Michael Jordan’s NASCAR Team’s President Fires Back at Kyle Busch-Joe Gibbs Dirty Tactic Talks; NASCAR Fans Remain Unsold

The two-time NASCAR Cup Series championship winner’s misfortunes continued in all the races of the playoffs this year. All this led to the #18 driver getting knocked out in the round of 16 for the first time since the introduction of elimination-style playoffs back in 2014. And the engine failure last weekend at Bass Pro Shops Night Race in Bristol Motor Speedways was a recent mishap for Kyle Busch, the Toyota driver for Joe Gibbs Racing.

As the 37-year-old made headlines by signing his contract with Richard Childress Racing for the 2023 season. For many fans and especially for the Kyle Busch fans, this move, which led to the elimination of the #18 driver, was a master plan by Toyota, 23XI and JGR, which led to an outburst on Twitter.

A fan tweeted, “23XI cars going back on track and taking points away from Kyle Busch. Joe Gibbs trying hard to get KB eliminated“.

In reaction to this, Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan’s team president, Steve Lauletta fired back at the insinuation made by stating, “Joe Gibbs does not run 23XIRacing we do and while in an Owners Championship fight we gonna take points from anyone we can with the 45 while the 23 finished behind the 18 so there’s that,“

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Ty Gibbs and Bubba Wallace, driving the #23 and #45 for 23XI Racing in Toyota, respectively, aren’t even in the playoffs, made an attempt to overtake Busch and knock him out. The native of Las Vegas finished the race just two points below the elimination cut-off.

NASCAR Fans reacted differently to the exit of Kyle Busch

The unfavourable condition for the RCR-prone driver Kyle Busch stirred some reactions by the NASCAR community on Twitter. The move by #23 driver of 23XI, the engine failure of #18 Toyota. All of this added up to Busch’s wound in the knockout.

Fans who took this move as a purposeful screw-over responded by tweeting,

However, a few fans who thought this was a clean move by the drivers of the teams responded by tweeting,

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This will remain a topic of debate for the coming few weeks. Let us know what you think of this in the comments section below.