Samantha Busch, the wife of NASCAR driver Kyle Busch, was not happy with what Ross Chastain did to her husband at Sonoma. Chastain hit Kyle Busch during the final lap of the race on Sunday, leading him to spin out and miss out on a top-five finish. Samantha Busch went to social media to call out Chastain who finished fifth.
“‘Locked up my tires’ aka over drove the corner,” she wrote while adding a gif with the words “Schmuck.” Samantha shared the video of the crash, and it shows Chastain running into Kyle during the final lap. It’s another tough break for Kyle who is still looking for his win Cup Series race win of the year.
“Kyle Busch, I look at Kyle Busch, he came out and had a chance to win, he ran well at the Daytona 500 this year. They came out like gangbusters last year,” NASCAR legend and Fox Sports analyst Kevin Harvick said last week.
“Right out of the box, all the way through this race last year. Then, it kind of tapered off. I feel like the performance kind of just leveled off. We’ve seen some sporadic peaks of performance, as they’ve gone from last year at St. Louis to this year at St. Louis, but never that beginning of the year, newly-wed phase that they went in at RCR when he first went to RCR.
“So, to me, that’s a situation to where everybody was on full-alert, ‘Okay, we’ve got to make this work,’ last year, when we start this relationship off new, and they’ve got to figure out how to get back to that level of participation, and all the things that they were doing in the first six months of that relationship with Kyle Busch and RCR.”
Samantha Busch and Kyle Busch have been married for nearly 14 years
Kyle and Samantha Busch have been married since Dec. 31. 2010. The couple has two children, son Brexton, 9, and daughter Lennix, 2. In 2020, Samantha spoke to PopCulture.com about not being able to attend races live due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Being a wife and a partner, you want to be there for them just in case,” she said at the time. “I have to distract myself during the race, so I don’t get nervous and Talladega — this weekend’s race — will obviously be quite difficult. So it’s been really different. I miss being at the track.” Busch went on to say how Brexton misses being at the track every weekend as well. “It was our thing every weekend,” she added. “We had our favorite places to go to; we would hang out with the other drivers’ families. It’s been really different, but we obviously support NASCAR and all the safety measures that they’re taking to keep everyone safe right now.”
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