RCR will no longer use Kyle Busch’s No. 8, p...

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Richard Childress Racing has made the choice to alter the quantity on the aspect of what was alleged to be Kyle Busch’s 2026 Coca-Cola 600 entry.

The 41-year-old NASCAR legend died suddenly on Thursday, and the shock and grief that has adopted is overwhelming.

RCR introduced that Austin Hill will drive the entry meant for Busch on this weekend’s race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, however it will not be the No. 8 Chevrolet. The staff will make the most of the No. 33, and the No. 8 won’t return to the monitor … until Kyle’s at the moment 11-year-old son Brexton Busch someday needs to make use of it.

Busch’s final three Cup Series wins came with the No. 8, all during the 2023 season.

“Richard Childress Racing has elected to droop use of the No. 8 and can run the No. 33 at Charlotte Motor Speedway and past,” mentioned the staff in a press release. “Kyle Busch was instrumental within the design of RCR’s stylized No. 8 and it has turn out to be synonymous with Kyle and an essential image for his followers and the NASCAR business. Nobody can carry it ahead to the extent that he did. The No. 8 is reserved and prepared for Brexton Busch when he is able to go NASCAR racing.”

That is reminiscent of what RCR did following the tragic dying of Dale Earnhardt within the 2001 Daytona 500. The No. 3 Earnhardt made well-known was shelved, changed by the No. 29 pushed by Kevin Harvick. The No. 3 solely returned to Cup Sequence competitors over a decade later, with Childress’ grandson Austin, because the quantity was initially related to the Childress household earlier than Earnhardt made it iconic.

The quantity Busch used for almost all of his profession was the No. 18, which Joe Gibbs Racing has not used since he left the staff after the 2022 season.