What does a side hustle do for you? One is that it gives you a break from your usual day job. Two, it serves as a refreshment. SRX is almost like a side hustle for racers like Kyle Busch, who has a day job at NASCAR. During the pre-race interview at Michigan, Kyle Busch spoke about what SRX meant to him and how he thinks they could improve for good.

Matt Weaver from Sportsnaut asked Busch about the future of Tony Stewart‘s Superstar Racing Experience.

Kyle Busch races in the SRX series for fun

Busch is content about the fact that the SRX series is running on short tracks that are about half a mile or less. He even reflected on the abundance of good short tracks in the USA, and with just 12 cars running on it at moderate speed, the Berlin SRX race winner liked it was a perfect racing experience.

Kyle Busch gave a shout-out to the junior crew members, who were constantly working with the officials to get the cars ready for the race. However, he joked about how laid back the race was in Berlin and said, “Unfortunately, Berlin was a decent race. We’re about the only work they really got to do is clean out the burnout rubber from my car this week.”

For the Richard Childress Racing driver, SRX is a less important job than the one he has over the weekends. He admitted, “With SRX, it’s kind of light-hearted, so it’s fun, and it’s kind of neat that they do that. There’s no money on the line, there’s no points on the line, none of that stuff, so obviously not quite as serious as our Sunday job.”

SRX never started out to pose a threat to NASCAR or challenge its status quo. It aimed to promote the diversity and inclusiveness that this sport has to offer. Busch appreciates the efforts that go into each race, but he has some pointers for the officials as well.

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Rowdy Busch believes that the nature of the contact that is present in NASCAR should show up in SRX Series races as well. Although he does not promote dirty driving, he does encourage hard racing. He opined that twelve cars are too little for a race, and the least SRX should have is 16 cars running each race.

He exclaimed, “It’d be cool to see more cars. I think it’s okay when you have some calamity and some crashes and stuff like that as long as everybody is kind of keeping safe.”

“Short tracks so we’re not going 180 mph, we’re going 100, 120 maybe, so it would be really fun to watch all those cars go around,” he added.

While giving his ideas about how safe the SRX was for the drivers, the 2009 Xfinity Series champion acknowledged, “

(David)Stremme had a throttle stick in one of the test cars there the other day and he wailed the wall. He was okay and (Tony)Kanaan destroyed the fence too at Stafford so, the cars do have some good safety aspects.”

Among other pros, SRX has a simple, season-long points battle and a very simple set of rules. However, there are a few cons as well. For example, there is no teamwork. There is no need for strategic innovations either. What do you think SRX could do to reach the heights of popularity that it set off to achieve?

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