Kyle Busch is the Maxim magazine of NASCAR. A big talker; a showy peacock prancing and preening as one claiming to be the real deal, a rough ‘n tumble hardcore rebel. Yet when it comes time to actually show something, like Maxim’s photo shoots he reveals nothing.
Because he has nothing.
Busch’s superbrat act reached new heights (or depths) this evening at Nashville, when after wafflestomping the field en route to yet another Nationwide win greeted with a resounding round of yawns he decided smashing the custom-painted guitar presented as a trophy would be just the thing.
Ah, but afterwards he apologized, or so we’re told, to Sam Bass who custom paints the guitar trophy, offering to buy two of them. Because after all nothing makes everything all better like a check, now does it.
It also blows the cover off your badass act.
If you’re really a rebel, you don’t apologize. You defy. You say you’re proud of what you’ve done, you don’t care what anyone — anyone — thinks, and you’re not backing down for anyone or anything. You don’t skulk around afterwards trying to undo what you’ve done like a whipped puppy seeking to atone for the mess you left on the rug.
Which is precisely what Busch has done.
He’s shown his act for what it is: an act. And a weak one at that. Kyle Busch is a pseudo porn star who runs and hides when it’s action time.
What a loser of a race winner.
I by no means ever defend Kyle Busch. But I did on this on.
And I am by no means a Kyle Busch fan…exact opposite really.
But I keep reading that he apoliged for smashing the guitar. I have not seen one quote with him apologizing. Just stating that he was buying one for him and one for his crew chief.
Shannon Spake reported the apology on Twitter. Haven’t seen it mentioned elsewhere.
Stay classy, Kyle.
I’m not a fan of Shrub but I agree with you about the rebel thing. If you’re going to break a trophy that other drivers would worship and wax every single day, at least go ahead and not apologize (if you’re trying to go for the rebel thing anyway.) But I haven’t heard a public apology. I honestly think he does this stuff to bring publicity to himself. A good example of how many hits he’s given to Jr. Most drivers know that you do NOT say anything bad about the boy wonder (Matt Kenseth mentioned that on David Letterman in Feb.) But Shrub has. Jeff Gordon thinks it’s a publicity stunt, I think so too.
Kyle probably realised someone might make a big deal of him “being disrespectful” and wanted to take it up with Sam Bass first.
Lighten up, people. It was a rock n roll thing to do and if anyone else had done it, I doubt anyone would have said the first word about it.
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