This weekend the father-son duo of Kyle and Brexton Busch are at the Tulsa Shootout racing on the dirt with the nation’s best. Yesterday, the NASCAR champion got into a wreck during his heat race in the Non-Winged Stock division.
However, that isn’t all of the news from the Busch family. The Tulsa Shootout has been a new thing in recent years for Rowdy and his son. With Brexton coming up in racing, his dad is trying to get him all of the experience possible.
With dirt racing, Kyle Busch hopes his son will learn car control, not unlike Christopher Bell and Kyle Larson. There is one thing that Brexton, AKA BRex, likely won’t race, at least as a kid – Midget cars.
Right now, he’s going through the Junior Sprints. Soon, he’ll go up to Micros. Those Midget cars are a no-go as far as Samantha Busch is concerned.
“Yeah, probably get to micros, maybe midgets,” Brexton said in an interview with FloRacing. “My mom doesn’t want me to get into midgets, though.”
When it was time for dad Kyle Busch to speak up, he echoed the sentiment. Mom does not want Brexton in those cars. But, dad might let him.
“Exactly. Mom would not like the midget class. But we’ll give it a whirl one day, we’ll see how that goes,” Busch said. “See what we like doing throughout the micros.”