By Ron Kantowski Special to the Review-Journal
June 3, 2026 - 1:00 pm
Las Vegas Motor Speedway wasn’t ever benignant to Kyle Busch. But that didn’t preclude the Las Vegas autochthonal from giving his hometown fans immoderate moments to cherish portion racing astatine home.
Young weapon unholstered (2001)
A fewer months earlier helium would instrumentality NASCAR by storm, a fuzzy-cheeked Kyle Busch showed the play warriors astatine the LVMS Bullring the accelerated mode astir the way by winning 10 of 12 races successful the featured sportsman division.
Driving a car owned by Jerry Spilsbury, the precocious youngster finished 2nd (with an asterisk) successful the play championship. He was forced to miss the archetypal 4 races that occurred earlier his 16th day — the minimum property to vie backmost successful those days.
It would beryllium the past clip anybody asked to spot Kyle Busch’s driver’s license. He made his NASCAR Truck Series debut aboriginal that year, finishing an awesome ninth astatine Indianapolis Raceway Park.
Runner-up to retrieve (2007)
There’s an look successful car racing that cipher remembers the feline who finished second.
That wasn’t the lawsuit during the Sam’s Town 300 Busch Series contention successful 2007. Jeff Burton bumped past Busch arsenic they approached the checkered flag, securing a thrilling triumph arsenic the Las Vegan slid crossed the decorativeness enactment backwards.
After climbing retired of his battered car, Busch walked to Burton’s and gave the winning operator a congratulatory fist bump.
There’s nary spot similar location (2009)
After qualifying connected the rod lone to beryllium sent to the rear of the tract aft blowing an motor successful practice, Busch drove from 39th spot astatine the commencement to archetypal astatine the decorativeness en way to a fashionable victory.
While Busch’s grounds astatine LVMS — 12 top- 5 and 16 top-10 finishes and 322 laps led – is thing astatine which to sneeze, the triumph would beryllium his lone 1 connected his hometown way successful 30 Cup Series starts. It besides gave him impermanent household bragging rights implicit his older brother.
Kurt Busch’s lone triumph successful 25 LVMS starts would not travel for different 11 years.
Blood connected the way (2017)
After tangling with Joey Logano successful a late-race incidental astatine the Kobalt 400, a furious Busch made a beeline to Logano’s car and threw a punch astatine his longtime nemesis.
A pit roadworthy brawl featuring some crews ensued. When cooler heads yet prevailed, Busch emerged from the dogpile with a gash connected his forehead that looked worse than it truly was.
As they accidental successful the NASCAR boardroom whenever TV ratings are discussed, “Boys, person astatine it.”
Rowdy goes Beast Mode (2019)
A mates of hours earlier the South Point 400, Busch and Super Bowl-winning moving backmost Marshawn Lynch traded helmets.
This turned retired to beryllium a atrocious omen for reporters who aboriginal would ask an agitated Busch astir his atrocious race successful which helium deed the partition aboriginal and different car precocious en way to finishing successful 19th place.
Q: What happened with the No. 53 precocious (an erroneous notation to the car driven by Garrett Smithley, with whom Busch collided)?
A: “52, get it right. Don’t know.”
How’d that interaction your car?
“Killed it.”
Were you blessed that you were capable to travel backmost from the aboriginal damage?
“Nope.”
What happened astatine the opening of the race?
“I’m conscionable present truthful I don’t get fined.”
What astir the heat?
“Felt great.”
Any thoughts astir going to a spot wherever you won past time, astatine Richmond?
“Nope. Can’t walk there.”
Feel OK astir your chances overall?
“Don’t care.”
Did it assistance that you had (playoff) bonus points coming successful here?
“I’m conscionable present truthful I don’t get fined.”
(Did) you consciousness that if you were capable to get a apical 10 …
At that point, the indignant operator sought retired a NASCAR official.
“I’m answering the dumbest (expletive) questions implicit and implicit again — americium I bully (to go)?”
Kyle Busch didn’t hold astir for the answer.
Ron Kantowski For the Review-Journal
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