Kyle Busch compares $250 million worth RCR boss Richard Childress to Super Bowl-winning JGR owner Joe Gibbs
Kyle Busch’s move from JGR to RCR was the biggest surprise of the 2022 season.
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Two-time NASCAR Cup series champion Kyle Busch ended his one-and-a-half-decade partnership with Joe Gibbs Racing ahead of the 2022 Cup season. His return to the Chevy garage has been a successful endower so far. He has already won three races this season and is fighting for a third Cup title.
Kyle Busch had the luxury of racing for three legendary team owners of the sport. He started his career driving for Rick Hendrick at HMS before joining Joe Gibbs, a three-time Super Bowl-winning football coach turner team owner at JGR. Busch is now driving for Richard Childress, who was the boss of Dale Earnhardt when he won six titles.
In a recent interview with NASCAR, Busch discussed the similarities and differences between Gibbs and Childress when asked about how he felt about driving for the RCR boss. He pointed out that at the end of the day, both are NASCAR, a.k.a a traveling circus, according to Busch, team owner, with little difference in their personalities.
“Well, he’s the boss first. So yeah, you know, just working for him. Yes Sir, No Sir, hey can we do this? and it’s just been really good. It’s been me… kind of taking the visual of what I’ve known from ‘coach’ over the years and now seeing Richard and another way of doing things. We’re all a traveling circus, and we all learn so much from just watching what others do that it’s not all that much different. It’s just the people and the personalities that are different,” Busch told Alex Weaver.
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Kyle Busch is going through a late-season slump
Busch’s start of the 2023 season was sublime, but as the post-season started, it seems the No:8 Chevy Camaro ZL1 team might have peaked too soon. Following his crash and disappointing finish at the Texas playoff race this Sunday, Busch is now the lowest-ranked driver with a 17-point deficit to the cut-line in the R-12.
In the last ten races of the 2023 Cup season, he has scored just three top-10 finishes and four finishes outside the top 30. The inconsistency in his performance isn’t expected from a championship-caliber driver. He still has the Talladega and ROVAL drum card races to prove a point and come back.
However, the driver does have some confidence issues that need to be addressed, which was evident in his words during the post-race interview. He said, “I’m a complete letdown to my team right now, not being able to get the results that we need. Every time we try, I crash. It’s like the less I try, I ride around, the better days we have.”
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