Kyle Busch cracks joke about recent radio rants amid rough 2025 start

As Kyle Busch‘s 2025 season has started to turn south, his fiery radio activity has only gone up. Look no further than Sunday’s AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway, when Busch launched multiple rants over the radio.

But hey, at least he can joke about it still, as he did on Monday’s “Actions Detrimental” podcast. Denny Hamlin, Busch’s former Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, said he doesn’t recognize who this version of Busch is on the radio. Up until Sunday, Busch had been much calmer on the radio; why is that?

“They have a disconnect on the box for my radio button,” Busch said. “They’ll only let me talk when they know it’s pertinent.”

Busch’s latest rants involved two incidents. First, Busch was frustrated with his car early in the race and called out NASCAR.

“Un-fu*king believable,” Busch said, via Tom Bowles of Frontstretch. “This car sucks so bad. Thank you, NASCAR.”

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Then came Stage 3, where Busch’s day was ruined. He was running mid-pack when contact between Josh Berry and Noah Gragson sent his No. 8 Chevrolet into the inside grass down the backstretch. Ross Chastain was running the top, things got tight between the four cars and it was Busch on the inside who paid the price.

Busch was not happy: “Un-fu*king believable,” he said, via Jordan Bianchi of The Athletic. Stuck in the grass, he added, “It’s fu*king fu*ked.”

Busch did not stop there. After his team informed him of what happened, he took aim at the trio of Berry, Gragson and Chastain.

“They’re all fu*king clowns. Every single one of ’em,” Busch said.

Busch further explained his frustration in that moment while speaking with Hamlin: “What the hell were they doing? I mean, the 1 [Chastain] was running the top, but he was like four feet off the wall. Then the 21 [Berry] is all squiggly wiggly and hits the 4 [Gragson] and then the 4 bounces into me and spins me out.

“… I had PTSD of the Daytona crash. I was headed into the inside wall and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, this again? Like, please rudder.’ So, I downshifted into second gear and the car’s going so slow, it’s just putzing along and then it ramps over the grass because I was trying to get the motor to turn back over by itself and it just stalled on the grass.”

The two-time Cup Series champion is riding a career-long 69-race winless streak. Though at times he’s shown signs of life this season, mistakes or misfortune have always seemed to come at the worst time. He finished P21 at Kansas, his third consecutive finish outside the top-20.