Kyle Busch Avoids ‘Trouble’ With NASCAR Over ‘Ungodly’ Package

Kyle Busch isn’t having the best start to his 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season. Having made the switch to Richard Childress Racing camp, Bush has been struggling to deliver strong performances. While there have been issues within RCR, the veteran driver believes the new short-track package hasn’t helped his cause.

Not to forget, the driver had previously weighed in on the demand for more horsepower in the new cars. Suggesting that the cars need to be faster to go around corners and cause the tires to burn more. Going into the race at Martinsville Speedway, Busch is refraining from making any more suggestions, despite being at odds with the new short-track package.

Kyle Busch believes his team is yet to crack the code for the new short-track package

The Next Gen car hasn’t been good for Kyle Busch when running at short tracks. After a somewhat decent start to his 2024 campaign, he quickly dropped down in the standings with mediocre results at Phoenix, Bristol, and Richmond. During these three short track races, he failed to finish inside the top 15, and going into Martinsville, he is expecting pretty much the same.

Explaining his troubles with the short track package, he said, “For me anyway, maybe it’s just because we don’t have it quite figured out like others do. But I cannot follow anybody in front of me whatsoever. It doesn’t matter if I’m in the bottom lane, the middle lane, or the top lane. If there’s a car in front of me, I am terrible, really bad.”

In the Next Gen era, Busch has only managed one top-10 finish in his four starts at Martinsville Speedway. This highlights his troubles in coping with the new race car and the package. In light of his shortcomings at the iconic short track venue, the driver and his team have been trying to crack the code, but that has not yielded any results so far.

Busch explained, “We have had like two hits, I think, so it would be nice to get more on the hit side and where we have good cars and we’re able to go out there and contend and compete. A lot of it is just reliance on simulation and what we’re being told in that. Making decisions based off of that, what makes you faster or better in the sim. That is not transferring to the racetrack”.

Kyle Busch had a good practice and qualifying round yesterday at the 0.526-mile track and will be starting on P11 for today’s main event