{"id":897643,"date":"2026-09-16T07:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T07:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/897643\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T07:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T07:44:13","slug":"two-time-nascar-champion-kyle-busch-passes-away-at-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/897643\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-Time NASCAR Champion Kyle Busch Passes Away at 41"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1-9-2.jpg\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: @wcvb5 on Instagram<\/p>\n<p hidden=\"\">Image Credit: @wcvb5 on Instagram<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ArticleHead-module__l8mj6G__authorName\" href=\"https:\/\/www.daytonaracingdigest.com\/author\/tanu-inmex\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tanu<\/a>\u00b7<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#FFF;font-family:var(--primary-font);font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:16px\">Sep 16, 2026, 6:37 AM CUT<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR champion Kyle Busch has died at age 41, according to a statement Thursday by his family, his team and NASCAR. &#8220;On behalf of the Busch family, everyone at Richard Childress Racing and all of NASCAR, we are devastated to announce the sudden and tragic passing of Kyle Busch,&#8221; the statement said. <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/nascar-champion-kyle-busch-dies-age-41-sudden\/story?id=133203673\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Busch&#8217;s <\/a>family said earlier Thursday that Busch was hospitalized and being treated for a &#8220;severe illness&#8221; and that he wouldn&#8217;t be competing this weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The statement on his death said Busch was a &#8220;once-in-a-generation talent.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was fierce, he was passionate, he was immensely talented and he cared so much about our sport and our fans,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;His quick wit, infectious smile and competitive spirit touched the lives of race fans of all ages and created the proud, loud and loyal &#8216;Rowdy Nation.'&#8221; They did not say what sort of illness Busch had or what caused his death. &#8220;NASCAR lost a giant of the sport today, far too soon,&#8221; the statement said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Busch competed full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series for Richard Childress Racing, driving the No.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>8 Chevrolet, and part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 7 Chevrolet Silverado RST for Spire Motorsports. He won the NASCAR Cup Series championship twice, in 2015 and 2019, and set records in national series wins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image Credit: @fox46charlotte on Instagram\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-13-1-1024x576.jpg\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYp0dFHEsvD\/?img_index=2&quot;\">Image Credit: @fox46charlotte on Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p hidden=\"\"><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYp0dFHEsvD\/?img_index=2&quot;\">Image Credit: @fox46charlotte on Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His two-decade career included 234 wins across all three NASCAR national series. After his last victory in a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Dover Motor Speedway on May 15, a reporter asked Busch why these moments never get old after so many wins.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/4899316617d559ce0f789d0d671481d326104ebd907d35194ad9b47fbfdb5a65.jpeg\" style=\"height:108px;width:108px;border-radius:50%;background:var(--primary-300);border:2px solid var(--primary-700)\"\/><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image Credit: @wcvb5 on Instagram Image Credit: @wcvb5 on Instagram Tanu\u00b7 Sep 16, 2026, 6:37 AM CUT NASCAR&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-897643","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\/897643","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=897643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}