Kyle Busch is a man of his word.
With his 95th career NASCAR Xfinity Series victory, and third of the 2019 season, ‘Rowdy’ is just five wins away from calling it quits in the second-tier national stock car division.
In July 2017, Busch said he would cave to fan pressure and cease to enter Xfinity Series races after reaching the 100-win milestone. When asked what 95 wins means to him on Saturday after winning the My Bariatric Solutions 300 at Texas Motor Speedway, Busch himself brought up the oath.
"What it means is that I'm closer to retirement. I said when I get 100 I'm done. Not Trucks. Just Xfinity. I told Joe (Gibbs, team owner), if you really need me to run one or two races, I'll help out, but I told him he doesn't have to sell races for me anymore. I'm done."
Busch is allowed to run seven Xfinity races per season per NASCAR’s Cup driver limitations in that tour. He has already run four and won three of them. He has three more races this year and seven next year, meaning that 2020 could very well be the end of his Xfinity career as we’ve known it.
Busch recently captured his 200th overall NASCAR national touring series victory two weekends ago at Auto Club Speedway, counting towards all three divisions.
Meanwhile, Busch says he will always race in the Truck Series, at least as long as he continues to field a team.
He won the Vankor 350 on Friday night too.
"As far as how many truck races would I continue to run or wins would I like to hit, no, because it’s my own team and I’d like to always get out there and have the opportunity to race with my own team," he said last spring.
And he takes umbrage with those who suggest that he simply races to pad his own stats.
"It’s not like that," he added. "It’s entirely to work with the people and try to educate the people. We’ve got three new engineers — two new engineers on our team this year and other new crew members and things like that, and so you try to work out the bugs with those guys."
But, if Busch is a man of his word, there will be one less NASCAR national touring division in which the 2015 Cup champion can dominate.
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