Kyle Busch airs out frustration after oil leak on pit road sends him to rear of grid at Pocono
The bad news just keeps piling on for Kyle Busch and the No. 8 Richard Childress Racing team. You can’t make this stuff up. While on the grid awaiting today’s NASCAR race, Busch’s car began to leak oil.
Kyle Busch started practice on Saturday with a steering issue. Then his team fixed that. However, his team couldn’t put more speed into the car. Now there are further issues.
Call it bad luck, poor preparation, gremlins, whatever – it isn’t good. Busch’s car was seen leaking oil on the grid and had to be taken back to the garage for repairs. The entire underbody had to come off of the car.
Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports posted a photo of the crew working on the car on X.com, formerly known as Twitter.
Kyle Busch voiced his frustrations to Parker Kligerman on the NBC Sports broadcast.
“Yeah, no question, I mean, definitely,” Busch said about his struggles this season. “I don’t think you and hem and haw or dance around that answer of that question because it is frustrating, but um, there’s a process here, and you know, there’s a big circle of success that’s happened in this sport. There’s guys at the top. Then guys at the bottom. They circle back around to the top. I was at the top for a long, long time, and felt really, really good to be there.
“So, now just in a different realm and trying to figure out how to, how to climb that. It’s way easier to fall than it is to crawl back up. So, we’ll just keep figuring out what those ways are.”
The bad news continues for Kyle Busch and his team.
Richard Childress chimes in on Kyle Busch oil leak
When there are this many issues in a season, someone has to talk to the man in charge. Richard Childress was asked about the struggles, the oil leak specifically, and was honest about the dire situation.
“It didn’t leak yesterday, it didn’t leak this morning,” Childress said. “Pulled it on the line and one of the guys seen a little leak under it. Here’s the little crack. It’s kind of spongy all the way through here, don’t know if it’s the faulty line or what. But you can see right there where the crack come through. We’re in the middle of it right now but these cars, you have to drop everything from out under them. All the under panel and everything. It’s gonna be close but we’re gonna make it.
“… We gotta start in the rear so we gotta change a lot of strategy that we worked out this morning. So, now you just go from there and I’m sure with all our guys we’ll figure it out. Had a lot of other teams give us a hand, some of the Hendrick guys and Trackhouse and we all jumped in there and got it on the line.”
Those Hendrick and Trackhouse crew members were very kind to help out a team in need. The garage is a tight-knit family, and this is a great example of that.