NASCAR CUP SERIES: XFINITY 500

October 31, 2021

Kyle Busch

Pit Lane

An Interview with:

Q. Kyle, you finished the day second. A strong run. Looked almost impossible most of the day. You'll be three points short today.

KYLE BUSCH: We just missed last week. That's where we lost all the ground. Could have come in here with 15 more points, we would have been fine on the cut. Just wasn't it. Wasn't meant to be. Obviously it was Truex's day. We had a Hail Mary opportunity there at the end. Just didn't materialize.

All in all, just proud of the effort for sure. We slung everything and anything at this thing today, couldn't really make it come alive. Great effort. That was there for sure. We just got to get better, everybody included, the whole team, in order to be able to go race with the best and race for a championship. We're not going to do that this year.

Q. How will you look back on this season not being able to race for the championship next week?

KYLE BUSCH: Anytime you go into a season with Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing, this 18, M&M's team, myself, you expect to be Championship 4, in contention, eligible. Anything other than that is a failure. Guess you get an F.