Kyle Busch Says How Long He Plans to Drive in NASCAR

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• Kyle Busch will be a featured guest on Thursday night’s Cars and Culture with Jason Stein on SiriusXM Business Radio (Channel 132 at July 20 at 6 p.m. ET).

• In the pre-taped interview, the Busch said he envisions a plan where he will retire from the Cup series.

• His master plan would be to oversee young son Brexton’s budding NASCAR career, racing in a Camping World Truck in about eight years from now.

LeBron James isn’t the only athlete who is postponing retirement so he can fulfill a dream of competing with one of his sons. The 38-year-old James announced last week at the ESPY Awards that he will postpone retirement until he can play professionally with his eldest son, 18-year-old Bronny.

Borrowing a page from LeBron’s playbook, NASCAR Cup star Kyle Busch just turned 38 on May 2. But don’t expect him to retire for at least another decade or so. The reason: he wants to race in NASCAR with his only son, Brexton, who just turned 8 years old on May 18.

Kyle Busch will be a featured guest on Thursday night’s Cars and Culture with Jason Stein on SiriusXM Business Radio (Channel 132 at July 20 at 6 p.m. ET). In the pre-taped interview, the elder Busch said he envisions a plan where he will retire from the Cup series, and then oversee Brexton’s budding NASCAR career, racing in a Camping World Truck in about eight years from now.

Kyle added that Brexton would likely compete in short track Truck events while he was 16 and 17 years old, while Kyle would compete in the bigger and longer tracks. And even though he didn’t say it on the show, it’s pretty clear that Busch & Son would drive for Kyle’s own race team, Kyle Busch Racing.

And then, when Brexton turns 18, he would be put into a truck full-time while dear old dad watches him—and potentially would race against his offspring, much like LeBron wants to do with Bronny, who turns 19 on Oct. 6 and will likely be spending his last season of playing hoops at Southern Cal later this year and into 2024.

“I would say in a perfect world—I've kind of dreamt this up a little bit—in a perfect world, I would retire from Cup racing when Brexton is 15 years old,” Kyle Busch said, adding he would “run a full truck series season to see if I can win a truck series championship,” getting his son involved, and then fully retiring around 49 or 50-years-old.