strong>, stacking up the field behind them in Turn 3.\u00a0Elliott initially made it through the carnage before Busch turned him, resulting in Elliott hitting the outside wall head-on.<\/p>\n<p>From an optics standpoint, this didn\u2019t look good for Busch, <strong>Freddie Kraft<\/strong> said on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UA_MKpfYwBQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Door Bumper Clear<\/a>\u201d podcast. Kraft, spotter for <strong>Bubba Wallace<\/strong>, added it wasn\u2019t intentional on Busch\u2019s part. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a wild wreck. Kyle Busch\u2019s give a f*ck broke for a minute there,\u201d Kraft said. \u201cThe 5 [<strong>Kyle Larson<\/strong>] comes down on the 19 [Briscoe], I think the 19 was cutting the 5 a break and the 8 [Busch] didn\u2019t realize it [and got in the back of the 19]. \u2026 I don\u2019t think Kyle did anything intentional, it was just a bad look.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOptically, not good because he goes in there and turns the 19, comes out of the wreck and hooks the 9. It\u2019s like what the hell is going on? Somebody said did Kyle Busch just rage quit?\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Kyle Busch, Chase Elliott collide at Richmond<\/p>\n<p>Busch\u2019s No. 8 Chevrolet somehow didn\u2019t sustain much damage. He found a way to finish 16th, while Elliott posted his first DNF of the season. <strong>Bob Pockrass<\/strong> of FOX Sports said it looked like Busch simply didn\u2019t see Elliott underneath him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 9 [Elliott] \u2014 there was somebody underneath the 9 and he couldn\u2019t go further down,\u201d Pockrass said. \u201cI don\u2019t know whether Kyle didn\u2019t think he was there or who knew how much control he had. The weird thing was Kyle\u2019s car wasn\u2019t damaged a whole lot. He was able to keep going despite hitting everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elliott saw it the same way. Unfortunately, it killed what had been a good night up to that point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, I saw them crashing, and we were all just stacking up trying to get stopped and then after the wreck was over, I thought we were done wrecking. I was just trying to squeak by, and I guess Kyle just didn\u2019t know I was to his left, and we were, so I hate that,\u201d Elliott said. \u201cWe had a good start to the night, and it just slowly unraveled until it finally fell apart. So hopefully we get on a better stretch starting next week. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 I think Kyle just didn\u2019t know that we were trying to squeeze by the wreck on the bottom. He was kind of angled back towards the bottom of the racetrack, and I was just coming through. It\u2019s just unfortunate.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 12-car wreck on Lap 198 of Saturday\u2019s NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway changed the race&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-157315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115053161639250956","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157315","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=157315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}