Ricky Stenhouse Jr.: ‘Just built-up frustration’ led to Busch altercation

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. gives his side of the story after he and Kyle Busch had an altercation after the All-Star Race.

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00:00 Yeah, the interesting thing here. He couldn't leave. Stenhouse was stuck in here. And Ricky,

00:04 you told me at the end of that first interview after the incident, you may have to hold my

00:08 watch. You weren't joking. Was this pent up anger from just this moment, or does it go

00:12 back beforehand? You know, I feel like Colin. I've always raced each other really hard back

00:17 to the nationwide series when we were competing for wins. We get a week out and never had

00:22 any issues. And then, you know, I wrecked him one time at Daytona, and he's kind of

00:26 bad mouth me ever since then. So I feel like we get along with each other. Okay, outside

00:31 the racetrack, I talked to him quite a bit. I'm not sure why it was so mad that, uh, you

00:37 know, I shoved it three wide, but I mean, he hit the fence and kind of came off the

00:42 wall and ran into me. And I don't know when I was talking to him, he kept saying that

00:46 I wrecked him. So, um, yeah, just definitely built up frustration with, you know, how he

00:53 runs his mouth all the time. Um, you know about myself, but I know he's frustrated because

00:58 he doesn't run near as good as he used to. And I understand that. You know, we're we're

01:03 a single car team over here. We're working really hard, you know, go out and get better

01:07 each and every weekend. And, you know, we had a really good game plan coming in. Our

01:10 car was really strong yesterday and Friday in practice. I was looking forward to running

01:16 run into the front. I think we'd pass a couple cars there, and I was excited for the rest

01:20 of the night. And, you know, he ruined it. So, yeah, being stuck in here definitely doesn't

01:25 help the frustration. Um, you know, if there was a tunnel, I'd have probably been home

01:29 watching the end of that. But here we are. So where do you go from here? Ricky, we're

01:34 gonna go into Charlotte. Charlotte's a really good racetrack for us. And what about you

01:37 and Kyle? Uh, yeah, I don't have anything else for him. Um, I mean, if we want to do

01:42 a charity match, I would do that for, you know, raise some money for, uh, you know,

01:47 give a NASCAR foundation or something. That would be fun. But really, other than that,

01:51 I don't have a whole lot for him. Thanks for talking. Thank you, Shannon.

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