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Kyle Busch goes off on Alex Bowman, tells him to 'f*** off' after pit road incident: 'We all f***ing suck'

JHby: Jonathan Howard08/03/25Jondean25
Kyle Busch
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Good fortune for Kyle Busch in Stage 2 at Iowa, but the NASCAR driver was still frustrated with Alex Bowman on pit road. Busch blocked Bowman during pit stops by really no fault of his own. An awkward entry from the 8 led to a traffic jam, and Bowman was not happy.

Leave it to Kyle Busch to take the frustration another driver has with him and turn in back against them twice as much. He was fuming on the radio, talking to his team about his feelings towards the 48 at the time.

“Go tell the 48 to f**k off. It’s a shitty situation, we all f***ing suck. What do you want me to f***ing do?” Busch said on his radio, via Steven Taranto of CBS Sports. Busch also threw his hand out of the window and probably gave Bowman a friendly gesture.

Kyle Busch has already had an eventful Iowa Speedway weekend. He wrecked a very speedy No. 8 car in practice after going P2 in Group 1. Rowdy knows that his team has the cars this weekend to compete for the lead and possibly punch his ticket to the playoffs.

You can understand his frustration when he has had such a difficult season. Nothing has come easy for Busch and his team. Even when they manage to have a good race, things find a way to fall apart.

For Alex Bowman, it is very similar. He wants to get a win and lock himself into the playoffs. Right now, he’s fighting to make it on points as a backup. So, there is a lot of emotion between both of these drivers.

Kyle Busch lost his trust in RCR cars after practice

I guess he is in a position in this race where he can’t worry about trust or any of that. However, Kyle Busch noted after his wreck on Saturday that his trust in the RCR cars had completely gone away. “Zero” is how the two-time champion put it.

“Came out of Turn 4 really hot and heavy and hard on it. And you know, went off into Turn 1 with too much trust, and chattered the right rear and then overcorrected it and smacked the fence,” Busch said. “So, yeah, just not real sure how to find more trust or when you feel something good in one corner, it’s not there in he next.”

Kyle Busch wanted to keep that car for the race today. But his backup isn’t going too bad. Here is more of what he said after practice.

“Obviously, it’s tough for the guys. Hate it for the guys. Everybody at RCR, especially the 8 crew here. I’m sure we’ll rely on some of the 3 guys to try to help us get the backup car prepared overnight and get us into the race tomorrow.

“I mean, obviously we had decent speed, you know, just trying to work on up to it and consistently just get better and better with laps. So, that’ll be about the same thing we got to do tomorrow. Just kind of, you know, I was probably built up to about 75, 80 percent trust. Now I’m back to zero again, you know. So, just trying to figure all that out. Lap by lap.”