After Kyle Busch won three races in 2023, Richard Childress Racing got their hands smacked by NASCAR officials<\/p>\n
Kyle Busch is currently in his 24th season of NASCAR Cup Series competition. He collected 63 wins and he\u2019s 9th on the all-time winner\u2019s list.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s one the greatest to ever do it.<\/p>\n
However, lately Busch\u2019s struggling performance has been in the spotlight. Comments from Denny Hamlin has put it in the headlines.<\/p>\n
Kyle Busch threatens Denny Hamlin after comments on his performance<\/a><\/p>\n Beginning with the 2023 season, Kyle Busch left Joe Gibbs Racing after 15 years with the team. He signed with Richard Childress Racing as the driver of the No. 8 car.<\/p>\n Initially, things were going every well. Busch picked up three wins in the first 15 races of the season with the new team. However, since the win at Gateway in the 2023 season, the No. 8 team has gone without a win.<\/p>\n What happened?<\/p>\n Busch is now 40-years-old. His age has been speculated as a reason for a performance decline. But, there may be something behind the scenes from that last win at Gateway that hasn\u2019t surfaced until now. <\/p>\n While speaking on a podcast, Busch details that after that win in the 2023 at Gateway, NASCAR rules officials were not happy with something RCR did to the car.<\/p>\n Busch kept the win and the team wasn\u2019t penalized. But they were told not to do that again. \u201cDon\u2019t bring it back,\u201d officials told the team. <\/p>\n Kyle Busch details when NASCAR officials got to RCR<\/p>\n \u201cThey were ahead of the game,\u201d Kyle Busch stated of the 2023 performance with RCR via Sean Hannity.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd, as everybody\u2019s learned this car, the little tricks of the trade and we haven\u2019t really come up with anymore advancements to it. So, we\u2019ve fallen behind.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn 2023 when I won those three races, after the third race that we won at Gateway, we got our hands smacked for some of the stuff that we were doing to the race car that NASCAR didn\u2019t like and said \u2018don\u2019t bring that back.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s happened over the course of NASCAR for 78 years.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt wasn\u2019t anything, like, against the rules. It was just, you always exploit the gray area. So we exploited a gray area and we found something and we had an advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s cheating, without cheating. It makes it faster. You want more downforce, it makes it lighter. These cars, you wanna travel the car more because there\u2019s rules and limitations around all that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n Current performance at RCR<\/p>\n Kyle Busch also spoke to some of the things going on regarding RCR performance currently\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cThe thing a lot of fans don\u2019t really understand of our sport is how much goes into everything at the shop. The technology, the building of the race cars.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe tiniest details, you can\u2019t see it with the naked eye. We\u2019re talking 40-thousands of an inch. That\u2019s the difference of being able to win a race or finish 5th.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re starting to see the top 5 guys, are the same top 5 guys every week. I think it\u2019s just the good cars are the good cars and they\u2019re all from the same team. Hendrick Motorsports, Joe Gibbs Racing, Penske Racing so before you even go to the race track, you\u2019re racing for 12th.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNow, there\u2019s other teams that are becoming better than we are.\u201d<\/p>\n Kyle Busch on Sean Hannity (Video)<\/p>\n Links<\/p>\n Kyle Busch<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Kyle Busch won three races in 2023, Richard Childress Racing got their hands smacked by NASCAR officials…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,3140,8661,634,3628,8354,10031,197275,9536,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-619538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cup-series","11":"tag-kyle-busch","12":"tag-nascar","13":"tag-nascar-cup","14":"tag-nascar-cup-series","15":"tag-ncs","16":"tag-rcr","17":"tag-richard-childress-racing","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619538","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=619538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}