The Covid-19 pandemic made its presence felt across sports around the globe, but while most of them have recovered back to normalcy, Kyle Busch believes that NASCAR is still reeling from the effects. On a recent episode of The Pat McAfee Show (who is also a WWE commentator), Rowdy made an appearance and was asked about the changes in his race craft and tactics that he has brought over the years. After Covid and with the Next-Gen, probably every driver in the Cup Series had to make changes to their game plan.

Kyle Busch isn’t a fan of shorter practice sessions

One of the biggest changes that was made to the Cup Series race weekends during the pandemic was the practice sessions. Sessions that used to last for hours, helping teams gather valuable data and fine-tuning their car, were reduced to just 20 minutes. Because there’s not much teams can adjust in their cars after just 20 minutes of running, it seems like Rowdy has an issue with that aspect of the racing.

“The last 3 or 4 years, I would say, ever since Covid, they’ve really cut out practice. So when we get to a race track, we go out on the speedway for 20 minutes of practice and then we qualify and then we go right into the race. Years prior, before the Covid era, it always was like 2 or 3 hours of practice that you would have for a given weekend so a lot more time to fine-tune the car, work on the car. Pretty much now when you show up to the track, you get in, you get a little bit and there’s not a whole lot you can adjust on the car with the rules,” the former Cup Series champion said.

Maturity was also one of the things he spoke about as well as he reminisced about the good ol’ days when Kyle Busch would go all Rowdy without a care in the world. After all, his aggressive nature is what made him famous in the first place.

Rowdy speaks about his ‘rowdy’ days on WWE star’s show

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As a young driver, you always want to make your mark early, and boy, Kyle Busch was hell-bent on making his mark during the 2000s. He made his debut in the Cup Series with Hendrick Motorsports where he was teammates with some of the greatest drivers of all time, like Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson. Then, when he made the move to Joe Gibbs Racing, there was probably a lot of pressure on him to make it work, no matter what.

“I would say when you’re young and you’re coming in, you wanna do nothing but light the world on fire. You want to prove and show everybody who you are and that you should be there. I tore up a few things in my earlier days, I crashed a little bit trying to carry that speed and not being able to harness it and perfect it to the level of what some of these other guys do when you’re jumping into the sport but over time, being able to get better, winning 60-something races and 2 championships and all that,” he said.

No matter his beginnings, Kyle Busch is one of the cleanest and most consistent racers in the NASCAR Cup Series today. The only thing that’s missing from his 2024 season so far is a win and fans would love to see that happen soon.