Kyle Busch uses scissors, cuts wrist brace during caution laps at Richmond

NASCAR driver Kyle Busch is having to contend with some extra difficulties in the Cook Out 400 as a result of a sprained wrist.

Busch sprained his wrist in a crash at Indianapolis just before the break for the Olympics, and he’s having to wear a brace on the wrist this week at Richmond as a result. But his brace was too tight through the first two stages of the race.

So as drivers made their way to pit road after the end of the second stage, Busch had a request for his crew: scissors.

USA showed footage from inside Kyle Busch’s car of him receiving the scissors as his crew worked on his car to get him back on the road. Busch wasn’t able to completely cut through his wrapping on his hand during the pit stop, so he continued to work on it as he pulled out from pit road.

Rolling down the track, he was able to finally get a quality cut through, loosening the brace. Check it out below.

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Busch broke down what happened with his wrist injury to FOX Sports’ Bob Pockrass.

“These great Next Gen race cars snap the wheel and snap your wrist,” Busch said when asked how it happened, via Pockrass.

Then he explained how the two-week break helped him.

“Without two weeks off I would not have been able to race, I’m pretty good now.”

Busch needs a win at this point in the season, trailing in the playoff points race and well behind the cut line. He also has some history to defend. Busch has gone 19 straight years with a win, and that streak is on the line.

He’s now gone 43 races without a win, too.

As the third stage started, Busch found himself running P21, down a lap.