Kyle Busch calls out Ross Chastain for 'dumb' move at Sonoma

Last week on the last lap at Sonoma Raceway, Ross Chastain moved Kyle Busch and cost the No. 8 car a much-needed top-10 finish. Rowdy was not happy with his fellow NASCAR driver after the fact.

When Samantha Busch goes online and calls you out, you probably did something egregious. Well, Chastain got called out last week for sure. While Chastain says he just overdrove the corner, Busch had other thoughts.

This week at Iowa Speedway, Kyle Busch was asked about the incident. Busch was running out of gas. Chastain would have made the pass regardless. But instead, Busch had to retire his car and finished P12.

“I mean it stumbled getting into [Turn] Four but I’m not sure that made any difference. I was far enough off-line, I was a groove and a half out of the way and he just comes in barreling on in there and blows through my door,” Busch told the media, via Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports. “Don’t know the significance, obviously, it hurt me being able to just have enough fuel to get back regoing and try to fend off the rest of the cars that were coming behind me.”

Kyle Busch knows wrecks happen in NASCAR. He just hates that it happened how it did last week.

“I don’t know it just is what it is. Forty guys fighting for some of the same real estate each week on the race track and you’re bound to run into one another. It’s just dumb when it happens like last week where I gave a whole groove to a faster car that was going to pass me anyways and I got wiped out.”

Kyle Busch said his car did stumble on the Sonoma final lap but felt he gave Ross Chastain enough room to get by him. What he said about that lap. In the final soundbite, he was talking about the way people are racing each other, how he races and circled back back to Chastain. pic.twitter.com/PPWWDr6IsW

— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) June 15, 2024

Iowa Speedway is a chance to reset. Busch could really use one right now. 2024 has not been his season.

Kyle Busch needs to run well at Iowa

The last time it looked like Kyle Busch had a hold of this season was at Dover and Kansas. Pole at Dover, P4 overall and then P8 at Kansas the week after. Since then, Busch has had finishes of P27, P15, P35, and P12. Not to mention his day at North Wilkesboro for the All-Star Race.

Iowa Speedway is a chance to bounce back. Get to the great racing that you have always put on throughout your entire career. There is no reason for Busch to not be able to run in the top-10 most weeks, short of accidents and mechanical failures.

Between pit crew problems to start, mechanical issues, driver mistakes, and plain old bad luck, things have been rough for Busch. That is putting it mildly. In his career, the two-time champion has never struggled quite like he is right now.

Kyle Busch hopes to turn the ship around this Sunday. Can he do it and can he pick up the pace in time for a postseason run?