‘I don’t think the win here tonight really says anything about our season,’ Kyle Busch reviews his 2022 season following his first win in the Next-Gen car

‘I don’t think the win here tonight really says anything about our season,’ Kyle Busch reviews his 2022 season following his first win in the Next-Gen car

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The 2022 season has been a struggle so far for the 2-times cup series champion and Joe Gibbs Racing veteran Kyle Busch until the last Sunday when he was finally able to secure a much-awaited race win coming at the Food City Dirt race.

Kyle Busch secured his Bristol win after he was able to get into the right time at the right place to steal a victory from race leaders Tyler Reddick and Chase Briscoe after they spun each other out in an effort to finish high in the final lap of the race. The win comes as a big morale boost for the No:18 team as the veteran had to endure a number of average finishes and a streak of bad luck in the Next-Gen car.

Now Kyle Busch has come forth receiving his 2022 season so far suggesting the Bristol win does not represent how the season has been playing out for him so far.

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Kyle Busch acknowledged that he doesn’t think the Bristol win says anything about what the 2022 season so far has been for the no:18 team. He went on to suggest that he had a shot at winning at Atlanta, Daytona, Vegas, and Richmond whereas the other tracks have been about salvaging a good finish for him. Kyle Busch added that he has messed up on multiple occasions in those races.  

“I don’t think the win here tonight really says anything about our season. We all have had some vocal meetings this year with some struggles and things like that. I would say realistically, we’ve had a shot – take out the two speedway races, Atlanta and Daytona, there are seven others. I’d say realistically, we’ve had a shot to win two of those: Vegas and Richmond,” Kyle Busch said.

“All of the rest of them have literally been 15th to 20th places, and we are just scrounging to get whatever we could get out of those days. A couple of them we messed up on, threw them away. I was running third or going for third on the last lap at COTA and ended up spinning out. That was a bad day,” Kyle Busch added.

Kyle Busch went on to suggest that bad luck and misfortunes have been a major challenge for him even though his Toyota was offering enough speed saying “We’ve just had some bad luck. Maybe Fontana we were faster than we thought, but it’s just not been our typical Joe Gibbs Racing and Toyota having speed every week,”.

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