Richard Childress shares thoughts on post-race altercations in wake of Kyle Busch fight at North Wilkesboro

Over the years, Richard Childress has never shied away from confrontation, and neither have his drivers. On or off the track in NASCAR. It is something that is part of the identity of Richard Childress Racing.

Aggression, never back down attitude, and always settle things. Either with the car on the track or with your fists off of it. Perhaps no driver embodied this better at RCR than Kevin Harvick.

Recently Richard Childress sat down with Harvick on his Happy Hour podcast. The two talked about the good old days.

“I lived off that [confrontation]. That’s why I loved it. With [Dale] Earnhardt, I never will forget,” Childress recalled. “When Jeremy Mayfield pushed him out of the way up at Pocono and he’s screaming on the radio, we was going to win the race, knocked him out of the tunnel, ‘Richard, Richard, don’t you go over there, don’t you go over there.’ But I mean I love that kind of, it just made it more fun back then. Today if you look at somebody wrong you’ll get fined almost.”

Richard Childress loves a good post-race scuffle (and so does @KevinHarvick). pic.twitter.com/jle10XHcDf

— HarvickHappyHour (@HarvickHappyPod) October 5, 2024

Kevin Harvick was never afraid of a post-race fight or conversation. He has jumped over cars, shoved other drivers into each other, and screamed in plenty of faces over the years. He has dished it and taken it and been that guy you don’t want to mess with on the track because you know you would get it back off the track.

Earlier this season, Richard Childress’ driver Kyle Busch got popped. Busch wasn’t afraid to jump into the scuffle, but things went south quickly for the veteran driver. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. got a pretty good lick on him before people started to all over one another.

So, I’m sure Childress didn’t love seeing that.

Richard Childress Racing starting to figure it out

Despite one of the worst seasons RCR has had in quite some time, things are not all bad at the Childress organization. Lately, both teams, the No. 3 of Austin Dillon and No. 8 of Kyle Busch, have shown improvement.

At the very least, Richard Childress Racing has their cars qualifying better. This Next Gen car is so big on track position, that can be the difference between a decent top-15 day or a bad top-25 day, depending on the track.

Busch is searching for his first win of the season. He has at least one win in each of his previous 19 seasons in the Cup Series. That win streak is a record in NASCAR. Right now, there are only five more races for that streak to be continued or broken.

Richard Childress might like those off-the-track moments, but his team hasn’t had too many on the track this season to speak of. Will we see Busch get his win before the year is over?