The first domino for Kyle Busch has officially fallen.
The NASCAR Cup Series driver and future Hall of Famer announced at a news conference on Tuesday morning that he was ending his 15-year run with Joe Gibbs Racing and was moving on with Richard Childress Racing for the 2023 season. He will be driving the No. 8 car.
“It’s been 15 years since I’ve had to make a decision quite like this, but 15 years ago, it was just me,” Busch told media on Tuesday afternoon, in the lobby of the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Uptown Charlotte. “You know, I didn’t have a family. I didn’t have a wife and a son and a daughter and a race team around me that I had to worry about. It was just what I needed to do. So this process took a lot longer than I expected it to.
