“Pushing a Cooked Noodle” – Kyle Busch Reveals Horrifying Details of His Career-Threatening Crash

NASCAR is and always has been a competitive sport. The tremendous speed, the congestion, and the vulnerability of getting caught in someone else’s mess, all of this make the sport a risky, yet thrilling endeavor. As a result, there have been plenty of instances when a driver gets gravely injured. Kyle Busch recently detailed one of those times when he suffered such an injury.

Unfortunately, driving in NASCAR has turned out to be dangerous, even tragic, for quite a few racers. The sport already lost its crown jewel when in February 2001, Dale Earnhardt Sr crashed in the final lap of the Daytona 500. Such fatalities have not since occurred, as technical and technological improvements have made the sport much more safer. One of the drivers to have benefitted from such improvements is Kyle Busch.

Kyle Busch describes the minute details of his career-threatening injury

The two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion recently spoke on The Residency Podcast. Busch talked about his experience of getting involved in a crash in 2015. It was during the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Daytona 500 in February 2015 that the incident took place.

He said, “So start of the season, trying to win that race, I’m pushing my teammate. I see a hole open up through the middle and I want to push him and get the run started, and I started my push too soon. I spin him out, he gets crooked and then comes back across the track and I shoot the middle and we never touch.”

He continued, “He never hits me but his air off the nose of his car turns my car. And so I spin all the way across the inside of the racetrack and into a concrete wall and I break my right leg and my left foot. Double compound fracture on my right leg and then you know mid-foot break on the left foot.”

With these severe injuries, it got more challenging for the former Joe Gibbs Racing driver. He said, “And so after that like I’m trying to get out of the car, the car catches a little fire and I’m like I gotta get out I try to push it with my right leg and it’s just nothing you know. It’s yeah [like] spaghetti exactly, it’s like pushing a cooked noodle.”

Interestingly, even in that critical situation, Busch kept his composure when nothing was working for him. He explained, “And then you know, I’m like, okay, I’ll use my left foot. I try to push with my left foot and I’m like, okay left foot not good either. So, I just pulled myself up to the door sat on the door.”

Fortunately, the Richard Childress Racing driver did get out in time. He said, “And [I] then asked for the safety workers to come over and help me get me to the ground and then they help keep my leg elevated and got me in the ambulance and went on my merry way.” Who knows what would have happened had it taken more time!

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Busch had a lucky escape there, both his life and career were in jeopardy. It seems Daytona hasn’t been the safest of tracks for him, especially after what happened in 2012.

Busch escaped with his life in a dangerous last-lap crash at Daytona

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The 2023 Auto Club 400 winner took part in the 2012 Drive4COPD. In the final lap of the race, multiple cars bumped into each other, resulting in a serious crash.

Busch was one of those involved in the crash. One observer explained the intensity of the incident. He said, “His [Busch’s] car took that hit rather well. It was mostly a square hit, not at a horribly oblique angle, and the front of the car crumpled like it should.”

However, he explained how Busch survived the impact. He said, “The compression of the front of the car absorbs energy from the crash and lowers the deceleration rate so it’s easier on the occupant. I’m sure it still wasn’t pleasant for him, but compared to some other hits we’ve seen that one was surprisingly tame from a crashworthiness perspective.”

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It seems Busch and Daytona don’t get along in any sense. No wonder he is still waiting to get a victory there, even after 18 starts.