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NASCAR star Kyle Busch dead at 41
- Thread starter crainbebo
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It just doesnt make any sense he won a truck race the week before.From a severe illness. Way out of left field.
RIP, I can't imagine how Kurt is feeling right now, and the entire NASCAR community - the fans, the announcers, the crew chiefs, Richard Childress, and the drivers. Welcome to Heaven, no more pain
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yeah, this is really tragic and did happen so sudden, and just hours after news broke he was hospitalized for the illness that took his life.
2 weeks earlier, he was asking for a doctor to give him a shot after the race at Watkins Glen International Raceway.
2 weeks earlier, he was asking for a doctor to give him a shot after the race at Watkins Glen International Raceway.
"Busch was testing in the Chevrolet racing simulator in Concord on Wednesday when he became unresponsive and was transported to a hospital in Charlotte, several people familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because details have not been disclosed by Busch’s team or family. "
Leading theory by those with internet medical degrees is an aneurysm.
RIP, champ!
Leading theory by those with internet medical degrees is an aneurysm.
RIP, champ!
What to know about Kyle Busch's death at 41
NASCAR driver Kyle Busch died Thursday at 41, three days before he was set to run the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
apnews.com
RIP and dang a racing legend left the way he did.
the cause of death was confirmed to be Pneumonia that lead to Sepsis.
also the 911 call was released yesterday where the 911 call from the GM Technical Center in Concord, NC (near Charlotte Motor Speedway and right next to Hendrick Motorsports' headquarters/shop) as on Wednesday, he became severely ill while trying to prepare for the Coca-Cola 600 and he was said to be hot and coughing up blood and had shortness of breath and was gonna pass out.
so it was likely he may have already died by the time it was announced he would miss this weekend's race hours before the news of his passing broke late Thursday afternoon.
also in the announcement preceding his death where it was announced he would miss this weekend's races at Charlotte, it was announced that Spire Motorsports, the team Kyle raced in the Craftsman Truck Series this season would replaced him in Friday's Trucks race with O'Reilly Auto Parts Series driver Corey Day (who drives the Hendrick Motorsports #17 car in that series), but the race was rained out Friday and then further rained out this morning when it was originally rescheduled to run at 8 AM EDT, now it will run at 9 PM EDT (weather pending), also Austin Hill (another O'Reilly Auto Parts Series driver, employed by Kyle's Cup Series team) was announced to drive Kyle #8 car in the Coca-Cola 600 when the news first broke that Kyle was hospitalized before his death, but after Kyle's death, the car will still race but it won't be the #8 car as Richard Childress Racing announced that Kyle's number will be retired until Kyle's son Brexton can race in NASCAR (RCR has done this before back in 2001 in the wake of Dale Earnhardt's death at the 2001 Daytona 500 where Dale raced for RCR and his number was retired and his replacement Kevin Harvick got the renumbered #29 car)
the links of all the news from ESPN, NBC News and Jayski's NASCAR Silly Season news site:
https://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/...-says-kyle-busch-died-severe-pneumonia-sepsis
911 call reveals Kyle Busch was coughing up blood, short of breath day before death
https://www.jayski.com/2026/05/21/kyle-busch-out-of-nascar-craftsman-truck-race-with-severe-illness/
https://www.jayski.com/2026/05/22/n...ard-childress-racing-team-switching-to-no-33/
https://www.jayski.com/2026/05/23/richard-childress-racing-debuts-new-no-33/
also the 911 call was released yesterday where the 911 call from the GM Technical Center in Concord, NC (near Charlotte Motor Speedway and right next to Hendrick Motorsports' headquarters/shop) as on Wednesday, he became severely ill while trying to prepare for the Coca-Cola 600 and he was said to be hot and coughing up blood and had shortness of breath and was gonna pass out.
so it was likely he may have already died by the time it was announced he would miss this weekend's race hours before the news of his passing broke late Thursday afternoon.
also in the announcement preceding his death where it was announced he would miss this weekend's races at Charlotte, it was announced that Spire Motorsports, the team Kyle raced in the Craftsman Truck Series this season would replaced him in Friday's Trucks race with O'Reilly Auto Parts Series driver Corey Day (who drives the Hendrick Motorsports #17 car in that series), but the race was rained out Friday and then further rained out this morning when it was originally rescheduled to run at 8 AM EDT, now it will run at 9 PM EDT (weather pending), also Austin Hill (another O'Reilly Auto Parts Series driver, employed by Kyle's Cup Series team) was announced to drive Kyle #8 car in the Coca-Cola 600 when the news first broke that Kyle was hospitalized before his death, but after Kyle's death, the car will still race but it won't be the #8 car as Richard Childress Racing announced that Kyle's number will be retired until Kyle's son Brexton can race in NASCAR (RCR has done this before back in 2001 in the wake of Dale Earnhardt's death at the 2001 Daytona 500 where Dale raced for RCR and his number was retired and his replacement Kevin Harvick got the renumbered #29 car)
the links of all the news from ESPN, NBC News and Jayski's NASCAR Silly Season news site:
https://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/...-says-kyle-busch-died-severe-pneumonia-sepsis
911 call reveals Kyle Busch was coughing up blood, short of breath day before death
https://www.jayski.com/2026/05/21/kyle-busch-out-of-nascar-craftsman-truck-race-with-severe-illness/
https://www.jayski.com/2026/05/22/n...ard-childress-racing-team-switching-to-no-33/
https://www.jayski.com/2026/05/23/richard-childress-racing-debuts-new-no-33/
REST IN PEACE
