Kyle Busch reflects on fight with Ricky Stenhouse Jr., addresses penalties, who was in the wrong

Kyle Busch is ready to move on from the fight he had with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. after the NASCAR All-Star Race in North Wilkesboro. While speaking with Bob Pockrass of Fox Sports, Bush talked about whether the penalties Stenhouse and his team received were fair or not.

“It doesn’t matter whether I agree or not — NASCAR makes the penalties,” Busch said. Busch was then asked if he felt any differently after seeing the replay of the incident on the track between him and Stenhouse which led to the fight.

“Nope. I gave extra room and when I was dragging the fence, he smashed my door,” Busch replied. Busch believes that Stenhouse bumped into him during the second lap of the race. The two-time Cup Series Champion retaliated and bumped into Stenhouse, which led to Stenhouse’s car running into the wall. Stenhouse’s night was done, but he waited for Busch after the race to confront him. Stenhouse punched Busch, and a fight ensued with both teams.

Kyle Busch ‘tried to hold my own’ during the fight

Busch shared his thoughts on the fight after learning about the fines and penalties for Stenhouse and JTG Daugherty Racing.

“You know to me, it’s just Lap 1. The water is not even hot. The tires aren’t even hot,” Busch told Charlie Marlow of The Kenny Wallace Show. “You’re kind of slipping a little bit but yeah, I ran wide into Turn 1. Gave an opening to the middle. He took it. I gave room on the exit to make sure we didn’t touch, so I touched the fence a little bit. I was touching the fence, and he still ran into me and brushed off on my left front corner.

“So, it was inevitable that I was going to get put in the fence anyways. I wasn’t too pleased about that and did come back and retaliate. It showed my displeasure of that. As one guy once said, I meant to rattle his cage and spin them out didn’t mean for him to overcorrect and stuff in the fence but that’s sort of what happens sometimes.

“And then afterwards obviously, trying to have some casual words. I had no idea his comments of hold my watch or you know, hey, if you want to see something afterwards, hang out until afterwards. Nobody told me. So, I felt like I went into an ambush blind with him and his team and having an idea that they were all kind of set up in different areas. But tried to hold my own the best I could fighting off five different guys and came out of there with no black eyes.”

On3’s Nick Geddes contributed to this story.