Kyle Busch refuses to comment on Ricky Stenhouse Jr. fight ahead of Xfinity race at Charlotte

“I’m ready for today. Let’s go,” Busch told Hocevar, unwilling to comment any further on the Stenhouse Jr. situation.

Alas, Busch feels he said all he needed to say earlier this week, when he said Wednesday he felt he “went into an ambush blind” leading up to the fight between he and Stenhouse Jr.

“You know to me, it’s just Lap 1. The water is not even hot. The tires aren’t even hot,” Busch told Charlie Marlow of The Kenny Wallace Show. “You’re kind of slipping a little bit but yeah, I ran wide into Turn 1. Gave an opening to the middle. He took it. I gave room on the exit to make sure we didn’t touch, so I touched the fence a little bit. I was touching the fence, and he still ran into me and brushed off on my left front corner. 

“So, it was inevitable that I was going to get put in the fence anyways. I wasn’t too pleased about that and did come back and retaliate. It showed my displeasure of that. As one guy once said, I meant to rattle his cage and spin them out didn’t mean for him to overcorrect and stuff in the fence but that’s sort of what happens sometimes.

“And then afterwards obviously, trying to have some casual words. I had no idea his comments of hold my watch or you know, hey, if you want to see something afterwards, hang out until afterwards. Nobody told me. So, I felt like I went into an ambush blind with him and his team and having an idea that they were all kind of set up in different areas. But tried to hold my own the best I could fighting off five different guys and came out of there with no black eyes. So, you know, I guess we’ll see how that progresses going forward and what we do, you know, heading on into the next few weeks.”

Time will tell if there are any more altercations between the two moving forward, but it’s evident Kyle Busch is all but done with the Ricky Stenhouse Jr. situation at the moment.