Kyle Busch doesn’t believe any full-time Cup Series driver will attempt to claim the $100,000 bounty placed on him last week by Kevin Harvick and Marcus Lemonis.
Harvick and Lemonis, the CEO of Truck Series sponsor Gander RV & Outdoors, said they’d award that bounty to any full-time Cup Series driver who is able to beat Busch in any of his four remaining Truck Series starts this year.
Busch, who has won the last seven Truck races he’s entered, sees the challenge as a losing investment, especially if someone attempted it in one of Kyle Busch Motorsports’ Toyotas.
Thursday on the Barstool Sports’ “Rubbin’ is Racing” podcast, Busch said it costs $140,000 to rent one of his Trucks for a race.
“Right off the bat (it’s a losing proposition),” Busch said. “It’s not going to happen. Nobody is going to pay the 140 grand to rent a truck, whether it’s from me or from somebody else. (Show co-host Clint) Bowyer didn’t tell you the fact he can’t even rent a truck from me because I’m a Toyota team and he drives for a Ford team. So he has to go find a Ford truck in order to drive. So there’s those complications that fit into all of this, too.”
Denny Hamlin, Busch’s teammate at Joe Gibbs Racing, expressed his interest in the bounty, as well Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Dillon, who said he was “working on” a deal.
After his win last Friday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Busch’s four remaining Truck Series starts are:
March 14 at Atlanta Motor Speedway
March 20 at Homestead-Miami Speedway
March 27 at Texas Motor Speedway
May 30 at Kansas Speedway.
If no one beats Busch, the bounty will go to the Bundle of Joy Fund, the organization founded by Kyle and Samantha Busch that helps couples who require fertility treatments to conceive.
.@KyleBusch explains why the logistics behind the Truck Series bounty that @KevinHarvick proposed, just don't make any sense. pic.twitter.com/SDxav1dyH6
— Rubbin is Racing (@rubbinisracing) February 27, 2020
I was and it is a huge compliment form KH. But I don’t think the “all in good fairness” comment form Kevin came til after I said press comments. All in good fun… I’m good w it! 🏁 https://t.co/4BGj2q7ElI
— Kyle Busch (@KyleBusch) February 28, 2020
