‘Confidence is high’ for Kyle Busch despite recent setbacks
Despite four finishes outside the top 20 in the last five races, Kyle Busch remains encouraged with his team's playbook to turn around performance before the playoffs.
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00:00 Hey, Kyle.
00:00 Holly Kane with the NASCAR Wire Service.
00:03 Obviously, you've raced with Hendrick.
00:04 You've won championships with Joe Gibbs.
00:07 How do you see your team going down the stretch,
00:10 head to head with them, taking Richard Childress
00:12 and being able to do that?
00:13 Is there something that you look at and say,
00:15 we need to do this still?
00:17 Or what's your confidence level, I guess?
00:19 Yeah, I mean, my confidence is high.
00:21 Like, I like the group and the stuff that we do
00:23 and the philosophies and ideas and what we learn
00:26 and all of that stuff.
00:27 Like, it's all really good.
00:28 It's just a matter of putting it all together
00:31 and having it just run smooth.
00:33 And that's not due to anybody's fault.
00:35 It's a lot of circumstances, you know?
00:38 Loudon, we struggle.
00:39 We missed on that one.
00:40 We completely missed the boat on that one.
00:42 But then we had a full-fledged effort and work
00:45 in Sim and everywhere else on what
00:46 we can do to figure out Richmond to not have
00:49 that same thing happen again.
00:50 And we had a solid race at Richmond.
00:52 We ran third.
00:53 You know what I mean?
00:53 So there was a playbook there that we
00:56 were able to get a fix.
00:59 And that's, to me, not intriguing.
01:04 What's the word?
01:07 Just-- that's good, right?
01:09 That was encouraging.
01:10 Thank you.
01:11 Yes, encouraging.
01:12 Great.
01:12 Thanks, Encyclopedia Bob.
01:16 But to me, the struggles have just kind of
01:20 been the stop the bleeding pieces, you know?
01:22 Just stuff out of our control that kind of keeps happening.
01:26 You know, which I guess some of it was in our control.
01:29 Pocono, for instance, we just had really bad pit stops
01:31 all day.
01:31 And every time we thought we had an opportunity
01:33 to jump some guys and get forward a little bit,
01:35 we had a 15-second pit stop.
01:37 You know what I mean?
01:38 So just stuff like that that just--
01:40 we can't keep beating ourselves.