TC Daily Pit Stop: Kyle Busch Says RCR 'Got Our Hands Smacked' By NASCAR During Three-Win 2023 Season; NASCAR Thinking About New O'Reilly Body Style?!
TC Daily Pit Stop: Thursday, April 23, 2026
Dear NASCAR: The O’Reilly Series Doesn’t Need A Clearer Identity
In an interview with Sports Business Journal, John Probst, NASCAR’s Executive Vice President, indicated that a swap to a crossover utility vehicle body style for the NASCAR O’Reilly Series cars is a possibility in the future, and that he believes it would give the series more of a unique identity.
I was flabbergasted by this quote, as it makes absolutely NO sense for NASCAR to try to fix the lone National Series division that is currently growing in viewership, and is regarded as the series that has the best overall racing.
I took to a column on TobyChristie.com to explain why NASCAR should not make changes to the body style of the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series cars.
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Daniel Dye To Make Cup Debut In Four-Race Schedule With Live Fast Motorsports
Daniel Dye, who was recently reinstated by NASCAR after completing sensitivity training following a situation where he made homophobic remarks aimed at IndyCar driver David Malukas in an online stream, will attempt to make his NASCAR Cup Series debut this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway.
Live Fast Motorsports announced a four-race partnership with Dye, which will see the driver attempt the events at Talladega (April), Pocono (June), Daytona (August), and Talladega (October).
This weekend, there are 41 cars on the entry list for the Jack Link’s 500 at Talladega, so Dye will have to qualify his way into the field.
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Kyle Busch: RCR ‘Got Our Hand Smacked’ By NASCAR During Three-Win 2023 Season
In an interview on FOX News Media’s Hang Out with Sean Hannity Podcast, Kyle Busch spoke at length about his feud with Denny Hamlin, and the real reasons for the struggles for him and the No. 8 Richard Childress Racing team.
According to Busch, during his first season with RCR (2023), where he won three races, NASCAR caught something on their car in their final win at Gateway, which the sanctioning body didn’t like. While it wasn’t against the rules, the team was playing in a gray area of the rule book.
“When we, in 2023, when I won those three races, after the third race that we won at Gateway, we got our hand smacked for some of the stuff that we were doing to the racecar that NASCAR didn’t like,” Busch explained to Hannity, “and they said, ‘Hey, don’t bring that back.'”
Since NASCAR asked Busch and the No. 8 team not to bring the car back to the track like that, the driver and team have massively regressed on track.
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OTHER NASCAR HEADLINES
Truck Series Veteran Ankrum Will Make O’Reilly Series Debut At ‘Dega
Entry List: 2026 NASCAR Cup Series Jack Link’s 500 at Talladega
Cleetus McFarland Set For Second O’Reilly Series Start At Nashville
Daniel Dye To Make Cup Debut In Four-Race Schedule With Live Fast Motorsports