Kyle Busch calls Corey LaJoie a 'liar,' threatens 'payback is coming'

Kyle Busch still isn’t happy with Corey LaJoie after the Spire Motorsports driver wrecked him during this past Sunday’s race at Pocono.

Appearing on “The Pat McAfee Show” Friday, Busch called LaJoie a “liar” for repeatedly changing his explanation and said, “payback is coming.”

“He texted me and then he called me,” Busch said. “I didn’t even reach back out because he changed his story four times, so I’m like, ‘you’re just a liar. You wrecked me.’ I get it. It’s fine. Payback is coming.”

The incident occurred off the Lap 120 restart when Busch blocked LaJoie on the bottom heading into Turn 1. LaJoie fell below the apron and them came back up the racetrack and dumped Busch. LaJoie said earlier this week it wasn’t his intention to clip Busch, but obviously, that’s what happened. Five other cars were involved in the wreck, which Busch broke down from his perspective.

“We were on a restart, we’re all kind of fanning out at Pocono down the front straightaway. … So, I’m over to the right, I just shoot off the screen and that’s Corey to my inside,” Busch said. “And I was blocking him, but we’re already — I’m five-wide and you’ll see down here at the bottom right of the screen, the yellow line starts coming up and Corey’s like, ‘well I gotta back on the racetrack.’ Instead of just blending in behind me and making sure he doesn’t crash the whole field, he just clips me. That’s just like stupid. What are we doing. We’re going 190 miles an hour into that corner and we’re going to wreck each other?”

Kyle Busch frustrated with how 2024 season has gone

Busch has had a disastrous season up to this point and especially lately, where he’s posted five DNFs in the last seven races. The two-time Cup Series champion said he has no faith in the field’s ability to race clean anymore.

“I don’t have faith in any of them,” Busch said. “… I mean, I’ve been wrecked five out of the last seven races by somebody, so I don’t have faith. Maybe I’m just slow and I’m in the way and they know I’m slow, so I’m an easy guy to pass, so they just wanna knock me out.”

Going into this Sunday’s Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval, Busch is facing another must-win scenario now 102 points back of Ross Chastain for the 16th and final spot in the playoffs. Busch is riding a career-long 42-race winless streak, but he’ll need to win one of the five remaining regular season races to avoid missing the postseason for the first time since 2012.