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Kyle Bush had a Joe Gibbs Racing member slip his Toyota through the window and tried to figure out how to fix a fried, welded 4th gear transmission.
It’s rare for a NASCAR driver to have a passenger in the car, so Busch had a brief chat at the pit stop with car boss Nate Bellows.
“Wait, don’t you want to go with me?” said Bush.
Toyota has never been repaired. It was 115 miles to the end of the Pocono, Busch had a fried clutch, only one gear and had to rush his boss out of the car. But he had a full gas tank, so he crashed into it.
Bush came into the clutch—even when he raced without one—and broke Hendrick Motorsports’ winning streak and denied the organization a shot in NASCAR history as he raced for his second win of the season Sunday.
“Put as much gas in it as you can, fill this thing up full, and we’ll run it the rest of the day,” Bush said.
Bush spilled his fuel in his broken Toyota and beat late leader William Byron and his GGR teammate Denny Hamlin when they saw their shot at the checkered flag disappear over the last few laps when they ran out of fuel.
“Sometimes the fastest car doesn’t always win these races,” Bosch said.
Sometimes a car that might use propulsion into victory lane wins them over.
“We’re going straight ahead and I’m like, ‘Damn, I wish I could catch her,'” Bush said. “I didn’t have one. I could have probably done a better job saving fuel but I was just lifting the gas instead of being able to catch it.”
Busch was on the verge of ending Hendrik’s winning streak with second place ahead of Alex Bowman in the opener of the doubles matches in Pocono on Saturday. He couldn’t get the help he needed on Saturday with the right push but he got the crucial pit road help on Sunday and then drove the last 46 laps on the 2 1/2 mile oval knowing another pit stop would end his race.
“It took some brute force to hold this thing down, to keep it in place,” Bush said.
Bush raced early without a care and sang a few tapes of “Fly Like An Eagle” over the radio. His 59th cup win would be one of Bosch’s greatest successes. The NASCAR career wins every series leader has 100 in Xfinity and 61 in trucks.
Sorry Steve Miller, Bush said his favorite karaoke song is “The Real Slim Shady,” a fitting pick for an M&M driver.
Kyle Larson, whose blown tire on the last lap cost him a win on Saturday, was second place for Hendrik Motorsports. Hendrik won six consecutive Cup races, capping Bowman’s third win over his last 10 races.
Hendrick had been trying to become the first team since the modern era of NASCAR began in 1972 to win seven races in a row.
Bowman began the streak in May in Dover and was followed by Chase Elliott the following week in Texas. Larson then clinched three straight points from wins in Charlotte, Sonoma, and last week in Nashville — and racked up a $1 million All-Star race win for four, all while Hendrick Motorsports became the most winning organization in NASCAR history.
Brad Keselowski finished third, Kevin Harvick finished fourth and Bubba Wallace came in fifth in his best result of the season for Michael Jordan’s 23IX team.
Hamlin faded to 14.
“We’ve had the fuel mileage in the last two weeks,” Hamlin said. “We can’t see the squares now.”
The checkered flag went to Busch, accidentally, thanks to transmission problems that forced him to drill out of and over his tank.
“We would never have been in this position if we didn’t have the transgender people stuck,” Bush said. “We got everything we could get out of with whatever was going on.”
urban youth
Larson met 40 students at Urban Youth Racing School and announced his plans to race the school’s go-kart race in August in Philadelphia.
The Philly-based program that creates racing opportunities for minorities has developed a deeper relationship with Larson after he was suspended last season for using slander during an iRacing event. Larson or Zooms often contact students and buy school racing simulators.
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“Just having that relationship where they can pick up the phone and call me if they have questions about iRacing or something cool,” Larson said. “It’s a closer friendship, a relationship with them. I think they all look up to me and I think it’s great to be there for them whenever they need me.”
NASCAR donated $70,000 on Sunday to the school.
Anthony Martin, founder of UYRS, said Larson and other NASCAR drivers will compete on August 7 in the Go-Kart Grand Prix near the school site in Philly.
“Many of our students have never been in a race before, so to come see it up close, be a part of it, smell the gas, and hear the sounds are very important,” Martin said. “Actually, being here is a lot different than watching it on TV.”
next one
NASCAR is heading to Road America in rural Wisconsin, one of the new road track events on the 2021 schedule.
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