Steven Taranto
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@NASCAR multimedia storyteller (fmr. CBS Sports) Somewhat professional Internet poster. Hardcore @Giants fan. NY ➡️ NC ➡️ TN. Elon University '15 ✝️
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Kyle Larson shared that the Busch family expressed their appreciation for the "Tiny Kyle" namerail in last week's Coke 600, and also that it got a good laugh out of Brexton. His wife Katelyn has been keeping in contact with Samantha Busch who shared that with them. Kyle said that he put plans in place last Saturday to put Tiny Kyle - what Kyle called him and also what Brexton calls him - on his namerail as others started putting Kyle's name or Rowdy on theirs. "I thought with Kyle calling me something different, I thought it would be a cool tribute to put 'Tiny Kyle' on there."
Steven Taranto700,924 次观看 • 4 天前
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. knew full well he couldn't take his Kyle Busch tribute scheme and run 30th with it. Said it was cool to put it in the Top 5 and credited crew chief Mike Kelley with the call to take tires and go on offense. He also had a laugh with Carson Hocevar after Hocevar gave him a shout midway through this scrum. "Hey! Career night!" - which is kind of nice given their run-in here last year. Ricky wasn't sure what happened in the sequence of events during green flag pit stops where Brad Keselowski had to take evasive action to avoid him as he was slowing to come pit. Said he'll have to look at the replay.
Steven Taranto300,377 次观看 • 3 天前
Asked Chase Elliott if he has considered recusing himself from the Most Popular Driver Award voting to allow Kyle Busch that honor, as his father Bill did when Dale Earnhardt died in 2001. "I would be in extreme favor of Kyle winning the vote. I think that he's a guy that certainly poured a lot of his life into this sport. Although he might've been getting boos a lot of weeks, he also had a lot of fans, and a lot of really passionate fans. "I really haven't processed all of that, I guess, to get to that point. But I would certainly be in favor of him winning and whatever it took. Yeah, I think it would be really deserving for him to have that honor."
Steven Taranto1,087,101 次观看 • 12 天前
Asked multiple drivers in the media bullpen what it was like to have a day off Monday and then going back to work Tuesday to start a "normal" week. There was very little time between losing Kyle Busch and the start of Coke 600 weekend. Brad Keselowski: "I think most of the industry takes (Memorial Day) off, and usually it's just a break after running 600 miles. But it definitely had a different feel to it this year than others of more than just a physical rest, but a mental rest as well." Kyle Larson: "Showing our support to the Busch family on pit road before the race and getting to see them - helped me anyways sort of, I don't know, find some peace in it all. Just to see their faces and hug them and all that kind of helped me move forward. "I felt fine getting in the racecar and just getting back to work. Obviously you don't forget about them or anything like that, but you kind of have to heal and go." Todd Gilliland: "I thought all the tributes, all that stuff was very fitting last week, and I'm sure it'll continue on throughout really the rest of the year. That's a thing, right? You don't really know when it stops and just how, really, back to normal does it ever get." Tyler Reddick, who celebrated his son Rookie's first birthday on Monday: "For everything that happened over the weekend with the Busch family, Monday comes around, it's my son's first birthday and everything he's been through - when you're sitting still like that, a lot's on your mind. "While it was nice to take a step back and just chill, at the same time all these thoughts do run through your head. A lot of things come to mind."
Steven Taranto261,167 次观看 • 4 天前
Austin Dillon spoke for about 10 minutes about the past week at Richard Childress Racing and the company's reaction to the death of Kyle Busch. >Dillon called this "one of the toughest weeks of RCR's history." Says "some of the nicest things that could be done were done" over the last week and mentioned what good care NASCAR & the garage area took of them. >Dillon says the message this past week has been "ride for the brand". Believes Kyle would've wanted the team to do what they could and work as hard as possible to get back to Victory Lane. Also touched upon the conversation that Richard Childress and Dale Earnhardt once had about what they would do if one of them died before their time. >Dillon says the decision to who will drive Busch's car (now the No. 33) moving forward will be made over time. That said, he's excited for Austin Hill, who he called a "grizzly bear" and a "dawg" and said he's qualified >Dillon says this has been "very hard" for Richard Childress and the situation has worn on him, but he also said his grandfather is a very resilient person. Childress and Austin's father Mike Dillon were at the hospital with Kyle, while Austin was at the shop and trying to keep the team updated on what was going on. >Dillon said the letter he wrote to Kyle was written once he got home and felt like it was the biggest reason he could go forward. "It was from the heart, and it's how I felt about Kyle. And it's gonna hurt for a long time, but I know the character he was, he'd want us to go kick butt." >RCR had a company-wide meeting this week in which team president Mike Verlander spoke to the entire team, which Dillon said was "beautiful" and commended the way he's gone through this. Motor Racing Outreach's Nick Terry then spoke (making comments that Dillon said were "very touching") before Dillon finished things off, before bringing things back to "hey, let's go out there and do what we can to make him proud." >When asked about what he takes from the way his grandfather handled Dale Earnhardt's death in 2001, Dillon mentioned he was young at the time and didn't quite understand things as much. Going through it now, he mentioned the family and brotherhood aspect of RCR as well as how a lot of employees also went through Earnhardt's death. "Hopefully this time around, we can do the same thing that they did the last time around." >When asked how he deals with this through his faith, Dillon cited Proverbs 3:5. "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding." He had also cited this part of the Bible in his letter to Kyle >Dillon believes crew chief Andy Street "is the guy for the job" when it comes to leading the 8/33 team through the loss of their driver. Says Street is tough, that "he was there through everything" with Kyle Busch and had to witness a lot of things over the past week, and has a lot of support within the organization.
Steven Taranto240,707 次观看 • 5 天前
Carson Hocevar shared that Tuesday at the Spire Motorsports shop began with a group photo around Kyle Busch's winning truck from Dover. Said it was "heavy for everybody" and mentioned how not everyone had gotten to do the win ceremony to celebrate Busch's Dover win. "You just have the highest of highs and lowest of lows, and racers still go on and race and do everything. And that's what Kyle would've wanted. "It was heavy for everybody, but they were at least talking in his honor and doing great speeches. But you weren't just doing the speeches because of that - you were doing the speeches because of his win and hanging up banners and telling stories of the KBM days, and doing it in the KBM shop."
Steven Taranto167,000 次观看 • 4 天前
Because I felt it was at least necessary to ask, I asked NASCAR CEO Steve O'Donnell if there was any consideration to postponing the Coca-Cola 600 due to Kyle Busch's death. "I think it's a fair question, but when you look at what minimal conversations did take place between RCR, ourselves, family, it was - Kyle Busch would probably be pretty pissed off if we didn't race. So we're gonna honor his memory and make sure people know what he was all about."
Steven Taranto346,421 次观看 • 13 天前
Something that makes Daniel Suarez a fitting winner to the first race after Kyle Busch's passing: In Mexican culture, there is great reverence for the deceased. They are very family-oriented people, and Suarez gets to have his family with him each Coke 600 week. "Kyle, he wasn't my family. But he was someone that gave me a hand when I needed it most. And it wasn't just a hand. It was a hand of a legend, it was a hand of somebody with so much experience. So for that I will be forever grateful. Forever grateful. "Kyle was one of the few drivers out there that I never had an issue with. We always got along amazing. One time he got in trouble in Cancun, he called me, Samantha called me. I mean, some of you guys know what happened there. And then after the race in Mexico City, we partied together, he came to my party. "I just love the guy. He was an amazing person. And for me, one of my goals this weekend is for people to understand these stories of him. Because a lot of people didn't know who he was as a person. Many people, fans, they knew him as a racing driver. "But the person, the person that is behind the firesuit, behind that helmet - that's what counts the most. That family man. Every time that you talk to Kyle about Brexton, his eyes light up. He was a family man. And because of that, this race is so special. All the combination of these things. "And I want to make sure that the focus and the most important thing about this victory is not Spire Motorsports, it's not Daniel Suarez - it's Kyle Busch. Because he was a very, very important piece for me to be here and for Spire Motorsports to be where it is right now."
Steven Taranto245,809 次观看 • 10 天前
