Kyle Busch on offseason prep, selling his truck teams and

Kyle Busch didn’t have the transition to a new team this offseason that he had a year ago, but this offseason certainly had a different feel than past ones for the two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion.

Busch sold his Kyle Busch Motorsports truck teams, the shop and his race-car manufacturing business to Spire Motorsports. He also saw the energy drink Rowdy Energy, which he co-founded, announce plans earlier this month that it will cease operations.

Busch did have some stress early in the offseason as he had to clear out the shop of his cars and trophies as Spire moved in just a week after the 2023 season ended. He then raced along with son, Brexton, in the Tulsa Shootout for micro sprints in late December.

After a short vacation, he spent last week going from stop to stop during NASCAR production days.

As he talked to FOX Sports between a series of photo shoots, he reflected on an offseason not preparing for another year of KBM on the national series level after 15 years where KBM won 100 truck races (as well as one Xfinity race in the short time it competed in that series).

“I definitely miss the truck series team a little bit,” Busch said. “KBM still exists. We’re just racing at the grassroots level with me and Brex. But I’m obviously missing the people that were there and going into the shop and seeing them every single day or every week or whatever it might have been.

“That’s the part that I feel like I was going to miss from the start and kind of still do a little bit.”

While he doesn’t have a truck team, Busch is still preparing race cars for his own non-NASCAR events and his son.

“It’s also a little bit less stressful of just having two or three guys that I got to deal with now that I’m able to go into our [family] shop and just kind of work on cars myself and do some things,” Busch said. “I’ve been the decal guy. I’ve been the fabricator. I’ve been the welder. I’ve been the engineer.

“We’re working on everything right now.”