‘You never know when the last one is’: How Kyle Busch grew from ‘fireball’ to NASCAR legend
Busch was a throwback who grew into his talent and outgrew his attitude.
On Nov. 22, 2015, as the laps wound down at the Ford Ecoboost 400 in Homestead, the entire No. 18 M&M’s Toyota team — owner Joe Gibbs, crew chief Adam Stevens, half a dozen yellow-firesuited crew members — paced and fidgeted, their nerves raw, their hopes battling their dread.
The championship was on the line here, and everyone on the team was an anxious, sweating mess. Everyone, that is, but the driver, Kyle Busch, who was singing a cartoon theme song. As he drew closer and closer to a championship, Busch sang the theme to “VocabuLarry,” the favorite show of his then-six-month-old son Brexton.
It kept him calm, it confused the hell out of his crew chief … and it worked. On that night, Kyle Busch claimed his first Cup championship. On that night, he proved he was as great as he’d always claimed he was.
On that night, his deeds finally caught up to his words. Kyle Busch died on Thursday afternoon , a devastating shock to a sport once accustomed to them. He was a throwback driver, a charismatic pain in the ass who’d beat you on the track and then insult you off of it.
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