Chase Elliott wants to be there for Brexton Busch, the 11-year-old son of NASCAR legend Kyle Busch, who died last month.<\/p>\n
Elliott had his father, NASCAR Hall of Famer Bill Elliott, to look up to throughout his racing career. He wants to make sure that Brexton Busch has someone to look up to as well.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI will throw my name out there now and for as long as needed, if I was ever to be needed for help, I hope Brexton knows that I\u2019m a phone call away here, whatever, to try and lend a helping hand,\u201c Chase Elliott said<\/a>. \u201cI can\u2019t promise that I would have as much knowledge to offer him as his dad, but I certainly would be more than willing to offer anything I do have to give him to help, because I\u2019ve lived a lot of what he\u2019s going to likely see in the coming years of his career. And I would be more than honored to help in any way that I could when those days get there for him.\u201d<\/p>\n Brexton is a third-generation driver, following in the footsteps of his grandfather Tom Busch and father Kyle Busch.<\/p>\n Brexton, 11, has been racing since he was 5.<\/p>\n \u201cI know how much Brexton meant to him,\u201c Elliott said. \u201dI grew up in a very similar manner, growing up around the race track and seeing some of those things. Such a shame that he\u2019s not going to have the opportunity to see some of the things that my dad has got to see. Just really, really tough.\u201d<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Kyle Busch, who won the NASCAR Cup Series championship in 2015 and 2019, died last month after \u201csevere pneumonia progressed into sepsis, resulting in rapid and overwhelming associated complications,\u201d his family said<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n Busch won the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Dover Motor Speedway on Friday, May 15. He died on Thursday, May 21.<\/p>\n \u201cJust obviously a lot of emotion and just want to express my support to Samantha and Brexton and Lennix and just the whole Busch family,\u201d Elliott said.<\/p>\n \u201cThat family is still going to have difficult times ahead. They\u2019re going to need support from this community that does mean a lot to them. I certainly intend to do that if I\u2019m ever called upon to be asked for help or anything like that. Would be more than willing to try and do what I can.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the original article on lehighvalleylive.com<\/a>. Add lehighvalleylive.com<\/a> as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chase Elliott wants to be there for Brexton Busch, the 11-year-old son of NASCAR legend Kyle Busch, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[96418,117700,49,48,4387,8661,634,82,259418],"class_list":["post-716354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-bill-elliott","tag-brexton-busch","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chase-elliott","tag-kyle-busch","tag-nascar","tag-sports","tag-tom-busch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716354","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=716354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}