LONG POND, PA. — Kyle Busch had a Joe Gibbs Racing team member slide into his Toyota through the window so he could try to figure out how to mend a fried stick shifter welded in fourth gear.
It’s rare that a NASCAR driver has a passenger in the car, so Busch made small talk on the pit stop with car chief Nate Bellows.
The Toyota never really did get fixed. There were 115 miles to the Pocono finish, Busch had a fried clutch with only one gear and had to rush his car chief out of the car.