Patrick: NASCAR 'needed' Busch's personality
Dan Patrick reflects on the sudden death of NASCAR legend Kyle Busch, reacting to a quote from his final win at Dover in the Truck Series and explaining how the sport 'needed' Busch's personality and someone who was fun.
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Shocking news yesterday, Kyle Busch, the NASCAR legend, passed away unexpectedly at the age of forty-one.
It was last Friday when Busch won the, Craftsman Truck Series.
That was at Dover Motor Speedway, and he was asked after the race why such moments never grow old, and he said, "Because you never know when the last one is."
And, a week later, Kyle Busch is, dead at the age of forty-one.
And when you think about great drivers, like driving any kind of car, I would say Tony Stewart twenty years, twenty-five years ago, but Busch had become that probably ten years ago, two-time NASCAR champ, and, he was fun.
He liked to wear the black hat.
He liked to be the villain.
He and NASCAR needed it at that time because they were kind of void of personalities.
We were looking, where's the next Dale Sr.?
Everybody seems to be nice.
They're corporate.
They're business guys.
We like guys rubbing and racing and, you know, Kyle was like that.
We had him in studio and, that was about ten years ago, I think, that we had him in the New York studio, and he was fun.
he wasn't afraid to mix it up and, a, a larger than life personality, but passing away unexpectedly at the age of forty-one.
