Samantha Busch shares two-year-old daughter's request to race alongside her brother
Kyle and Samantha Busch have two racing-mad children, with daughter Lennix looking to race with her older brother, Brexton.
NASCAR star Kyle Busch's two-year-old daughter, Lennix, already has racing fever. The two-time Cup Series champion's wife, Samantha, revealed the toddler's adorable request to race with her older brother, "Baba" Brexton.
Racing would always be in the Busch children's blood, with Brexton already competing at nine against NASCAR rival Kyle Larson's son, Owen. Now, Busch and wife Samantha have their other child, Lennix, who is already eager to get behind the wheel, with the two-year-old requesting to race with her older brother.
"Just a couple of nights ago, my next one was like, 'I wanna race with Baba,'" Samantha said during a recent interview with Believe in the Good with Haley Dillon. "She calls Brexton' Baba.' Then she said, 'I wanna race like Baba.'"
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Samantha revealed that Lennix has already undergone testing. "We had her test at Millbridge, too. So I'm like, wow, wow!" Samantha added. Samantha has often acted as a mediator for her husband Busch, who is balancing racing and mentoring Brexton, with the conflict between the father-son duo inevitable as the youngster learns his trade in motorsport from one of stock car's best.
"There are times where I want to get on him about something and I'll tell him and he's like, 'I'm trying that or I'm doing that or the car is terrible or it stinks, it's not fast enough.' And I'm like, 'Hold on a second, you got the best money can buy, all right? Sometimes it's not our problem, it's your problem. So, you've got to figure it out,'" Busch confessed to Kevin Harvick.
"Mom [Samantha] is kind of the intermediary there where she helps kind of smooth things over, and we get to a common ground," he added. Busch's wins have dried up in recent seasons, with his last coming in Illinois in 2023. He is now on a 65-race winless streak, and Busch has admitted that he is missing out on celebrating with his family on Victory Lane.
"I look through it through my son's eyes sometimes because he talks about how Owen [Larson] gets to go celebrate with Tiny Kyle [Kyle Larson] and when he wins and he gets to go run out on the racetrack and get a ride to Victory Lane and all that," Busch said.
"And Brexton [Busch's son], when we were in our highs of 2015, 16, 17, 18, even some of 19, we won four, five, six, eight races a year in those years and so he was too young to really kind of remember it and take part in those because he wasn't that perfect age of running out to the track, you know. Now that he's a little bit older, he wants to be a part of that and I'm not winning as much."
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"It is tough. It's more tough on that probably for me feeling bad for him that he doesn't get to enjoy in that as much as I feel bad for me that I don't get to enjoy in being able to go to Victory Lane as much as I once did," he continued.
"But life is life. You just keep fighting it out and keep working with the team and everybody that we've got on this year at RCR and stuff and trying to make it better to get us back to Victory Lane."
