Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour presented by NASCAR on FOX - Pit Stop: Kevin Harvick breaks down fight between Kyle Busch, Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

Episode Date: May 24, 2024

Join NASCAR legend Kevin Harvick alongside friends and analysts Kaitlyn Vincie and Mamba Smith on the latest episode of “Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour” presented by NASCAR on FOX as Kevin breaks down the fight between Ricky Stenhouse Jr and Kyle Busch at the All-Star Race in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Let's roll the first video here of the fight. And we got Ricky. So this is Ricky and Kyle talking already. Now, Ricky really didn't do anything wrong. This was a real racing deal. I'm sorry. There's a bunch. You can, we don't have audio right now, but you can hear the crack of that.

So he's over here. And at this point, Ricky's like, get my dad, get my dad. So Ricky Stenhouse, Senior is over and has Kyle Bush hemmed up over here. Right? and they were kind of getting after it. Kyle is also getting held by three people at once. Yeah. Which is pretty impressive.

Right. Honestly, Ricky's dad never threw a punch. No. I think he was just trying to help break it up. Yeah. Kyle did punch him in the face one time. Big Country, he's the big guy that was cleaning everybody out. He was my gas man for a long time.

He is a big man. Listen, Big Country. Big Country is my dude. So Big Country, sorry. I called you Jason White because I was so excited to get the tweet out. It's Justin White for everybody. for everybody. So in that video, you see Big Country fall over. So he

who initially fell with Ricky and the NASCAR Security Guard. So that's a count of two. Then he gets back up, comes over to find Kyle. He then chucks two more people, one of them being his own guy. So he's up to four. And then there's another guy on the back of the pit gate on the tailgate that he's chucking again. So that's five and he thought he wanted some more. And I think

you see, someone else took a thought of stepping on the tailgate and then was like, never mind. Yeah. I think I'm okay here. We've got another angle here. Yeah. Is Ricky wearing swim trunks?

I couldn't tell what. I'm not sure that he planned his attire out for the fight, but it definitely is a topic of conversation. And, you know, I think that's a much better view of the shot. And then you see a big country just clear out the back. And Ricky's dad was trying to do the same right here. And Kyle's still swinging. But yeah, it wound up being, it wound up being a melee down there.

How premeditated you? Because Ricky did those interviews, and he pretty much said, right, you know, once he was eliminated from the race, that he was going to do something. So it's almost like once he said that, he's kind of need to stick by it, right, per se. And he had a long time to think about it and you're trapped in there because you can't get out of the racetrack. So, I mean, was it just like coming to a head at that point or what?

I think there were, it sounds to me like there were a lot of things that were coming to a head at this particular point. I don't think this is the first incident. Like there's no way that this is the first instance that this all happened. I think when I go back and watch the video, I honestly have no idea what Kyle Bush is mad at. They came up off a turn two, Kyle. I mean, he drove through a hole.

Ricky drove through a hole that was big enough to drive a bus through. And, you know, we put them three wide. And Kyle bounced off the fence and bounced into the side of Ricky and they made contact. But right here, you could see that Kyle had lost. is mine and was angry and drove into into turns one and two right here and was not letting off until he wrecked him. So I think there's a lot of things here. I think there's something that between Ricky and Kyle that Ricky was obviously frustrated about. Kyle obviously didn't like the position that Ricky put him in off of turn two right there. And maybe there's there's

obviously something that Kyle didn't like about that and probably felt like he was in that position before and felt like this was the night where it all didn't matter. I'm retaliating tonight. But I think I think Kyle is also frustrated with his situation and everything he has going on currently. I think that we finally have seen the trigger that pushed Kyle over the edge with the performance of what they've been doing on the racetrack and the things that have been happening. So you can tell that he's frustrated and not happy. And I don't know any other way to put that. And when you look at Stenhouse and his situation with how he, the things that he said and where he was with Kyle Bush, he just felt like it was time to be done with it. And I think they both took the opportunity of the All-Star race to settle those things up.

Yeah, he was very direct about how he felt. He, like, thought about it, had time, then went back, knew what he said, wanted to say to him. And he was like, you could tell he's like, he's not, this isn't. getting through to him. I'm just going to do it. Right. It was like, he's like, I'm sick of this conversation. Yeah. And I think you're at that point, right? Like, I mean, you look at it now and and those things, you know, you're obviously the adrenaline and things that, that happened during those moments or, you know, it all happens pretty fast. And I think that if I was going to do it, I think if you're going to walk up, I think he should have just decked him right up, right,

right in the walk up. Right in the initial coming up. Right in a walkup. So someone asked me like, well, it's kind of a sucker. It would have been a harder shot. I don't know, really, right? He didn't see it. What do you want me to say? Was he going to hit him anyway? We're going to fight now? Like, no. Was he going to hit him anyway? Like, if that conversation goes well.

I don't think so. I think of the conversation, if Kyle would have said like, hey, man, like, I thought, like, I thought something else happened. I think he probably doesn't. But Kyle was like, I suck as bad as you do. That was an interesting statement he made. Yeah. And that's why I say the things that I say about Kyle, when he said, I suck as bad as you

do, you can obviously tell that that frustration is there about the performance of his car. Yeah. And he's done a really good job of managing. everything up until this point but it didn't work out. Yeah. So Big Country, he got like six people. He tossed six people like The Undertaker. Need a couple honorable mentions here.

Davy Siegel. Glad you're okay. Series X sound. Dave got landed on by Kyle Busch. Bob Pockris, Bob viral. Yep. His face is like it was terrified. Yeah.

All the emotions on that face. Yes. So I hope somebody goes through all the angles and clips everyone's faces at the point of impact. There it is. Bob. Look at profile pick. That's fantastic. People have been quoting it and saying when the edibles hit, that's the face.

His dedication level, though, is so high in those moments. He is going to get the video footage. You cannot hold Bob down. Hey, race fans. Thanks for watching our video for all NASCAR on Fox News, content, and the best clips from Fox Sports. be sure to follow and subscribe to our channel.