Austin Dillon's heartfelt letter remembering RCR teammate Kyle Busch

Motorsport photo In all of the tributes and reactions pouring in from across the motorsports world and beyond, this one stands out. On Friday, Austin Dillon, the driver of the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet and grandson of the team's namesake, posted the following letter to his social media.

RCR runs two full-time Cup cars, and for the past four seasons, those cars were driven by Dillon and his teammate, Kyle Busch. Dillon, a winner of both the Coca-Cola 600 and Daytona 500, grew up in the shadow of a giant, and for the first ten years of his life, he got watch Dale Earnhardt carry RCR to glory. But then tragedy struck, and everything changed.

25 years later, history is sadly repeating itself for the historic NASCAR team, and this time, Dillon shared the track with the fallen champion whose loose has sent shockwaves through NASCAR. In the following letter, Dillon memorializes Busch, explaining what he meant to RCR as the team was trying to build its way back to the top of the NASCAR scoring pylon, detailing how a man his grandfather once greately disliked ultimately became part of the RCR family. Austin Dillon's heartfelt letter to teammate Kyle Busch "Dear KB, "I’ll start at the beginning.

I grew up watching a larger-than-life figure drive race cars like he was born to do it. Dale was a superhero in my house and when he passed his legend only grew. The bar was set high from a young age.