Kyle Busch Attacked By Furious NASCAR Father, Reporters Wiped Out During Brawl & Pit Guy Takes Out Everyone
Now we're talking, baby! THAT's the NASCAR we all grew up with, right? The one our daddys and grandmas fell in love with.
Thank you, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. You promised us early on in last night's All-Star race that you'd beat the piss out of Kyle Busch and … well, you sort of did.
If we're being honest, the real hero today is Ricky Stenhouse Sr. That's right. Ricky's daddy absolutely stole the show last night. Guy was electric. He was an animal.
Frankly, if I ranked everyone from The Fight, I think I'd go …
- Ricky's daddy
- Kyle Busch
- NASCAR on FOX reporter Bob Pockrass
- Kyle's psycho pit crew member
- Ricky Stenhouse
I don't wanna sound anti-Ricky today – believe me, I always welcome this sort of NASCAR content after an otherwise uneventful race – but there were some absolute superstars that emerged from the carnage, and he was a bystander for most of it.
You'll see. I've got cobbled up more camera angles than a modern day porno, so we're gonna attack this fight with piss and vinegar today. Let's roll, baby!
Normally, this is the part where I'd go over what else we're gonna discuss today, but let's be real, it's gonna be 99% fight.
Hey! We do have Natalie Decker and her mom hitting the pool! Let's go over that, too. Sound good?
Good! Four tires, a tiny bit of fuel, and a few days worth of detention for Ricky Stenhouse Jr., his daddy, and Kyle Busch … Monday Morning Pit-Stop – the ‘SOMEONE GET MY DAD!’ edition – is LIVE!
First, let's start with … how it started
Before we jump in and start beating the piss out of Kyle Busch, let's examine how exactly we got there.
Everyone on Twitter is a fake NASCAR fan this morning because the fight is going viral – which is good! – but I'd wager 99% of the folks watching it don't know why Ricky was throwing right-hooks at 10 p.m.
It's simple … Kyle was an idiot. There's no other way to say it. For as much as I love Kyle Busch, he jumped the gun on Lap 2 (!!!) of a 200-lap race and decided to punt Ricky into the fence because he thought Stenhouse squeezed him.
Stenhouse … didn't. He didn't! He made it a three-wide, and actually left Kyle with plenty of room up top. Didn't even get close to him. Kyle's the one who put himself in the fence.
I'm always Team-KB here – but fair is fair. Sorry.
Now, let's explore all the intricacies of this NASCAR fight that blew up the internet
God forbid the internet gives me another angle of the actual wreck, but whatever. You see enough from the in-car view. Trust me, Stenhouse didn't put Kyle Busch in the wall.
Disagree? Agree? Think I'm a dummy? Zach.Dean@OutKick.com. Let's get after it.
Now, a couple things after the wreck before we get to the actual fight …
First, Stenhouse parking his car in Kyle's pit box? Funny. I like the creativity there. We respect stuff like that around here.
Second, the hold my watch reference? It dates back to when Richard Childress – now Kyle Busch's car owner – once went after Kyle after a truck race back in 2011, and told grandson Austin Dillon "hold my watch" before going after him.
That's such a badass way to start a fight, by the way. I hope to God at some point in my life I have enough wealth to ask my grandson to hold my $30,000 Rolex before I go and beat the piss out of someone. What a bonding moment that must be.
Third, Ricky telling us over and over again to "watch" after the race was lame. Dude, we got it. We know. You don't need to promote the fight like a PPV event. Just act mad and give us a wink and a nod. We'll get it.
And fourth …. could you imagine waiting around TWO HOURS just to fight someone? There is absolutely no shot I'd ever be that mad about something that I'd wait two hours just to punch a guy. How could you still be that hot two hours later?
I'd be so tanked by then I'd most likely just pass out and be over it by the morning. Wild.
OK … roll tape!!!! First up, the mainstream angle that everyone saw:
That was good, but didn't tell the whole story
So, Ricky lands a right-hook, and off we go! Seems like a decent little squabble, right?
But you ain't seen nothing yet!
Like I said earlier, the star of the show was Ricky Stenhouse Sr., Ricky's daddy, who I'd imagine is probably in his 60s, stepped right in as his boy was being dragged away, and proceeded to finish what Junior had started.
When I was in Little League decades ago, I once witnessed a Battle Royale for the ages between my dad and my best friend's dad. I'd imagine they were tanked or something, but they were arguing over balls and strikes.
Anyway, they got face-to-face after the game as we were leaving, and nearly came to blows. My grandpa – God rest his soul – was behind my dad the whole time, just waiting to pounce. Never came to that, but he was ready.
This is what we had here:
Finally, Kyle Busch had the line of the NASCAR season
"Dad! Dad!! Someone get my dad."
God, we've all been there before, haven't we? The defeated "someone get my dad" at the end was just perfect. At that point, you're just sort of embarrassed and want to get the hell out of there.
It's clearly just not going how Ricky Stenhouse Jr. planned, which is weird because he had TWO HOURS to map this fight out and got one swing in before getting dragged away. One! The security at these NASCAR races piss me off so much.
Fellas – can we let them duke it out for like 10 seconds before we intervene? Hey, pops, you'll get your chance in a second. Just let me handle it first, OK?
They ruined what would've been a good fight between Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Kyle Busch, and turned it into Kyle versus Ricky Sr. That was a perfectly fine consolation, but I would've liked to see how the first one turned out.
Now, the other takeaways? Kyle's pit crew guy was an ANIMAL. That above tweet is 100% right. He was just mauling people last night. Anyone that came his way got their ass beat. It was a bloodbath.
Another takeaway – and angle? Remember when I mentioned Pockrass earlier? Well …
BOB!!!!! When they showed that angle on the FOX post-race show, I nearly spit my drink out. If you know Bob Pockrass, it's that much better.
Absolute Hall of Fame moment in his career. Incredible.
Finally, this line from Kyle Busch at the end is maybe the single-greatest quote in NASCAR history:
The NASCAR WAGs take us to Charlotte
"Bring it, I don't give a f--k, I suck just as bad as you, let's go!" Put it on a shirt, NOW. I know we're all plastering Scottie Scheffler's mug on a shirt today, but this Kyle Busch quote deserves some stitching, too. Hilarious.
Whew. What a fight. Just so many layers. Just an unreal amount of momentum for NASCAR right now. Between the finish a few weeks ago and this, we head into the biggest weekend of the motorsports season with a lot of juice. Can't wait.
As for the rest of last night's race … eh. It was fine. Frankly, the passing behind leader Joey Logano was pretty good. But Logano led every single lap – except one! – of a 200-lap race. Wasn't great. Good for him, though. He won a million bucks and didn't get mauled on live TV. That's a win.
Not much else to talk about coming out of North Wilkesboro, so I reckon we'll end the day with Madyson Stenhouse, Samantha Busch, and Natalie Decker. Sound like a plan? Thought so.
Now, let's go race 600 miles at Charlotte.