Disappointed Kyle Busch takes blame for Mexico City wreck, taking out Kyle Larson

Kyle Busch didn’t last long in Sunday’s Viva Mexico 250 at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City. Busch went for a spin on Lap 8.

The race has just restarted under damp conditions, meaning drivers were working with the wet-weather tires. It was raining and that spelled trouble for Busch and his No. 8 Chevrolet. Busch lost control heading into Turn 1, barreling into Justin Haley, collecting Kyle Larson, AJ Allmendinger, and Zane Smith. He took blame for the incident.

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“I went to the brakes and just ice,” Busch told Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports. “Maybe it was a little too heavy of a brake spike. Just turned around backwards and spun out backwards. Hate it for all the guys that got involved because it was, obviously, purely my fault. I don’t know what I could have done differently. I broke at the 10 marker. It’s not like I was trying to break at the six.

“I was in trouble for a good second or two and then I was like, ‘I am going to nail some people so I probably should turn around backwards, and it at least try to soften the blow.'”

Kyle Busch posts DNF finish at Mexico City after early wreck

Busch’s team tried to work on the car and get it back on the racetrack. They could not get it fixed, prematurely ending their day.

A DNF is hardly what Busch needed. He looked to be fast coming into the race, starting from P11. Now, he’s 44 points below the playoff cutline with just 10 regular season races remaining. Worse, Busch’s career-long winless streak is up to 73.

The last two years haven’t been the Rowdy of old. He is signed to Richard Childress Racing for the 2026 season, meaning there’s plenty of motivation for both sides to get this thing back on track.