Kyle Busch and Brexton Busch talk their dirt racing careers now and moving forward
NASCAR driver Kyle Busch is fully engaged in the off-season. He along with his son Brexton have invaded the Tulsa Shootout, a full week of micro racing in Oklahoma.
The father-son duo have been racing micros for years. In this year’s event Brexton is racing Jr Sprints as well as the Restricted A-Class division.
Brexton Busch just turned his first laps in the Restricted A-Class. He finished 5th in his first heat race with the new machine.
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Open wheel dirt racing can lead in several directions such as dirt midgets or even dirt sprint cars. And that appears to be the path the Busch family is heading.
But, where will these two take their dirt racing careers moving forward? If Mom has her way, it wouldn’t be dirt midgets…
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Brexton Busch and Kyle Busch talk dirt racing
“I’ll probably get into micros,” Brexton Busch told Flo Racing.
“Maybe midgets. My mom doesn’t want me to get into midgets though.”
Kyle Busch added, “Mom would not like the midget class. But, we’ll give it a whirl one day and see how that goes. We’ll see what we like doing throughout the micros.”
“You come here and there’s 1700 entries. The big-boy class having 300 or something, is a lot. It’s fun, you get to race against guys from all over the country. Everybody culminates here for Tulsa.”
“He had really good car control in restricted. Looked great, he looked like a professional. Then today, we just couldn’t get to the bottom.”
“The craft and the class, everything that you get of being able to run different things on dirt kinda gives you different feelings and driving styles.”
“Then, mixing in the pavement, we do some Bandolero stuff. He’s old enough for that. Not old enough for the Legends yet so we’ll get into that. We’ll mix it all up and run some of both.”
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“For the fun of it,” Kyle Busch says of why he’s started racing on dirt.
“Just to have me something to do. There’s a lot of back and forth between my cars, his car and setup stuff. The things I learn on my cars, I put on his cars, which didn’t work today.”
“I enjoy being a hands on setup guy. Just trying to figure it all out and make the best of it.”
The Chili Bowl is the biggest dirt midget race of the year. However, the event has a different set of rules which has caused teams to build cars specifically for the event. Kyle Busch says he doesn’t plan to race the Chili Bowl as a result.
“No, I’m too big. I’m 200 lbs. You come here with no weight rule, you have build a bigger car and you can’t keep up with those light-weight kids.”
Kyle Busch recently sold his NASCAR Truck Series team. In the past, he’s noted that he planned to field a truck for his son Brexton in the future but that was before the sale of the team.
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Kyle Busch and Brexton Busch
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