NASCAR CEO Steve O’Donnell has made his first public comments since the death of Cup Series driver Kyle Busch on Thursday, May 21.
“Kyle Busch, to me, is an American badass,” he told reporters. “Behind the wheel, [he was] who you want to be, and I think when you look back at all those things, that’s part of being a race car driver.”
He added, “People with passion and people who care about the sport are the ones you need to listen to. And he was always that guy.”
O’Donnell, 57, also told fans that right now, he is “one of them.”
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