Kyle Busch overshoots pit stall during green flag stop at Nashville: 'This is complete garbage'

This is not the start to the day that Kyle Busch needed. On the first green flag stop of the afternoon, Busch overshot his stall. The two-time NASCAR champion continues to flounder in the No. 8 car this season.

How has it gotten to this point? Kyle Busch has fallen off and in a big way in 2024. This early pit stop puts him in an even worse position where he is a lap down and seemingly has nowhere to go.

Busch was heard over the radio shortly after saying, “This is complete garbage.” That was apparently in reference to the way his car was handling on the track.

"This is complete garbage."

Kyle Busch

— Jordan Bianchi (@Jordan_Bianchi) June 30, 2024

Kyle Busch started this race P27. It was going to take some clever strategy and a really strong green flag run in order to get up through the field. Those things never came together for the No. 8 team. Then it was made worse by the pit stop.

The car doesn’t have speed, it doesn’t handle well, what is the answer for Busch here? Andy Petree retired as competition director and in the first race since then, we are seeing the same old problems as before.

Is there any way that this team can get it together in time for the playoffs? Is a rally just a few weekends away? While we haven’t seen signs of life from this team in two months, each new incident feels like a new rock bottom. Somehow endlessly digging.

Kyle Busch wants to ‘stop the bleeding’

Earlier in the race weekend, Kyle Busch was asked about his recent struggles. P35 in three of the last four races is not an ideal situation to be in. Busch knows the situation is dire, he just can’t do much but try to race his ass off.

“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.”

This feels like the wound has been poked, prodded, and opened up even more.