{"id":415208,"date":"2026-01-17T11:32:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415208\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:32:30","slug":"kyle-busch-offers-seven-word-warning-to-tony-stewart-ahead-of-nascar-return-at-daytona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/415208\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Busch offers seven-word warning to Tony Stewart ahead of NASCAR return at Daytona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kaulig Racing announced<\/a> Tuesday that Tony Stewart will drive the No. 25 Ram truck in the 2026 NASCAR<\/a> Truck Series regular season opener at Daytona International Speedway. Kyle Busch predicted a rude awakening for Stewart in what will be the Hall of Famer\u2019s first Truck start since 2005. <\/p>\n

\u201cI need to get him one of my shirts I wore there a few years ago where this is the most expensive day of the year for the owners,\u201d Busch said, via\u00a0Peter Stratta\u00a0of\u00a0TSJSports<\/a>. \u201cI hope he doesn\u2019t plan on finishing.\u201d<\/p>\n

No, Busch wasn\u2019t taking a shot at Stewart\u2019s abilities behind the wheel. Rather, Busch was being honest to what it\u2019s like racing at Daytona in the modern era. <\/p>\n

Busch has been outspoken about the current state of NASCAR and the decline in driver etiquette. With the win-and-in, elimination style championship format now in the past, some have wondered if the new \u201cChase\u201d style format will see the end of dive bombs and other overly aggressive moves. Busch isn\u2019t convinced. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you watch all the children that race all year long in the ARCAs and the Late Models and other things and you see that stuff already, they\u2019re taught from a very young age to dive bomb and run into them and door that guy,\u201d Busch said. \u201cBeing a dad, I\u2019ve heard those words and maybe I\u2019ve said those words once or twice. I don\u2019t think it will change a whole lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tony Stewart is back in NASCAR for one night only<\/p>\n

Stewart will have to find out for himself just how much the sport has changed since he\u2019s been away. Stewart will drive a Kaulig entry as part of Ram\u2019s \u201cFree Agent Driver Program.\u201d The 54-year-old last competed in NASCAR in 2016 before retiring from full-time competition. He has made just six career starts in Truck, the last coming in 2005 with Kevin Harvick Incorporated. Stewart is a two-time winner in the series, winning at Richmond Raceway in 2002 and again in 2003.<\/p>\n

Stewart is one of the most decorated wheelmen of all-time. He is a three-time Cup Series champion with 49 wins in the series. Stewart has also won championships in the\u00a0IndyCar Series,\u00a0USAC\u00a0and\u00a0IROC. He now competes in\u00a0NHRA\u00a0where in 2025, he won the Top Fuel regular season championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve raced just about everything with four wheels at Daytona, but never a truck. So, when a seat in the new Ram was offered up for their first race back in NASCAR, I didn\u2019t hesitate,\u201d Stewart said in a statement. \u201cRam\u2019s Free Agent program is another great way for me to stay sharp and have a little fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kaulig Racing announced Tuesday that Tony Stewart will drive the No. 25 Ram truck in the 2026 NASCAR…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-415208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}