Kyle Busch hopes RCR improves after retirement of competition director Andy Petree

Richard Childres Racing made a big change last week, which Kyle Busch hopes will help them improve after a less-than-stellar season. Competition director Andy Petree has stepped down from his role in the NASCAR organization.

With Andy Petree retiring effective immediately, it does give Richard Childress Racing a new opportunity. Loyalty is important in motorsports. Keeping the right personnel is just as important as having the best driver.

One way or another, Kyle Busch and RCR are in a new era. Petree is out and now the organization has to focus on results. At this point, Busch is about in a must-win situation if he wants to make the playoffs.

It seems like Busch is happy with the change, even if he likes Petree.

“I mean, change sometimes lends itself to an open opportunity, hopefully for the better,” Busch said, via Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports. “So, you know, I respect the hell out of Andy, and what he’s done and what he’s done in this sport and the legacy that he holds. We had a lot of fun together and some good laughs and some good relationships and um, hopefully, we can better our program without him there and carry on in the future.”

Kyle Busch and Richard Childress Racing have to get it going. At this point, there are few options to make it into the playoffs outside of a win. Or a complete turn around over the course of the final eight races of the regular season.

Kyle Busch wants to ‘stop the bleeding’

For Kyle Busch, it really takes one good day to get a win and get to the playoffs. The only problem is I haven’t seen Richard Childress Racing give him equipment that looks like it can win.

Busch knows that his team has to improve.

“Sure you can but the last three weeks have definitely, definitely not helped, that’s been a huge setback,” Busch said, via Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports. “We just have to stop the bleeding I think I’ve been saying that for the last six months so it hasn’t stopped. In the last week, it’s been gushing pretty hard.”

Then Kyle Busch talked about the last few weeks. It has been one thing after another.

“Yeah true. We were running better than we probably should have been at Gateway we got crashed. We were running better than we should have been at Iowa and we had a part failure. Then we’re not running good at all last week at Loudon and then we go out in the wet and I’m just trying to catch back up to the tail of the field and we crashed. But take all that back I’ve been getting run into every week as well, too. So, that’s probably some of it.”