An angry Ricky Stenhouse Jr. confronted Kyle Busch and then punched him after Sunday night’s NASCAR All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway, leading to a brief brief between the teams in the garage. Started a fight.
Stenhouse made an aggressive move on the opening lap of the race and Busch ended up hitting the wall, which caused Busch to intentionally crash Stenhouse and eliminate him on lap two. However, North Wilkesboro is an old track with no exit tunnels, so there was nothing to do but wait for Busch until the Stenhouse race was over.
Sure enough, Stenhouse was standing next to Busch’s truck as the driver of car number 8 approached. After a brief conversation, Stenhouse started the fight by swinging his body around. Next, team members participated.
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“You put up the fence yourself,” Stenhouse said. athleticThis is Jordan Bianchi. “I didn’t touch you!”
When Busch disputed this, Stenhouse’s eyes widened and he added: “I didn’t touch you. Not once.”
“We all beat each other up,” Bush said.
“no. “You put up a fence and then hit me.” Stenhouse said.
Busch again said that was not true and Stenhouse swung his fist and appeared to hit Busch in the face.
After initial contact, Stenhouse’s father, Ricky Stenhouse Sr., also chased after Busch and swung at him.
“Daddy daddy!” After Stenhouse Jr. fell to the ground, he asked a flight attendant, “Can you get my dad?”
Stenhouse Sr. and Busch became angry and held each other for a moment before pulling each other apart.
“Bring it! I don’t care—” Busch yelled at Stenhouse Jr. “I’m just as bad as you! let’s go!”
Busch addressed his disappointing season thus far and his 10th-place finish Sunday night. Stenhouse is struggling again this year after winning the Daytona 500 last season.
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