Kyle Busch

Richard Childress Racing announced Tuesday that Kyle Busch will drive for the organization in the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series.

Busch has also enjoyed success on the team ownership side, forming Kyle Busch Motorsports for Camping World Truck Series competition in 2010. 11 Camry, has been aligned with Gibbs longer — since he joined the Cup Series in 2005. Busch began his career as a Chevrolet prospect, joining the Cup Series full-time in 2005 with Hendrick Motorsports. After an escalating series of tense moments between Busch and then-RCR driver Kevin Harvick, Childress confronted Busch after the driver had a run-in with Joey Coulter — another former RCR pilot — during a Camping World Truck Series race in 2011 at Kansas Speedway. That win in April extended his streak of seasons with at least one Cup Series victory to 18. “And we’d be foolish not to put everything in play to keep him in the family.” “The addition of Kyle Busch to the Richard Childress Racing lineup is significant, not only for our organization, but for the sport as a whole,” Childress said in a team release. “Kyle is a proven contender at the highest levels of the sport, and I believe that his experience and dedication to motorsports will elevate our race program across the board. The 37-year-old driver won Cup Series titles with the team in 2015 and 2019, and he is JGR’s winningest driver, collecting 56 of his 60 total Cup victories with the No. “There’s going to be one winner, and the rest are not winners, if you look at it in that regard.” We also know he still has many more achievements in our sport ahead of him including competing for the championship this season. “Growing up in a family of passionate racers myself, I feel like the culture that the Childress family has built within their organization will be an ideal fit for me.

Kyle Busch will move back to the Chevrolet brand in NASCAR starting in 2023 with Richard Childress Racing. The announcement was made Tuesday and will have ...

But more than that, Kyle has been a friend, part of our family and has played a key role in the development of many of our drivers through his ownership of Kyle Busch Motorsports. Harvick confronted Busch on pit road and took a swing at him while Busch was still inside the car. “I’ve always admired Kyle’s driving style and his ability to win and race for championships ever since he entered the sport. The young brash Busch was known for angry outbursts on and off the track. Busch said he needed a “reset” and a “boss who understands where I’ve been.” He added that he really began interest in the team when Reddick “blew his doors off” in the No. [Childress confronted Busch ](https://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/truck/news/story?id=6626446)after Busch ran into his driver at the time Joey Coulter, on the cool down lap. “And that’s what we continue to do.” Busch will return to Chevy, the manufacturer he began his Cup career with at Hendrick Motorsports. The driver and his new team owner have a contentious past. Earlier this summer Childress was stunned when Reddick announced he would be leaving RCR at the end of 2023 to move to 23XI Racing which fields Toyota’s. “I feel like the culture that the Childress family has built within their organization will be an ideal fit for me,” Busch said. announced they would be leavin](https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregengle/2021/12/20/despite-losing-a-primary-sponsor-nascars-kyle-busch-joe-gibbs-racing-in-a-good-place/)g NASCAR at the end of this season after 30 years in the sport with the last 14 years being at Joe Gibbs Racing and Busch.

“While we certainly wish Kyle the best of luck in the future and congratulate him on his announcement to join Richard Childress Racing, we're disappointed and ...

“I haven’t gotten into the trenches on much of that yet,” he said. “I told this to Kyle, ‘We’re survivors and we’re fighters at RCR,” Dillon said. “I’m hopeful that a fresh start can kind of clean up some of the aggravations of mistakes and things like that that have kind of happened over the last couple of years on my side of things,” he said. When you’re a part of this organization, we’re going to fight together as long as you’re willing to fight with us. “I always remembered that about Kyle, even through the family stuff, the fight and all that. So he was one of the only guys to offer me a ride other than my grandfather. “One thing Kyle did for me, when I was coming up in the Truck series, we raced against each other a lot in 2010, 2011,” Dillon said. “The priority list was ‘Can I win races? [Tyler Reddick](https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/auto-racing/nascar/player/48325/tyler-reddick) about an hour before the announcement that Reddick would not be in the No. … In Trucks, we have two drivers that made the playoffs, one of them got washed out last week. “None of the teams that I spoke to, that was not on the priority list,” Busch said. It was a less-than-subtle reference to Childress saying previously he was not aware of Reddick’s announcement to 23XI Racing in 2024 until about an hour before it was made.

Two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch confirmed Tuesday he will join Richard Childress Racing and the Chevrolet camp next season.

Bubba Wallace claimed his maiden NASCAR Cup Series at Talladega on Monday to become the first Black victor in the category since Wendell Scott in 1963. It’s not just Formula 1 that’s set for upheaval in 2022, as the NASCAR Cup series adopts its Next Gen cars that will cast any in-built advantages aside and require teams to adopt a totally new way of operating. After holding his nerve and hip-checking his teammate on the run to the line, Austin Cindric made a perfect start to life as a full-timer in the NASCAR Cup Series by winning the Daytona 500.

Kyle Busch will not return to Joe Gibbs Racing for the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series season. Could the team think outside the box in terms of his replacement?

But could Joe Gibbs Racing think outside of the box here, and if so, is Tyler Reddick a possibility? plans to return to Joe Gibbs Racing, has been [the situation of teammate Kyle Busch](https://beyondtheflag.com/2022/06/25/nascar-martin-truex-jr-deal-leaves-one-seat-open-2023/). Kyle Busch will not return to Joe Gibbs Racing for the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series season. He is set to join Richard Childress Racing and Chevrolet following a 15-year run with Toyota. But all parties could benefit from this unconventional move in 2023 and beyond. Multiple teams offered him a contract for next year.

Richard Childress Racing clearly wasn't the first choice for Kyle Busch but perhaps all things considered it may be the best one.

Bubba Wallace claimed his maiden NASCAR Cup Series at Talladega on Monday to become the first Black victor in the category since Wendell Scott in 1963. It’s not just Formula 1 that’s set for upheaval in 2022, as the NASCAR Cup series adopts its Next Gen cars that will cast any in-built advantages aside and require teams to adopt a totally new way of operating. After holding his nerve and hip-checking his teammate on the run to the line, Austin Cindric made a perfect start to life as a full-timer in the NASCAR Cup Series by winning the Daytona 500.