Kyle Busch reveals retirement plans, wants to run Truck Series full-time before handing things over to son Brexton

Kyle Busch has already mapped out his NASCAR Cup Series exit, which in a perfect world, will come in seven years.

Busch, the two-time Cup Series champion (2015, ’19), revealed his full retirement plans in a prerecorded episode of SiriusXM’s “Cars and Cultures,” which will air Thursday night. The 38-year-old said he plans to step away from the Cup Series when his son Brexton, who is 8 years old, turns 15, in which he’ll then run the Craftsman Truck Series full-time in search of becoming the first driver to win a championship in all three series of NASCAR.

“I would say in a perfect world – I’ve kind of dreamt this up a little bit – in a perfect world, I would retire from Cup racing when Brexton is 15 years old,” Busch said, via Forbes.

He added: “I would go run a year of truck. I’d go run a full truck series season to see if I can win a Truck Series championship because that, I would be the first one to have ever won an all three series of NASCAR, you know, the championship, which I’ve won the most races across all three of those divisions, then anybody combined.

“So I would do that and then when Brexton turns 16, him and I can split that truck where he can run the shorter track races and I can run the bigger track races. So for two years, because you have to be 18 to run the big tracks… we would split it. And then when he’s 18, he takes it over, and then when he runs it and takes it over and hopefully wins a championship, then he moves on and then I’m out. Like, I’m done. You know, that would, that would be it for me. So that would probably put me around, I guess 49, 50-years-old.”

“That’s the dream. So I’ve got to make the dream a reality. So we’re working on that.”

Kyle Busch enjoying fine 1st season with Richard Childress Racing

Busch, meanwhile, is enjoying a fine first season with Richard Childress Racing (RCR). He fifth in the points standings and has three wins to his name through 20 races.

Busch, however, struggled in Monday’s Crayon 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. He wrecked three times over the weekend — in practice, qualifying and during the race. Busch hit the wall on the final lap of Stage 1 after getting loose going into the corner. His No. 8 RCR team was unable to get the car back on the track, resulting in Busch finishing a season-low 36th.

“No,” Busch said after the race, via Dustin Long of NBC Sports. “I’ve been lacking right-rear grip the whole time we’ve been here. Just couldn’t get the right-rear feel in the race track. You’re just going along trying to keep it under you as much as you can. It was getting late in the run, and I was trying a different line and it was just too high. I didn’t like to be that high on entry. I couldn’t give it wheel and have the right-rear stick with the lateral grip that you need.”