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Kyle Busch and Kyle Larson: A Rivalry Fueled by Record-Breaking Ambitions and Unfortunate Failures

Carl Harrison by Carl Harrison
March 23, 2025
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Kyle Busch and Kyle Larson: A Rivalry Fueled by Record-Breaking Ambitions and Unfortunate Failures

Feb 16, 2025; Daytona Beach, Florida, USA; NASCAR Cup Series driver Kyle Busch (8) and driver Kyle Larson (5) during drive introductions before the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway. Mandatory Credit: Peter Casey-Imagn Images

In the adrenaline-charged arena of motorsports, rivalries serve as the lifeblood, spurring drivers to shatter existing records and assert their dominance. This weekend’s high-octane race at the Homestead-Miami Speedway is a testament to this age-old culture of competition.

Social media has become an unconventional battleground for these racing titans, and no one personifies this combative spirit more than Kyle Busch, fondly known as ‘Rowdy.’ Busch recently took to his social media, responding to a post about Kyle Larson’s victory in the Truck Series race. Larson was gunning for Busch’s hallowed record of winning all three series races in a single weekend, a herculean task that Busch had accomplished twice, in 2010 and 2017, at Bristol.

Busch, never one to mince words, made his thoughts clear about Larson’s quest to equal his record. He said, “Yeah. I mean, I did it first. So, you know, I feel like, you know, I sent out the tweet because Larson’s cherry picking at Homestead. You know what I mean? Like, obviously, this is his place. He’s known to be super, super good here, super comfortable running the wall. So you get a lot of benefit from that, and so he’s one of the best at doing it. So he’s probably got the best shot of that.”

As Larson arrived at Homestead ready to etch his name into the annals of history, Busch had already made his stance clear via a succinct tweet, “@KyleLarsonRacin.” Larson was primed to be the latest Cup driver. He clinched a miraculous win during the truck race, where he navigated his way through the field after a spin-out, overtaking a malfunction-ridden Corey Heim and outrunning Layne Riggs in the final laps.

Larson was optimistic, saying, “I felt like the Truck race was probably going to be the toughest to win, I don’t have much experience in them and the runs are typically shorter. I feel better about Xfinity and Cup, but the competition keeps getting tough and tougher as you get on with the weekend, but we’ll see. Off to a good start.” However, his luck took a turn for the worse during the last leg of the Xfinity race.

Larson, having led 132 out of the 201 laps, seemed poised to win comfortably with a 16-second lead. But fate had other plans. A late spin by Taylor Gray brought out a caution, and in the overtime restart, Sam Mayer made contact with Larson, ending his dream of matching Busch’s record.

Larson reflected on the incident, “I can’t go when my rear tires are off the ground. So I know it looks like I choked another one away, but I did everything I thought I could [to win]. The 41 just lagged back and slammed me.” This was not the first time Larson’s luck abandoned him at Homestead. His performance has seen a steady decline since 2022, with numerous unfortunate incidents marring his races.

Meanwhile, Kyle Busch remains the sole driver to have pulled off the weekend sweep twice, cementing his status as a motorsport legend. Nonetheless, there’s one aspect of Larson’s success that Busch envies: the joy of celebrating victories with his son, something Larson frequently does with young Owen Larson.

Busch’s winless streak has stretched past 60 races, a tough pill to swallow for a driver known for his prowess across all levels of NASCAR. He laments, “Brexton, when we were in our highs of 2015, ’16, ’17, ’18 and even some of ’19, we won four or five, six, eight races a year in those years. So, he was too young to really kind of remember it and take part in those, because he wasn’t that perfect age of running out to the track. You know, now that he’s a little bit older, he wants to be a part of that, and I’m not winning as much. So, it is tough. It’s more tough on, probably for me, feeling bad for him, that he doesn’t get to enjoy that as much, and I feel bad for me that I don’t get to enjoy in being able to go to Victory Lane as much as I once did. But life is life.”

This gripping saga of rivalry and aspiration continues to captivate fans, as these racing gladiators vie for supremacy on the asphalt battlefield.

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