Kyle Busch and Richard Childress on same page over NASCAR improvements
Kyle Busch will remain with Richard Childress Racing through the 2026 season and he's in agreement with the team's owner over areas to improve.
Kyle Busch and Richard Childress are in complete agreement over what the NASCAR team needs to do to start putting wins on the board. Two-time Cup Series champion Busch, 40, is closing in on 70 races without a win in NASCAR's leading series.
The Richard Childress Racing star's last victory came at Illinois in 2023. Busch made a painful admission over his lengthy absence from Victory Lane and its impact on his son, Brexton, 10, who is an aspiring motorsport driver.
Despite Busch's lack of Cup Series wins, RCR triggered an option in the father-of-two's contract to keep him with the team throughout 2026. Both parties are thrilled with the decision, but attention has now turned towards the team improving into a competitor for regular race wins.
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Busch has conceded that he hasn't spent as much time at the team's shop as he should, and it's something he will attempt to work into his calendar. Team owner Childress says the fine details need to be ironed out to make them competitive for both Busch and teammate Austin Dillon.
"I would love to be up at the shop a little bit more. I will say and be honest that I'm not there as much as I'd like to be. So you know, maybe there's a step in that timeframe that I can work into my calendar," Busch said ahead of the Coca-Cola 600. "These small details on the cars mean so much, and that's where we got to work more and more and concentrate on the small details," Childress added.
Busch says the No. 8 car and crew need consistency across a whole race, not just in phases. "I feel like there's times in the race where we do have, you know, top speed, but it's not the whole race. So, you know, we've got to work on beginning to end and being able to put everything together," he said.
"The guys at the shop have been doing a good job working on all of that, whether it's car build or little things in the setups," he added.
Busch won the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 2018, taking the chequered flag. He is the first driver in the modern era to win at all active tracks in which the series competed.
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"It's a longer race, so you have more time from sunlight to nighttime, and typically, you don't really worry about how your car is until you get to the nighttime because that's when the money's paid, so you want to be fast at that time of the day," Busch continued on the Coca-Cola 600.
"There are so many little details that you can find (on the car). If you find 100 small, tiny details, then that's all going to add up."
