“I Felt Disgraceful” – Kyle Busch Couldn’t Hold Back His Emotions After the Annoying Daytona500

Perhaps the fuel mileage racing has gone too far. The Daytona 500 race was everything that one would expect, and as far as Kyle Busch is concerned, he was not a fan of how things unfolded at the event. Going into the race, every driver and team were prepared to work on their fuel mileage tactics. But the manner in which the entire race unfolded was a hard watch for the fans.

While the Great American Race had all the action one would seek from such a race, unfortunately, the event is now seemingly losing its charm because of fuel mileage racing. While most of the teams and drivers have refrained from speaking out against it, Kyle Busch certainly did not hold any punches, giving his unfiltered take on last Monday’s race.

Gutted by his experience, Kyle Busch, speaking to NBC reporter Dustin Long, shared his opinion on fuel saving during the 66th running of the Daytona 500. “Pathetic. How slow are we going to go? I felt bad for the fans. That’s not racing. It’s riding. … Doing what we were doing last week, you might as well pull cars out of the parking lot and run rental cars around.”

Despite Rowdy’s criticism of the race, he came up with an optimal solution to put an end to this trend of fuel-saving races at Superspeedways. “There was no solution in the Chevy meeting, my suggestion was shrink the fuel tank by half. Pitting separates the field.” One might disagree with Busch’s extreme suggestion, but something has to give in for the drivers to start racing on the Ovals.

Most drivers choose to stay tight-lipped on such matters. But even before Kyle Busch expressed his discontent with Monday’s race, Denny Hamlin was quick to point out the growing concern for Cup Series races on Superspeedways.

After Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin provides a solution to curb fuel mileage racing in the Cup Series

Call him the villain or your favorite driver’s foe, but when it comes to speaking about issues in NASCAR, no one does it better than Denny Hamlin. Speaking on his podcast show “Actions Detrimental,” the JGR driver explained the sudden surge in fuel saving on Superspeedway tracks. Doing so, he also pointed out how limited options the drivers have while racing in such venues, thus resorting to fuel mileage racing.

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“In my opinion, If I had the knobs to turn on the Cup Series to make the Superspeedway racing better., it is to put it back like it used to be in a sense of, they need to run faster by themselves. To do that, they need to take some of the spoiler off to create more of the bubble so we’re not running into each other.”

Going into the Atlanta race this weekend, it will be interesting to see how other drivers feel about the issue and how different their approach is at the venue.