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#4 NASCAR comments on controversial Kyle Busch call at Richmond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_C_hs-WpYc

Kyle Busch has struggled so far in the  2022 NASCAR Cup Series season, and he remains a sore subject in the Las Vegas sports community after the April 3 race at Richmond. The Las Vegas native was undone by a penalty on lap 345 because he had tape on his car's grille. Unfortunately, NASCAR has a new rule that bans the use of tape on the car's grille to control temperatures.

The funny part, though, is that Busch's team was apparently trying to put the tape on the brake duct but got it on the grille by mistake. NASCAR officials even admitted during an interview last week that if Busch's team had caught it sooner, they wouldn't have penalized him for it. The Las Vegas sports icon eventually finished 9th after some pretty slick driving.

"We go back, found footage, found what we needed," NASCAR's Managing Director Brad Moran said during an interview. "Yes, the team actually put it on... Unfortunate [because] they had a couple stops where they could have pulled it off, and we probably wouldn't be talking about it today, but that didn't happen.