HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Kurt Busch gave his State of NASCAR address, a short and profanity-laced rant after series officials penalized him during the penultimate race of the season.
“Wonder why (expletive) sponsors are leaving this (expletive) sport,” Busch quipped over his in-car radio.
A late-race crash in Phoenix last weekend doomed Busch’s chances of making the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Championship 4. His younger brother Kyle (2015 champion), defending champion Martin Truex Jr., Kevin Harvick (2014 champion) and Joey Logano will compete for the title on Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
“Yeah, that’s not productive for anybody, and I think that if Kurt could go back and do that over again, he probably wouldn’t have said those things,” Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR’s 15-time most popular driver turned NBC broadcaster, said on a conference call with reporters this week. “When you feel like you’ve been wronged by NASCAR, you come over the radio and say something that you try to take a dig at them, but you forget that everyone else is listening.”
Kurt Busch said what he did out of anger and apologized after the race, but his venting had some kernels of truth, even if the series' ever-changing rules are only one factor.
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