Kevin Harvick Compares Kyle Busch Death to Dale Earnhardt Sr’s Tragedy

The NASCAR community is heartbroken over the tragic passing of two times champion Kyle Busch. He passed away days after winning Dover Truck Series race owing to severe pneumonia. Hall of Famer Kevin Harvick, who raced against the late legend for almost two decades, shared his thoughts on the tragedy.

On his podcast, the ex-Cup champion pointed out that, he has been through similar heartbreak a few times in the past, starting with Dale Earnhardt’s death in the 2001 Daytona 500, that started his career in the Cup Series. He feels RCR is going though something similar to what they had to face when they lost senior.

I’ve unfortunately been through this a couple times now. You look back at everything that happened with Dale and everything that RCR (Richard Childress Racing) had to deal with, and their family, just eerily different but similar in the way we have to deal with it.

Kevin Harvick said on his podcast.

Further talking about the point, he highlighted how it was important for the sport to continue racing despite the death as it would have been what Kyle Busch wanted, just like Dale Sr. Kevin Harvick then admitted that it is going to take some significant time for the people involved to get back to normal after the tragic passing.

If you look at Kyle and what he would want is probably very similar to what Dale would have wanted. He would have wanted those cars on the racetrack, and the healing to come from the race cars on the track, and the fans and the families and people and teams being able to work their way back to normal. But it’s going to take a while.

Kevin Harvick added via Happy Hour podcast.

Brad Keselowski shares special moments with Kyle Busch and reveals big regret

One of the Kyle Busch’s bitter rivals in the Cup was Brad Keselowski and over the years they have developed mutual respect amidst the beef. The RFK Racing owner driver is already missing the veteran and in an interview with People.com revealed that last time he saw the veteran outside the track. They flew together to Dover and unfortunately couldn’t talk because Busch fell asleep as he wants feeling well.

I was flying to Dover last week with Kyle. It was probably more by chance than anything else. …Kyle is normally a fairly gregarious person, very outgoing, and he wasn’t. He sat down one row behind me and next to me and fell asleep right away, and I could tell he wasn’t feeling well… And that was pretty much the last time I saw him. We were in a race, and you get in a race, and you don’t really see each other. So, I saw him on the racetrack.

Brad Keselowski told the People.

Furthermore, he admitted that he had some visions of them finally ending their beef after retirement. He was hoping to share the Hall of Fame stage and laugh about their rivalry. Unfortunately, the Ford veteran would never be able to have that beautiful moment and that would be remain as a big regret for him.

I guess I had visions before his death of… actually, I thought about this multiple times: What’s it going to be like when we’re both in the Hall of Fame, and we’re doing some kind of ceremony together, whatever that might be? Will the hatchet be buried? I think so. And will we actually be able to share a laugh about it? I guess in my mind, I hope so, and now obviously not.

Brad Keselowski added.

The comments from the two veteran racers about Kyle Busch shows how much they respected the moments they shared on the track. It would be interesting to see how the legacy of the late RCR driver is going to live through his rivals’ turned friends.

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