NASCAR fans, 'Rowdy Nation' mourn Kyle Busch at RCR headquarters

WELCOME, NC — When Matthew Winters woke up Friday morning, he was thinking about a song that was released in 1995 by country music star Travis Tritt: “Tell Me I Was Dreaming. ” He was hoping that Thursday, the day his favorite race car driver died, was just a nightmare. When reality set in, he pulled on a pair of blue jeans, buttoned up an M&M’s racing shirt and put on a blue hat with the No.

8 on the side of it. The 37-year-old from Wilkesboro, North Carolina, hopped in his car and drove to the tiny town of Welcome, where Richard Childress Racing is based. “Where else would I be?

I need to be around racing family, because we’re a community,” Winters said. “We’re all family, we all need to mourn, we all need to grieve — and what better place to do it? It’s still kind of unreal.

” Two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch died on Thursday , shocking and stunning the motorsports world. The 41-year-old was rushed to a Charlotte hospital on Wednesday after coughing up blood . Just last Friday, Busch won the 69th Truck Series race of his career in Dover.