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NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin on death of Kyle Busch 72%

5/22/2026, 12:15:47 PM

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BS Summary: This video contains 26 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Availability Heuristic, and Appeal to Emotion, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 11.1% saturation with 98 hits. Analysis detected 631 faulty-reasoning hits from 879 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 64.6% and a BS Rank of 72% (5,812 of 20,246 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 71.30% of the video peer group.

Joining us now is NASCAR great Denny 
Hamlin. Denny, thank you for joining us. 
It's nice to talk to you, but 
unfortunately under these circumstances, 
not the best, but 
you posted on Instagram, my friend, that 
we lost our Kobe Bryant. Today we mourn, 
forever we remember. Rest in peace, 
Kyle. Can you tell us what he meant to 
the sport? 
I mean, I just know that um 
as a race fan, uh every race that uh 
he was in was more exciting to watch 
than the ones that uh he wasn't. So, 
just simply put, he just uh 
kept our fans entertained. Uh he kept 
our media members on their toes at all 
times, and um just as a competitor, I 
can tell you 
uh there's no way that I would have the 
wins that I have had I not had Kyle 
Busch as a teammate to push me to be 
better. 
And speaking of wins, Kyle is one of the 
all-time greatest drivers, but you're 
right behind him on the list for 
all-time NASCAR Cup Series wins. Could 
you tell us what made him so good on the 
track? 
Well, I mean 
he just 
found speed in ways that you just 
couldn't imagine. I mean, I drove the 
same race cars as him. I couldn't go as 
fast as him. 
Uh and and so, he just I remember when 
he came to Joe Gibbs Racing 
um 
you know, in in kind of the mid-2000s, 
it just 
it just changed 
how you got speed out of a race car. His 
his race craft was better than the rest. 
Uh he knew how to put his car in 
positions to make passes that just 
seemed physically impossible. So, it 
just um 
yeah, again, pushing all of us to be 
way, way better 
um is my main takeaway from being 
teammates with him. Yeah, yeah, you two, 
you were long-time teammates, but you 
also clashed with him at times because 
he was known as a hothead. But uh he 
came a long way in his career. Can you 
Can you tell us about his evolution as a 
driver and as a man? 
Uh it's just the maturity is 
really 
a lot of it, you know, he met Samantha. 
They had some kids together, which is 
fantastic. And that's the most 
heartbreaking part about this, right? Is 
is, you know, he's been so invested in 
his son's future 
and career that surely will be ahead of 
them. 
Um 
but, you know, the guy 
wasn't always the most mature when I was 
teammates with him. He was only a few 
years younger, but man, it just seemed 
like he was just so brash and he wasn't 
for everyone when it came to like his 
off-track personality. What was for 
everyone was his talent behind the 
wheel. And that's why everyone wanted 
him. And so, 
I just know that he really went through 
a time 
right around when he was 30 years old 
where it was like, man, he started this 
family and 
it just changed, just like all of us do 
that that have kids 
one day. And so, it definitely 
changed those peaks and valleys of his 
emotions, it seemed like. And you had a 
more steady Kyle Busch and and really 
the best Kyle Busch. 
And so, over these last 10 years or so, 
11 years 
since he had his first kid, 
you just um 
you saw the evolution of him and he 
became a man and he became a great 
teammate and, you know, 
RCR, 
that poor organization had to go through 
the death of Dale Earnhardt and now Kyle 
Busch and 
just can't imagine being in the in the 
position that his family and his race 
team are in. Yeah, I can't either. And 
it seemed like Kyle was just his 
authentic self. He didn't hold back for 
anything or anyone else. And um do you 
have any favorite memories of Kyle you 
want to share with us? 
I just my first memory with him and my 
favorite is 
we were at a test. He was at my very 
first time he was my teammate. Um and he 
said he he walked over to my stall and 
he says, 
"We're going to see how good you really 
are." 
And I said, "All right." He was coming 
over from Hendrick Motorsports. And um 
and at that time we were going to be 
testing uh with the same race team. And 
we just kept getting in the car. He 
would go P1. I'd up him. I'd I'd make a 
quicker lap. He'd go out. He'd make a 
quicker lap. And we just kept going like 
three or four times uh overtaking each 
other. And I knew right then I was like, 
"Okay, this guy's going to push me 
pretty hard to to get the best out of 
me." And um there's no doubt, you know, 
one of my strengths right now is mile 
and a half race tracks. It's because of 
Kyle Busch. 
I got to watch him and study him. He was 
just a master at getting speed out of 
race cars 
on those types of race tracks. 
And um 
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