Video: Kurt Busch ditches safety crew at Talledega
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NASCAR driver Kurt Busch spun out on the 99th lap of the Good Sam Roadside Assistance 500 at the Talledega Superspeedway. Then he ditched his safety crew.
He literally drove off against their wishes without wearing his helmet.
You can check out the action at 1:57 in the video. You’ll see the crew’s safety equipment fly off of Busch’s car.
“We ran out of gas while leading, fuel cell wasn’t big enough,” Busch said. “Small team blues. You work as hard as you can to keep up with the big teams and sometimes little itty bitty things take you out.”
NASCAR parked him for the remainder of the race.
“I guess they were telling me to stop,” Busch said. “That’s the competitor and the desire I have to stay in a race and keep going. I was hoping to get it back in the garage to work on it and NASCAR started yelling at me and I didn’t have my helmet on and couldn’t hear them.”
Busch, who is known for his childish antics, now realizes he’s in trouble.
“Now I’m in worse trouble,” Busch said. “This is the story of my life. Kurt Busch leads the race, runs out of gas, gets yelled at by NASCAR, and now I have a storm of media around me and I don’t know what to do or what to say next. I thanked the guys for a great year, and sorry about the way it turned out.”
Busch was suspended in June for verbally abusing a reporter and was put on probation through the end of the year.
NASCAR said it is checking into how this incident might impact Busch in the future.
Busch is supposed to make his debut with a new racing team, Furniture Row Racing, on Saturday in Charlotte.
Nascar has two rules one for their favorites and one for the regular drivers. Nothing was said when Dale Jr. gave Jimmy Johnson a ride on the window of the car back to the pits. That is more dangerous than Kurt driving without a helmet. But lets see if anything is ever said about Jimmy and what they will do to Kurt.
Nascar is a twin to Kurt Busch. He is a great driver, Nascar is a great sport, Kurt continues to make mistakes and Nascar continues to make mistakes. Kurt takes himself out and Nascar is also taking itself out. The stands continue to have more and more empty seats. Nascar is trying to turn Kurt into a “sissy.” Nascar is tuning its sport into a sissy sport. The reason for watching cars go around and around repeatedly is to see something happen to someone other than your favorite driver. While the track is being repaired or whatever base on the caution call, we go to the restroom, get refreshments and talk to our neighbors…or shall we say argue with out neighbors about who caused the problem. I stopped going to races, because only a select few fans have a real reason to care about the outcome well before the chase is totally decided. Remember when the lap cars were mixed in with the great cars…took the fun out again. If your driver goes out after becoming a lap down, he can very well be out of the race soon after it begins, depending on the particular track and how many other racers are lapped. It is no longer fun to spend the money we spend going to the races. Three or four laps into the race your driver may be done for the day. Big famous teams come out each week equiped with the most expensive equipment and crews and leave little chance for teams with hearts and desire a chance at all at winning. The sport has overhauled itself and its rules to the point that race time has become perfect for taking a nap after the first 50 laps.
guess kurt busch dosen’t want a career in NASCAR for long that’s way he’s not running for a big name team you just can’t do what you want in NASCAR glad they parked him for the rest of the race should park him for the rest of the season wouldn’t blam them one bite if a fine comes his way he should get one not only did he put himself in danger for having a damaged car but he dosen’t care about the other drivers.
i think they sould ban him from nascar, he nothing but a lose canon
Kurt was right when he said this year he has been tested. As far as I am concerned he passed the test. I sure hope next year is a good year for him. He is a heck of a driver and NASCAR is better for having guys like him that are true racers.