NASCAR: Kyle Busch ‘sends in his resignation’ from Joe Gibbs Racing
By Asher Fair
Frustrated with his car in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Kyle Busch “sent in his resignation” from Joe Gibbs Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series.
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch was extremely frustrated with his car with this past Sunday night’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, as he usually is when he is running in second place or worse during a NASCAR Cup Series race, and as usual, he was not afraid to show it.
But in Memorial Day fashion, he withheld the usual profanity-laced rants and instead replaced them with the repeated use of the phrase of “God bless America” to illustrate his frustration with how his car was handling.
When spotted Tony Hirschman told the driver of the #18 Toyota that he “may have nicked the wall entry to [turn] one”, however, Busch issued quite an interesting response on the radio. Here is what he had to say, according to USA Today.
"“[Expletive] plowing. Plow plow, plow, plow, plow! I quit! Joe, I send in my resignation.”"
This announcement ends a 12-year run during which Busch drove the #18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota in the Cup Series, a span during which he competed in 397 races. He earned 50 victories, recorded 160 top five finishes, 230 top 10 finishes and took 29 pole positions in these 397 races and won the 2015 championship.
Okay, not really.
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That is, unless he meant a temporary week-long resignation that is only in effect until this Sunday afternoon’s race at Pocono Raceway.
The 34-year-old Las Vegas, Nevada native still ended up finishing the 400-lap race around the four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.414-kilometer) Charlotte Motor Speedway oval in Concord, North Carolina in third place, but again, it wasn’t a win, so he wasn’t satisfied.
To an extent, there is nothing wrong with that — but this was certainly one of the more interesting ways of illustrating it, even from one of the most animated drivers if not the most animated driver in not only the Cup Series but in all of NASCAR, perhaps even in all of racing.
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Kyle Busch and the rest of the NASCAR Cup Series field are scheduled to return to action this Sunday, June 2 in the Pocono 400 at Pocono Raceway. This race is set to be broadcast live on Fox Sports 1 from the three-turn, 2.5-mile (4.023-kilometer) triangle in Long Pond, Pennsylvania beginning at 2:00 p.m. ET.