{"id":15483,"date":"2025-07-22T13:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15483\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:20:07","slug":"nascar-news-kyle-busch-gives-prickly-response-to-cup-series-rivals-old-and-scared-jab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15483\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR News: Kyle Busch gives prickly response to Cup Series rival’s ‘old and scared’ jab"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyle Busch<\/a> has hit back at a fellow NASCAR Cup Series<\/a> driver, who had branded him ‘old and scared’ last week. <\/p>\n

\nRookie Shane van Gisbergen<\/a>, only four years younger than Busch himself, had made the comments on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio<\/a> about running in the Legends Pro division at Charlotte Motor Speedway with IndyCar driver and countryman Scott McLaughlin. <\/p>\n

\nREAD MORE: Kyle Busch dealt playoff blow as multiple drivers drop down the order at Dover<\/a> <\/p>\n

\nWhen asked about Kyle’s son Brexton Busch competing in the Summer Shootout, the Kiwi said: \u201cYeah, he\u2019s in the younger classes though. He is a little bit young and then Kyle\u2019s a little bit old and scared. He is in the masters class. He doesn\u2019t race with us, so that would\u2019ve been fun.\u201d <\/p>\n

\nWhile Van Gisbergen was pretty clearly joking, age and pace are an active concern for future Hall of Famer Busch, whose winless streak in the Cup Series is nearly at 80 races and is the longest of his career. <\/p>\n

Busch: Ask SVG how many times he’s finished Legends Pro races<\/p>\n

\nMeanwhile, Van Gisbergen has come into the Cup Series and taken three wins in his first full-time season, dominating road courses despite still being very much a work in progress on ovals. <\/p>\n

\nSpeaking after Saturday’s rained-off qualifying session at Dover, Busch fired back: \u201c\u200aIn Legends cars, if you\u2019re over 40, you can run in the masters class, which I\u2019m a professional \u2013 yes, I race on Sundays, I get it, I should be in the pro class. <\/p>\n

\n“Well, the pro class you can be anywhere from 12 all the way to wherever. And there\u2019s just a bunch of these kids that \u200aare pros that get that designation that go out there and they love to just run into everything. <\/p>\n

\n\u200a\u201dAnd so I raced the pro class down in Florida earlier this year. I don\u2019t think I finished one of those pro races because I got hit every single time I was on the racetrack and got taken out. So I was like, I am not gonna go run with the kids and get tore up. I\u2019m gonna go run with the old man group and we\u2019re gonna respect each other and take care of each other. <\/p>\n

\n\u201cAsk Shane how many races he\u2019s actually finished in the pro class. Or how many bumpers or fenders or tow links he\u2019s knocked off in the legends cars. You know, my car\u2019s been clean and green and we\u2019ve won a few times, so it\u2019s been much more fun having my stuff come back after a race in one piece.\u201d <\/p>\n

\nYeah, Kyle. You tell him. <\/p>\n

\nREAD MORE: Joey Logano punished as NASCAR confirm SEVEN drivers hit with same penalty at Dover<\/a><\/p>\n

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