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Austin Hill is scheduled to replace Busch, a two-time Cup Series
champion, in the driver’s seat at Charlotte Motor Speedway for
NASCAR's longest race of the season.
Busch's son, Brexton, is already known for his racing exploits,
having won the Tulsa Shootout Jr. Sprint Championship to earn
his first career Golden Driller last year.
“Kyle Busch was instrumental in the design of RCR’s stylized No.
8 and it has become synonymous with Kyle and an important symbol
for his fans and the NASCAR industry,” RCR said in a statement.
“No one can carry it forward to the level that he did. The No. 8
is reserved and ready for Brexton Busch when he is ready to go
NASCAR racing.”
Brexton, a third-generation Busch driver, began his racing
career in 2020 at 5 years old in the Beginner Box Stock division
at Millbridge Speedway, a 1/6-mile dirt track in Salisbury,
North Carolina, according to his website. He picked up his first
victory at Mountain Creek Speedway a month later and has built
on his racing resume since.
He won 48 races, earned 126 top-10s and 107 top-5’s in multiple
styles of race cars in 2024.
In 2001, when Dale Earnhardt was killed in a crash at the
Daytona 500, RCR changed car numbers from the black No. 3 to the
white No. 29. The No. 3 eventually returned for the 2014 season
when owner Richard Childress' grandson Austin Dillon took over
as the driver.
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