{"id":304534,"date":"2026-05-22T13:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/304534\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T13:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:39:08","slug":"kyle-busch-dies-at-41-leaving-long-texas-motor-speedway-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/304534\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Busch dies at 41, leaving long Texas Motor Speedway legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Busch, 41, died of a \u201csevere illness\u201d however a specific cause of death has not been released. Busch is survived by his wife Samantha and their two children.<\/p>\n<p>Busch became unresponsive while testing in the Chevrolet racing simulator in Concord, North Carolina, on Wednesday and was transported to the hospital, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/article\/kyle-busch-was-more-than-a-villain-and-the-22271830.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Associated Press reported.<\/a>\u00a0 Just 11 days before his death, he radioed\u00a0crew members during a Cup Series race at Watkins Glen and asked a doctor to give him a \u201cshot\u201d when he finished the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Busch racked up 234 wins in his career, 20 of those at the Texas Motor Speedway in Forth Worth across\u00a0NASCAR&#8217;s top three national series, which includes four Cup Series victories, 10 Xfinity (formerly Nationwide) Series victories, and six Truck Series victories, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/kyle-buschs-remarkable-career-included-011742786.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAM549eRZMKY7D-t_8ksoJJDht0pM4YqNPI8dq4uvCgRFKsTE0rK-66aenx0eCkO8Rfug-M_ChTyncuANbvC4pQHTQDWI07JqjEHB0-DAFQNsSqX_0QFiV-evdBUC-dEP6WrkFmQYCKDf_0TES_fHZ5B0QZLL1DrrvP1SuAoiZoPK\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo Sports reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of his major race victories in Texas:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Busch, 41, died of a \u201csevere illness\u201d however a specific cause of death has not been released. Busch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41346,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-304534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-conroecp","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}