Dale Earnhardt Jr. shares emotional post on rivalry with Kyle Busch

The NASCAR world was rocked on May 21 following the devastating announcement that legendary stock car racer Kyle Busch passed away from a "severe illness. " Busch was hospitalized earlier this week , as his family has asked for privacy during this matter. Reactions from NASCAR legends poured in all over in multiple ways, notably in the form of social media posts.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. took to X, formerly Twitter, and had an emotionally heartfelt post detailing their relationship and how Busch would be missed. "Kyle and I had a really challenging existence for many years.

But we luckily took the time to figure out our differences and that was something he instigated with a conversation in his bus around how we each managed our racing teams," Earnhardt Jr. wrote . "I was super eager for us to get on better terms.

But it was he who made the effort for that to be possible. We did some media together also to laugh through some of the things we put each other through many years ago. " Their relationship didn't start off as best friends.