Upping the ante and excitement factor of its races, NASCAR introduced the stage racing format in 2017. While earlier restarts only occurred after a caution, the introduction of stages added more restarts that would break the monotony of long races. This move, although done to increase the chances of entertaining spin-out action, has turned out to be more chaotic rather than entertaining.

Always on the lookout for restarts as a means to blow past the competition, drivers in recent years have been involved in more wrecks, often jeopardizing a big chunk of the playing field. With NASCAR ready to unleash mayhem on Indy’s road course, Kyle Busch went on a ballistic rant against drivers who have ‘no respect’ while slamming Ryan Blaney.

Rowdy publicly calls out Ryan Blaney’s perplexing behavior

Last season’s Indy road course restarts were a disaster, to say the least. Approaching the narrow Turn 1, drivers slammed into each other, causing Chase Elliott to spin out, triggering a massive wreck. Learning from the mistakes, track officials moved the restart zone further back, placing it between Turns 13 and 14 to avoid bottleneck chaos. With these developments in mind, media personnel during the pre-race presser asked Kyle Busch if the move to push back the restart zone would benefit the playing field.

Responding to the question, Rowdy proceeded to call out drivers who have no respect, saying, “Possibly a little bit. I think the only other way to help it, even more, would just call it right now and just go single file, and make it single file starts going down the frontstretch into turn one. You have to separate these guys and give them some separation because they have absolutely no respect and they just drive over each other.”

The two-time Cup Series champion then went on to slam Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney after having fallen victim to his antics at Michigan. “We see it every week. We see it on ovals. (Ryan) Blaney wanted to be mad last week, and yet he crashed me and he almost crashed the No. 7 (Corey LaJoie) and he’s mad, so it makes no sense. The fact of the matter is – yeah, everybody goes down into turn one, they know you have to be on the inside and you just pile-drive through from the inside and push people off.”

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Qualifying in the 5th position for the upcoming Verizon 200 at The Brickyard, Kyle Busch will be joined by Brodie Kostecki, who will be piloting the #33 Richard Childress Racing Chevy.

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Contrary to popular belief, Brodie Kostecki’s NASCAR arrival was not heralded by Shane van Gisbergen’s Chicago progress. Earlier, the Super Series points leader had revealed that his Indy debut was finalized by Richard Childress almost eight months ago. 

Securing the 11th spot on the starting grid in his first-ever NASCAR outing, Kostecki then opened up about his experience at the RCR camp. In the pre-race presser, Brodie Kostecki said, “It’s been a real experience for myself. I landed here on Friday and have been working closely with everyone from Richard Childress Racing and also with everyone at Chevy as well…Just trying to be a sponge and get up to speed as quickly as possible in the short amount of time I have.” 

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With two Supercar Series champions, Brodie Kostecki and Shane van Gisbergen joining The Brickyard Cup Series race, will the events of Chicago repeat themselves?