NASCAR: Ryan Blaney rips Kyle Busch for his recent remarks

NASCAR Cup Series driver Ryan Blaney ripped fellow driver Kyle Busch for his recent negative remarks about younger drivers doing marketing campaigns for the sport.

Kyle Busch, 32, made remarks about how he feels the fact that NASCAR uses the young, up-and-coming drivers in marketing campaigns as opposed to the veterans is unfair. Fellow Cup Series driver Ryan Blaney, 24, recently responded to Busch’s remarks.

Stewart-Haas Racing teammates Clint Bowyer and Kevin Harvick also responded to Busch’s remarks, with Bowyer stating that he understands why the young drivers are the drivers used in these campaigns and Harvick essentially laughing at Busch’s position on the matter and saying that the younger drivers need to be marketed more in order to introduce them to the fans.

Here is what Blaney had to say about the subject, according to NASCAR.

"“I feel like if some drivers were more willing to do these things, they’d get asked more to do it. And the reason why I get asked to do it a lot is because I say yes a lot, because I think it’s good for the sport and myself. I can tell you personally, (Kyle Busch) doesn’t like doing a lot of stuff, so they don’t ask him. So that kind of made me upset, how he bashed that part of it. But, to each his own. If he doesn’t want to do anything, so be it.”"

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Blaney, who is set to enter his third full-time season in the Cup Series and first as a Team Penske driver this season, is absolutely right. Most of the drivers who want to be involved in these kind of marketing campaigns are the younger drivers, not veterans like Busch.

It is also not hard in any way, shape or form to believe that Busch, who is set to enter his 14th full-time season in the Cup Series this season, wants anything to do with these marketing campaigns anyway. He has constantly made himself an enemy of NASCAR, the media and the fans, and Blaney is essentially calling him out for doing that yet again in this case. After all, Blaney came right out and said that Busch doesn’t even like participating in these campaigns to begin with.

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Is Kyle Busch just seeking attention like Ryan Blaney is getting at, or is he legitimately upset that the younger drivers are getting to be involved in these marketing campaigns more so than NASCAR’s veterans are?