In the world of motorsports, rivalries fuel the competition and make the drivers chase records set by others to prove they are better and faster. And the race this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway is no exception to this. In the modern world of social media, sometimes instead of the racetrack, X (formerly Twitter) becomes the battleground for the drivers. And no other driver embodies that fighting spirit more than ‘Rowdy’ himself.
Recently Kyle Busch took to X, replying to the tweet of Kyle Larson winning the Truck Series race as he attempts to match Busch’s record of the trifecta of winning all three series races in one weekend, a feat that he achieved twice at Bristol, in 2010 and 2017.
When asked about his tweet and his views on Larson attempting to match his record, Busch did not hold back, as usual. “Yeah. I mean, I did it first. So, you know, I feel like, you know, I sent out the tweet because Larson’s cherry picking at Homestead. You know what I mean? Like, obviously, this is his place. He’s known to be super, super good here, super comfortable running the wall. So you get a lot of benefit from that, and so he’s one of the best at doing it. So he’s probably got the best shot of that.”
This weekend, as Kyle Larson arrived at Homestead to take on the challenge and write his name in the history books. Reacting to this, Busch had already made his thoughts known with just a simple tweet, “ @KyleLarsonRacin.” The possibility of Larson being the most recent Cup driver was a possibility. During the truck race, he pulled off a miracle win. After spinning out in the race, Larson made a desperate charge through the field, overtaking a mechanical failure plagued Corey Heim before passing Layne Riggs in the final few laps of the race.
Has the racing improved on short tracks with the Next Gen car?@KyleBusch: “No, the racing has definitely not gotten better with the Next Gen at short tracks.” #NASCAR
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Larson seemed quite hopeful after the win. “I felt like the Truck race was probably going to be the toughest to win, I don’t have much experience in them and the runs are typically shorter. I feel better about Xfinity and Cup, but the competition keeps getting tough and tougher as you get on with the weekend, but we’ll see. Off to a good start.” However, things really began falling apart in the last part of the Xfinity race.
Looking at the way things turned out, it was an unfortunate loss for Larson. Leading 132 out of the 201 laps, the #17 of Larson looked set to take the win in dominant fashion. He had a 16-second lead after all, but the story wasn’t done. With seven laps to go, Taylor Gray’s spin brought out a late caution. On the overtime restart, the dream fell apart. Sam Mayer #41 made contact with Larson, hitting his rear bumper and ending any hope he had of getting on par with Rowdy’s record.
“Bummer, again, to have another Homestead race play out that way,” Larson said. “I can’t go when my rear tires are off the ground. So I know it looks like I choked another one away, but I did everything I thought I could [to win]. The 41 just lagged back and slammed me.”
It’s only one aspect of Kyle Larson’s luck failing at Homestead. In 2021, he finished fourth, and won in 2022, but it has gone downhill ever since. In 2023, he went out of the race while racing Ryan Blaney for the lead on lap 214, slamming into the pit road barriers. Last year, another duel with Blaney for the lead saw him spin out with just 20 laps to go. “I feel like every time I go there [to Homestead] you leave disappointed because you feel like you have the best car or truck, and things don’t work out. Whether it’s mistakes on my end or ill-timed cautions combined with a hiccup on pit road, or whatever late in the race, and you end up losing.”
The reality of the fact is that Kyle Busch is the only driver to have achieved the weekend sweep twice in his career, a feat that has established him as one of the greats of the sport. However, there is one thing that Busch envies Larson for.
Busch admits painful part of his winless streak
Kyle Busch’s winless streak has crossed the 60-race mark. For a driver who has made his name in all three levels of NASCAR, it becomes difficult to deal with it after every failed race weekend. However, there’s one part that stings more: not being able to bring his son to victory lane celebrations. That’s what he envies about Larson, especially since young Owen Larson is part of all of Yung Money’s celebrations.
“It’s tough. It was really hard last year, going winless first year ever in Cup Series competition. Not being able to score a victory was really hard. So, I don’t know. I look at it through my son’s eyes sometimes, because he talks about how Owen gets to go celebrate with Tiny Kyle, and when he wins, he gets to go run out on the racetrack and get a ride to Victory Lane and all that.”
He continued, “Brexton, when we were in our highs of 2015, ’16, ’17, ’18 and even some of ’19, we won four or five, six, eight races a year in those years. So, he was too young to really kind of remember it and take part in those, because he wasn’t that perfect age of running out to the track. You know, now that he’s a little bit older, he wants to be a part of that, and I’m not winning as much. So, it is tough. It’s more tough on, probably for me, feeling bad for him, that he doesn’t get to enjoy that as much, and I feel bad for me that I don’t get to enjoy in being able to go to Victory Lane as much as I once did. But life is life.”
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