NASCAR CUP SERIES: COKE ZERO SUGAR 400

August 24, 2024

Kyle Busch

Pit Lane Interview

Q. Kyle, you did everything right tonight. How do you square this one?

KYLE BUSCH: Just finished second. It's all good. We were really, really, really lucky tonight to miss a few of them crashes.

All good. Just real proud of everybody, Randall, all the guys at RCR, ECR did a great job, brought a fast car. Was hoping we could get those three No. 8 specials on Monday, get some chicken tenders rolling, but wasn't meant to be.

We'll take this. Got a good little stretch going with these last three weeks, and hope we can do what we need to do next week.

Q. What could you have done different on the final lap?

KYLE BUSCH: I haven't seen any of it. Just from what I recall, we got off of two, somehow the bottom lane got miscombobulated, broke all of our momentum, the top lane just rolled.

Once they got in front, with as little as energy as there was with the lack of cars that there were, it was hard to make anything happen from turn four to start/finish. Besides just flat-out wrecking him, there was nothing else I could do.

Q. Can you win the Southern 500 next week?

KYLE BUSCH: Yeah, I mean, we want to. We ran good there the first time I ran with these guys early last year. But early this year, we struggled mightily. We'll just have to go with hopefully a really good package that works, get our job done.