Kyle Busch responds to the state of Richard Childress Racing cars amid disappointing season

Kyle Busch recently opened up about his struggles with the Richard Childress Racing (RCR) cars and his own performance this season. During a candid discussion on The Pat McAfee Show, Busch said his #8 car hasn’t been up to par this year. He vividly remembers how the car performed last year.

Currently in his second season with Richard Childress Racing, Busch is experiencing one of the most difficult seasons of his career. He hasn’t won even once and finishing races has been just as tough. Whether it’s getting tangled up with other drivers, pit crew blunders, not having speed in his car, or his own mistakes, nothing has gone right for the 39-year-old.

It’s been 42 races since Kyle Busch's last NASCAR victory at Gateway at World Wide Technology Raceway. When Pat McAfee recently asked him about his car's performance this season, Kyle Busch didn't sugarcoat his response. He said:

"Our cars have not been that great right now. We're working on it. I mean we've come to a lot of things of what we're kind of learning about and figuring out. Last year, we were good. Like I joined RCR, we won three of the first 12, 15 races or something like that, it was pretty good and then we we haven't won since. So it's been a bit of a dry spell so we're working on it." [7:53]

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Kyle Busch talks about his expectations from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway race

The RCR driver also touched on the potential turmoil he anticipates at the upcoming Indianapolis race. McAfee was curious about what fans and newcomers might expect from the track, especially since NASCAR is returning to Indianapolis after a three-year hiatus.

Kyle Busch opined that restarts are usually chaotic and that the dynamic is why drivers push hard to gain as much ground as possible early on. He explained that once the field spreads out, it becomes difficult to close the gap on the leader, contributing to the chaos during restarts.

"Most of your positions are made within the first lap of a restart. And then after that, we kind of all get singled out and kind of spread out because these cars don't allow you to race very close to each other in dirty air. So you're going 190 mph down the straightaway, you get to 120 mph through the corner at the Brickyard," he said. [9:09]

"And for your car to follow in the wake of the guy in front of you, it wants to blow out from behind it because there's no downforce on it, it's not pushing the car in the track. So it wants to just take off," he added.