{"id":276459,"date":"2025-10-04T06:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/276459\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T06:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:14:11","slug":"nascar-insider-names-cup-series-team-that-would-love-to-have-kyle-busch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/276459\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR insider names Cup Series team that would ‘love to have’ Kyle Busch"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you have forgotten, which is easy to do lately, Kyle Busch is still racing for Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR <\/a>Cup Series. Busch has been a non-factor for weeks, if not months at this point. With an extension through 2026, it makes you wonder what the two-time champion is going to do. <\/p>\n

Clearly, things at RCR started off hot and have since cooled off. While other teams made strides and are winning races with consistency, Kyle Busch is struggling to find the Top 20 lately.<\/p>\n

Since his P10 finish at Sonoma, Busch has only one more Top 10 finish in the last 11 races, P8 at Darlington. His best finish outside of that, P11 at Dover.<\/p>\n

Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports was on Kevin Harvick\u2019s Happy Hour <\/a>this week. The two talked about RCR and Kyle Busch. What does the future have in store for the team and driver? <\/p>\n

\u201cI think Kyle Busch wins again, I just don\u2019t know whether it\u2019s at RCR or not,\u201d Pockrass said. \u201cLook, I think Spire would like to have him and see what they can do with him. You know, sounds like he\u2019s, you know, as they\u2019ve all said, staying for next year. But you know he can\u2019t be happy. And if they continue to run the way they\u2019ve been, he\u2019ll want to leave. I think that\u2019s the challenge now, getting a new crew chief.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you bring somebody in who is probably wondering, \u2018Gosh, am I coming in to crew chief Kyle Busch? And is that just going to be one year? Or am I being brought in to crew chief Kyle Busch for a year and then maybe either Austin Hill, Jesse Love, or somebody else?’\u201d<\/p>\n

Kyle Busch is racing without direction <\/p>\n

Right now, it feels like Kyle Busch is just going out there and fighting his cars. There is no comfort and no feel and no speed. Hell, Austin Dillon has won two races since Busch won his last race. Whatever he needs out of these cars to succeed, RCR isn\u2019t able to give him right now. <\/p>\n

There really isn\u2019t an answer in sight. After last season, it was hard to imagine this team getting any worse. Yet, they seem to have found a way to get even slower this year. It just feels like a rudderless ship in the ocean, getting thrown this way and that. <\/p>\n

How much longer can Kyle Busch afford to stay at RCR? In my mind, the move to Spire makes the most sense, and I was shocked to see there wasn\u2019t, or hasn\u2019t been yet, a contract buyout. With how Justin Haley has performed compared to Michael McDowell and Carson Hocevar, why not give that seat to Busch? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In case you have forgotten, which is easy to do lately, Kyle Busch is still racing for Richard…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":276460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-276459","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\/115314430003728939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276459","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=276459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}