Overheard In The NASCAR Garage: Kyle Busch To Start Two New Race Teams

The on-again off-again possibility of Kyle Busch Motorsports (KBM) expanding its operations to include a new truck team seem to be back on again according to a fairly reliable source—his brother Kurt.

In late February, Kyle "Rowdy" Busch had expressed some interest in moving the shop he owns into NASCAR's Camping World Truck Series. 

But according to an article published online on March 6th by Mike Mulhern, a NASCAR reporter for the Winston-Salem Journal, Busch had put his truck ownership plans on hold.

"I need a better business model," Busch said. "We spent way too much money on our Late Model team last year, and we need to straighten that out."

"To start up a Truck team would require at least $8 million, and to run it for year would cost another $3 million. That's an $11 million investment right off the bat."

"I need to start working on a retirement plan first," Busch said.

That plan, however, may have changed. While waiting through the rain delay before Sprint Cup practice in Martinsville was canceled Saturday, brother Kurt "spilled the beans" about what's on the horizon for KBM.

While being interviewed by Matt Yocum on SPEED in the garage area, the brothers were asked what the hottest topic between them was, as many others in the garage were consumed with talking about hot dogs and eating competitions.

Kurt answered, "It's R/C cars right now. There's these new stadium trucks out, so it's like the old Mickey Thompson days."

"I was trying to set a budget with him [Kyle] on what we think we're going to spend but he's got a bunch of sponsors lined up so I had to call all my old buddies so it's on."

When asked where they were going to build a track, Kurt answered, "He [Kyle] is building a brand new race shop...he's going to get a truck team put together. We'll just push the trucks outside and put the track inside."

Kyle responded, "I think you just announced it for me now though."

Kurt immediately tried deflecting his slip of the tongue, "No, no. We've got priorities with R/C cars right now."

Yocum followed up with some questions to Kyle about how he's got a lot going on, including some cool things coming up in the near future.

Kyle hesitated for a long moment, then answered, "Yeah the [long pause] the stuff going on now is the cool stuff, really, the R/C stuff." 

"Team Associated has been with us since the beginning, since we always raced R/C cars," Kyle continued. "So I called up a guy that I know there and was like 'Hey man what you got' so they sent us some stuff."

"So myself and Scott Speed we're starting a team. If Kurt wants to join in on it he's more than welcome to. It's Team BS, you know, all BS all the time. We'll see how it goes—just something to have some fun with on Wednesday nights in Charlotte."