Kyle Busch confesses to committing a forgery to enter legends series races in his teens
Kyle Busch’s junior career is filled with impressive success and controversies.
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Two times NASCAR Cup series champion Kyle Busch is one of his generation’s greatest stock car racing drivers. From a young age, he and his brother Kurt Busch established themselves as prodigies in their home in Las Vegas and then went on to do the same in the country. While talking to former Cup driver Kyle Petty, Busch admitted taking a few illegal pathways to Fastrack his career.
Busch revealed to Kyle Petty that when he was 13, he entered the Legends Series race in his hometown of Vegas and other cities such as Salt Lake and Lake Havasu. But the minimum age to race Legends cars is 14 years. He altered his birth certificate to prove that he was 14 when he was just 13 years old. The fight with more experienced campaigners helped him to become a formidable driver.
“When I got my start, though, it was Legends cars. I raced in Vegas, I raced in Salt Lake City, Lake Havasu City, but I was 13 when I started. We’re supposed to be 14. I was 13. I may or may not have worked on my birth certificate to get me ahead. So I’m 13, supposed to be 14, running Legends Cars,” Busch told Petty.
Altering the birth certificate intending to circumvent the regulations falls under forgery. While it might not be as serious as a major counterfeiting/altering of documents to defraud someone, it still falls under the category. In the state of Nevada, Kyle Busch’s home state, forgery is a category D felony, and once convicted should be paying up to $5K-$10K in fines or 1 to 4 years in jail. A child older than 13 can be charged with a felony.
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Kyle Busch was caught and got kicked out of the series the next year
The 2009 Xfinity Series champion was able to avoid a ban and have a successful outing in the Legends car series. But he was caught once he took the next step in racing. He enrolled in the modified car racing as he was on paper 15 at 14. He started running modified dirt races.
But during an event that year one of his rival caught him after an aggressive move for the podium by Busch. The rival was on his way to fight the young Busch when he realized it was just a kid. With the help of a report, the driver uncovered the truth about the current RCR driver, and he was kicked out of the series.
“So now I turn 14, technically I’m 15, so I’m allowed to run Modifieds. So I’m on dirt racing, and I moved a guy out of the way for third place one night. I finished third, and after the race, he wants to fight,” Busch said.
“He goes, ‘Oh, my God, he’s just a kid.’ So he called the newspaper guy who ran public records and had him dig into public records — ‘How old is Kyle Busch?’ Figured out I was a year younger than I was supposed to [be], turned me in, so it got me kicked out,” Busch added.
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