Kyle Busch takes partial blame for leaving track after wreck
Quote selected text Published April 19th, 2007 in NASCAR News
A contrite Kyle Busch took at least partial blame for the miscommunication that led to his leaving the track last week, while his Hendrick Motorsports team repaired his No. 5 Chevrolet and was searching for a driver.
“I assumed the car was finished, that there was too extensive damage to fix it. I took that as an indication we were done for the day, went to the hauler and changed my clothes,” Busch said Thursday.
“I never had a team member or anybody say they we were trying to get back out. We just never talked with each other after the incident.”
Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr. were caught up in an accident at Texas Motor Speedway last weekend that started when Tony Stewart spun exiting Turn 4. When Busch’s team realized they could still pick up a position on the track, they went looking for a replacement driver and got Earnhardt Jr. to drive the car.
“I heard about it on the radio on my way to the airport to get on the team plane,” he said. “I don’t think I let my teammates down and they tell me I didn’t let them down.
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I think that Kyle could’ve asked someone instead of assuming and then not sticking around. He must not have good communication skills then, that’s for sure!
i agree with the first part… i don’t understand how someone could get out of the car after crashing, and not talk to ANY of the crew. they must hate him… if i were part of the crew, i’d think he was a spoiled, arrogant brat for not even thanking the crew for the work they’d done over the weekend. had he thanked the crew, they would have said “whoa, wait, we’re not done yet”.
it’s not down to communication skills, it’s down to arrogance taking over rationality and friendliness.
Shows how much he knows about fixing cars.
FIRE EM!!!
That’s right Kyle is so stupid for leaving
without even talkin to his team he is a total
IDIOT FIRE HIM HENDRICK MOTORSPORTS!!!!!
well………..kyle busch is a bitch. how in the hell do you take “partial” blame for somehting that was 100% your fault. i hope the teams lets him down. i hope the jackman just walks off the job during a pit stop, that would make just about the same sense. kyle busch go to hell…and this time, if you do tell your team they wont give rat’s ass.
Not even a “Thanks Jr. for picking up a spot for me.”? I have been reading all about this and haven’t found where he even says thanks! Hmmmmm….
Kyle busch is a total Moron!! how can you not slow down behind another guy like come on.. it wasnt partially his fault.. he could have went low, there was enough room ro you could slow down like the rest of the field did..
I AGREE with all the above!!!!!!! Couldn’t have said it better myself!
Kind of ironic that the 51% offer (?) came out after Jr ran in Kyles car? I agree Kyle Busch is a weenie at best, but I think maybe Jr took an oppertunity to turn the screws to DEI.
If kyle got out of the car pissed off i doubt he would have wanted to talk to anyone.
thats part of his maturity… he might not be fully mature but he’s getting there. and when he’s pissed he doesn’t talk to anyone because he doesn’t want to say the wrong thing.
so props to kyle.
re: katrina,
I’m sorry, but he’s in a professional series, and at the one of the top forms of motorsport in the world. Therefore it is obvious that he should act like a professional. Sure, he crashed and was likely pissed off, but he shouldn’t be a total baby and say nothing to avoid offending his crew. He should realize that it was a bad situation and take it like a man. Further, he should be a *gentleman* about it and thank his crew for their efforts, and say something like “sorry that it had to end up this way after all of our hard work”.
The truth is that he is immature, has an ego that’s way to big for his own good and that if he is in a professional series he should act like a professional, do his job, and be more involved with his co-workers (because really, he is no more important than anyone else on the team… he just happens to get most of the credit for the job).