{"id":696833,"date":"2026-05-27T09:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/696833\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:35:16","slug":"austin-hill-will-again-drive-kyle-buschs-nascar-cup-car-this-weekend-at-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/696833\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Hill will again drive Kyle Busch\u2019s NASCAR Cup car this weekend at Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Childress Racing has announced that Austin Hill will again drive Kyle Busch\u2019s NASCAR Cup Series entry following the tragic death of the 41-year-old NASCAR legend.<\/p>\n<p>Amid a sorrowful and rainy weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Hill drove the car in the Coca-Cola 600 as the garage mourned Busch\u2019s passing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/all\/news\/rcr-will-no-longer-use-kyle-buschs-no-8-plans-to-reserve-it-for-brexton-busch\/10823050\/\" data-custom-text=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RCR suspended its use of the No. 8 ahead of the Charlotte race,<\/a> changing the entrant number to the No. 33.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/austin-hill-no-33-richard-chil.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Hill, No. 33 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, pays tribute to Kyle Busch\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Austin Hill, No. 33 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet, pays tribute to Kyle Busch<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Jeff Robinson\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The weekend began with a somber ceremony in the garage, as the No. 33 and No. 3 team car of Austin Dillon unloaded first as the rest of the field watched on. On race day, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/nascar-cup\/news\/the-family-of-kyle-busch-appears-ahead-of-coca-cola-600-in-heart-wrenching-moment\/10823953\/\" data-custom-text=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Busch family was in attendance for a pre-race tribute, which included a rendition of &#8216;Amazing Grace&#8217; on the bagpipes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With no name above the door and a black No. 8 decal beside the No. 33, Hill competed in NASCAR\u2019s longest race. Hill, who competes full-time in the NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Series, ended the race one lap down in 27th. It was his 18th career start in the Cup Series.<\/p>\n<p>Hill has never run a Cup race at Nashville before, and his best finish at the top level of NASCAR is ninth at the Chicago Street Course last summer. Hill has a best finish of fourth at Nashville in the O&#8217;Reilly Series, and ninth there in Trucks.<\/p>\n<p>There are a total of 38 entries for the Cup race at Nashville, including the open entries of Chad Finchun (No. 66 Garage 66 Ford) and Corey\u00a0Heim (No. 67 23XI Racing Toyota).<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779874516_579_tribute-to-kyle-busch.jpg\" alt=\"Tribute to Kyle Busch\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Tribute to Kyle Busch<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: David Jensen \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Childress Racing has announced that Austin Hill will again drive Kyle Busch\u2019s NASCAR Cup Series entry following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[21262,254177,49,48,8661,634,3628,7595,57580,9536,82],"class_list":["post-696833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-austin-hill","tag-austin-hill-will-again-drive-kyle-buschu2019s-nascar-cup-car-this-weekend-at-nashville","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-kyle-busch","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-superspeedway","tag-richard-childress-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696833","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=696833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}