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Camping World Trucks
TRUCKS: Kyle Busch, Hornaday Clash At Texas
NASCAR parks Kyle Busch after he shoves Hornaday into wall early in Texas race…
Kyle Busch lost his composure – and maybe more. Ron Hornaday Jr. lost a chance at a championship – and could have lost much more.
And this was only 14 laps into Friday night’s WinStar 350 Camping World Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.
After Busch and Hornaday made side-to-side contact while lapping another truck and then brushed the wall in tandem, Busch retaliated immediately. As the rest of the field slowed under the caution flag, Busch accelerated and locked onto the rear of Hornaday’s truck, eventually pushing him hard into the outside wall. The contact also sent Busch into the wall, and their trucks collided again as they bounced off the wall.
Both trucks were heavily damaged. NASCAR parked Busch, who admitted intentionally wrecking Hornaday with the second contact, for the rest of the race. Hornaday was tied for third in the series point standings entering the race.
Hornaday was livid.
“That’s just ignorant and stupid,” he said. “I don’t know what you want to call it. He’s such a candy-ass. He won’t stay around to get a whipping like he’s supposed to get.
“It’s a shame. It’s not like I did anything wrong. I ran him down from a straightaway. He knew I was faster. I moved up down the straightaway. He had his fit. Left front tire to my right quarter panel, you know you’re going to get loose and that’s what he meant to do.’’
Busch didn’t back away from the charge.
“It’s two guys racing for tight real estate, and there’s only two lanes of race track out there right now,” he said. “I’m racing for a win just as much as Ron Hornaday. It’s lap 15. He wants to make it three wide with a lapped car and knowing you always get loose when you’re on the inside. He got loose and got into me and knocked me up into the wall, and I lost my cool, yeah, no doubt about it. I retaliated.
“It’s certainly my fault for doing that. For everybody who wants to say that Hornaday is racing for a championship, [so] just roll over. That’s not my fashion. That’s not anybody else’s fashion out here. All these race car drivers are racers out to win a race. That’s what I was here to do, and I got taken out of it on lap 15.
“When he races up on my inside and gets loose and takes me up to the fence, I ended up losing my cool. I’ve been wrecked four weeks in a row, and, finally, I just had enough of it. Sorry it was Ron Hornaday and he’s going after a championship, but the fact of the matter is, you can’t place all blame on one person. There were two people that got into it to begin with and there were two people that ended it.’’
Busch, ordered to the NASCAR mobile office after the race, met with several officials for a few minutes and left the garage area without commenting on the session. There was no announcement Friday night regarding any possible future penalties facing Busch, who is expected to meet with NASCAR officials at the track again Saturday, when he is scheduled to start second in a Nationwide Series race.
Ironically, Kevin Harvick, Hornaday’s truck owner, once was suspended from the next day’s Cup race at Martinsville Speedway after a similar incident in a Truck race at that track.
Harvick, who won Friday night’s race, expressed his displeasure with Busch’s actions over the team radio during the race and was still steamed afterward.
After winning the race, Harvick, who has a bumpy history with Busch, said Busch “is going to grow up, or he’s going to have some swollen eyes.”
Mike Hembree is NASCAR Editor for SPEED.com and has been covering motorsports for 29 years. He is a six-time winner of the National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year Award.
And this was only 14 laps into Friday night’s WinStar 350 Camping World Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway.
After Busch and Hornaday made side-to-side contact while lapping another truck and then brushed the wall in tandem, Busch retaliated immediately. As the rest of the field slowed under the caution flag, Busch accelerated and locked onto the rear of Hornaday’s truck, eventually pushing him hard into the outside wall. The contact also sent Busch into the wall, and their trucks collided again as they bounced off the wall.
Both trucks were heavily damaged. NASCAR parked Busch, who admitted intentionally wrecking Hornaday with the second contact, for the rest of the race. Hornaday was tied for third in the series point standings entering the race.
Hornaday was livid.
“That’s just ignorant and stupid,” he said. “I don’t know what you want to call it. He’s such a candy-ass. He won’t stay around to get a whipping like he’s supposed to get.
“It’s a shame. It’s not like I did anything wrong. I ran him down from a straightaway. He knew I was faster. I moved up down the straightaway. He had his fit. Left front tire to my right quarter panel, you know you’re going to get loose and that’s what he meant to do.’’
Busch didn’t back away from the charge.
“It’s two guys racing for tight real estate, and there’s only two lanes of race track out there right now,” he said. “I’m racing for a win just as much as Ron Hornaday. It’s lap 15. He wants to make it three wide with a lapped car and knowing you always get loose when you’re on the inside. He got loose and got into me and knocked me up into the wall, and I lost my cool, yeah, no doubt about it. I retaliated.
“It’s certainly my fault for doing that. For everybody who wants to say that Hornaday is racing for a championship, [so] just roll over. That’s not my fashion. That’s not anybody else’s fashion out here. All these race car drivers are racers out to win a race. That’s what I was here to do, and I got taken out of it on lap 15.
“When he races up on my inside and gets loose and takes me up to the fence, I ended up losing my cool. I’ve been wrecked four weeks in a row, and, finally, I just had enough of it. Sorry it was Ron Hornaday and he’s going after a championship, but the fact of the matter is, you can’t place all blame on one person. There were two people that got into it to begin with and there were two people that ended it.’’
Busch, ordered to the NASCAR mobile office after the race, met with several officials for a few minutes and left the garage area without commenting on the session. There was no announcement Friday night regarding any possible future penalties facing Busch, who is expected to meet with NASCAR officials at the track again Saturday, when he is scheduled to start second in a Nationwide Series race.
Ironically, Kevin Harvick, Hornaday’s truck owner, once was suspended from the next day’s Cup race at Martinsville Speedway after a similar incident in a Truck race at that track.
Harvick, who won Friday night’s race, expressed his displeasure with Busch’s actions over the team radio during the race and was still steamed afterward.
After winning the race, Harvick, who has a bumpy history with Busch, said Busch “is going to grow up, or he’s going to have some swollen eyes.”
Mike Hembree is NASCAR Editor for SPEED.com and has been covering motorsports for 29 years. He is a six-time winner of the National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year Award.
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