Kyle Busch claims he came to the Tulsa shootout as a ‘normal joe’ despite Superstar treatment

Kyle Busch was a star presence at this season’s Tulsa Shootout.

Kyle Busch claims he came to the Tulsa shootout as a ‘normal joe’ despite Superstar treatment

Samantha and Kyle Busch with childrens Lennix and Brexton (Via IMAGO)

Two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch attended this year’s Tulsa Shootout with his son Brexton Busch. They raced in selected events of their age group and produced some solid races. The Richard Childress Racing driver was the most high-profile individual at the event and was treated as a superstar by many.

But Busch didn’t come to the event expecting to be treated as such. Instead, he came as a normal Joe, a dad wanting to have fun with his son on the race track. He detailed how the fans treated him at the track, saying some saw him as a superstar while others stopped by and had some intriguing conversations with him.

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There’s a lot of people, who see me as a superstar. I’d see me as a normal ‘Joe’ just here wanting to have fun with my kid. Everybody is respectful. They come up and say, ‘Hey, what’s going on?’ They want to hear a little bit about your story, a little bit about what you did through the year, then it’s on to business from there.
Busch said via Channel 6.

Kyle Busch will soon start his preparation for the Daytona 500, the 2024 season opener. He is one of the few NASCAR Cup champions never to win the prestigious event and will be hoping to end the streak with his second attempt in an RCR car next year. With the solid performance RCR had in the superspeedway events in 2023, fans can bet on the Chevy team to compete this year as well.

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Kyle Busch is guiding Brexton Busch’s racing career in the direction

The NASCAR Cup Series now has some of the most talented drivers ever on the grid, and dirt racers are a big part of them.  2021 NASCAR Cup champion Kyle Larson, Joe Gibbs Racing’s youngster Christopher Bell, and Daytona 500 winner Ricky Stenhouse Jr., the list of accomplished dirt racers on the grid continues.

Kyle Busch and Brexton Busch
Kyle Busch and Brexton Busch

Busch hopes to get his son on the list of dirt racing graduates to make it to the premier NASCAR division. Dirt racing will help him learn valuable lessons about car control from a very young age, which he can use to his advantage as he progresses through divisions.

The RCR driver hopes to help his son get into the NASCAR Truck Series before retiring. His initial goal was to hand over his Truck seat at Kyle Busch Motorsports to Brexton once he came up the rank, but after the sale of KBM, plans could have changed, but the ultimate goal remained the same.

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