Kyle Busch lacking confidence at Homestead-Miami despite wild 2025 NASCAR streak

William Byron, Christopher Bell and Josh Berry. All five of the NASCAR Cup Series races this season have been won by drivers whose last name starts with a B; will Kyle Busch make it six in Sunday’s race at Homestead-Miami?

Straight from the two-time Cup champion himself, the answer would appear to be no. Busch spoke with the media on Saturday and didn’t seem confident about his chances of getting to Victory Lane at Homestead.

#NASCAR … The first five Cup points races have been won by a driver whose last name starts with B. Is Kyle Busch next to win today at Homestead? pic.twitter.com/Am4thXd5bg

— Dustin Long (@dustinlong) March 23, 2025

“Nope, not this weekend,” Busch told Dustin Long of NBC Sports. “We struggled here a little bit. It’s just not quite my place I guess with RCR. Car was better today than I recall it being here in years past, but we didn’t get a chance to show that really in qualifying. Race stuff was kind of hard; we unloaded with just being too tight and came in to make a change and then obviously went too loose. So, overstepped that.”

As Busch mentioned, Homestead hasn’t been his track in his time with RCR. He finished 18th in 2023 and 31st last season. While his car may be better this time out, it didn’t show in qualifying. Busch will start 22nd in the Straight Talk Wireless 400.

That career-long 62-race winless streak could become 63 on Sunday, though Busch has shown signs of life to start the season. Busch has already tallied three top 10s, notably coming up just short at COTA.

Kyle Busch opines on career-long losing streak

The losing streak has admittedly been tough for Busch as a father. He explained during a recent interview with Kevin Harvick.

“It’s tough. It was really hard last year, going winless [for the] first year ever in Cup Series competition. Not being able to score a victory was really hard,” Busch said. “So, I don’t know. I look at it through my son’s [Brexton] eyes sometimes, because he talks about how Owen [Kyle Larson’s son] gets to go celebrate with Tiny Kyle [Larson] and when he wins, he gets to go run out on the racetrack and get a ride to Victory Lane and all that.

“Brexton, when we were in our highs of 2015, ’16, ’17, ’18 and even some of ’19, we won four or five, six, eight races a year in those years. So, he was too young to really kind of remember it and take part in those, because he wasn’t that perfect age of running out to the track. You know, now that he’s a little bit older, he wants to be a part of that, and I’m not winning as much. So, it is tough. It’s more tough on, probably for me, feeling bad for him, that he doesn’t get to enjoy that as much, and I feel bad for me that I don’t get to enjoy in being able to go to Victory Lane as much as I once did. But life is life.

“You just keep fighting it out and keep working with the team and everybody that we’ve got on this year at RCR and stuff. Trying to make it better, to get us back to Victory Lane.”