“He’s Done It Multiple Times”: Ricky Stenhouse Jr Exposes Kyle Busch’s Constant Annoyance That Cost Him a Punch

The most dramatic moment of the NASCAR season unfolded a day ago. And in the process, Kyle Busch might have regained his long-lost villain badge that Denny Hamlin sported. The rowdy Richard Childress Racing driver has a penchant for wreaking vengeance. Even though Ricky Stenhouse Jr’s initial fidgety moves rattled him at best, they were enough to push Busch into vengeful mode.

After Kyle Busch wrecked Stenhouse and threw him out of the race, the latter was not too happy either. Yet the JTG Daugherty driver tried his best to keep his cool until Busch’s verbal antics worsened his mood. Stenhouse recently elaborated on this in a podcast.

Kyle Busch’s running mouth awarded him with a fist

After the All-Star Race settled and Joey Logano rejoiced in his victory, fireworks crackled in the sky. But some ground fireworks were also underway. When Kyle Busch stormed to his hauler, Ricky Stenhouse Jr was waiting for him. Instead of regretting spinning the latter out just two laps into the race, Busch went into defensive mode. He accused Stenhouse of starting it, and this escalated into tensions which ultimately ended in a bitter brawl.

In a recent episode of Stacking Pennies, Stenhouse broached the hot topic. Initially, he did not anticipate getting wrecked when Busch bumped him. “It was wide open… “I wasn’t really mad. He hit me, I was like, alright, everything should be fine,” he said, while adding, “And then he got me second time. Dude had destroyed that car for not going very fast.”

In retaliation, Ricky Stenhouse Jr parked his battered car at Kyle Busch’s pit stall in protest. He gave a simple reason for this: “Well, he does that all the time. Like he’s done it multiple times…I wasn’t sure, it was just spur of the moment.”

Stenhouse was prepared to be reasonable. After parking in the No. 8 RCR pit box, he talked with Busch’s crew chief, Randall Burnett, assuring him that he had nothing against the crew. “I was like, let’s see what happens. If there was some sort of, ‘Hey, I crossed the line…’I didn’t think that was gonna come from him…But I was like, maybe I’ll be calm if he says, ‘Hey, I messed up, crossed the line, crashed you on purpose for no reason…’I think I probably would’ve handled it.”

But as it turned out, Kyle Busch’s defensive attitude blew the fuse in Stenhouse’s head and he landed a solid punch on Rowdy’s jaw.

As Ricky Stenhouse Jr pointed out, Kyle Busch’s nonchalant attitude is old, as past veterans had also pointed out.

Busch’s supposed snobbery began in his early days

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Kyle Busch entered the Sprint Cup Series in 2005 and immediately got branded with a unique trait. Amidst a dearth of wins, people assumed he was just a whiner when things went south. Veteran Darrell Waltrip thought that once the wins started coming, Busch would stop whining, and would become a great ambassador to the sport.

But they grew worse, as Kyle Busch seemingly became arrogant with his successes. According to many, he spoke with a tone of voice, letting people know that he was the sole person entitled to win a race. For instance, Busch once finished second to Tony Stewart in a Sonoma race. The then-JGR driver made his emotions clear in post-race interviews, and stated how he was almost insulted that only a second place was afforded to him while a “punk” snatched the trophy from him.

And then, almost a decade ago, in 2017, Kyle Busch entangled with Joey Logano in a pit lane brawl in the after a Las Vegas race that left him bloodied. “I got dumped. He flat out just drove straight in the corner and wrecked me. That’s how Joey races, so he’s going to get it,” Busch had warned at the time. After the altercation, Joey also revealed what went down: “There wasn’t much talking, just a lot of swinging. I was racing hard there at end.”

Although Kyle Busch has improved this attitude over the years, it seems to be crawling back as was evident in the All-Star Race. Do you think Kyle Busch will be able to keep his cool as he battles on-track woes that push him farther away from his Cup championship aspirations?