Nobody expected the Richard Childress Racing duo of Kyle Busch and Austin Dillon to be world-beaters during the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season, but RCR is off to a historically bad start to the 2026 campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For the first time since 1982, RCR has failed to score a top-10 finish in the first six races of a season. That stat takes on more meaning this season given that RCR is putting two full-time entries on the track along with a part-time third car for drivers Jesse Love and Austin Hill.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The last time RCR went six races into a year without recording a top 10 was 1982, when a then-25-year-old Ricky Rudd struggled in his first year with the organization before breaking through with a ninth-place run at North Wilkesboro.<\/p>\n
Kyle Busch, Austin Dillon need momentum<\/p>\n
Busch and Dillon need a similar shot in the arm this weekend at Martinsville.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nobody expected the Richard Childress Racing duo of Kyle Busch and Austin Dillon to be world-beaters during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-559300","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\/559300","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=559300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}