While drivers like Ryan Blaney think The Chase will improve racing on the track, Kyle Busch isn’t ready to buy it. Rowdy knows how the younger drivers are racing in the lower ranks and believes that is what will continue to show up in the highest levels of NASCAR.

In the last few years, there has been more than a few complaints about rough driving. It was perhaps best exemplified when Austin Dillon wrecked Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin in order to win at Richmond in 2024. Win-at-all-costs, racing etiquette be damned.

During the NASCAR announcement for The Chase, Ryan Blaney was on the panel. He said that he believes there will be cleaner racing because of the format. Win-and-in going away doesn’t incentivize wrecking two drivers for a win if you’re 32nd in points.

Kyle Busch does not believe that to be the case. While the Cup Series is at North Wilkesboro Speedway for testing, Busch spoke to the media.

“No, no. When you watch all the children who race all year long in the ARCAs and the late models, and other things, and you see that stuff already,” Busch told Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports. “They’re taught from a very young age to divebomb, and run into him, and door that guy. Being a dad, I’ve heard those words, and maybe I’ve said those words once or twice. But yeah, I don’t think you’ll, it won’t change a whole lot.”

So, Kyle Busch is not a believer in a cleaner sport. Maybe the only saving grace is that there aren’t a bunch of kids racing in the Cup Series? I mean, besides Connor Zilisch, that is. Joking aside, we know how Busch and others feel about drivers like Ross Chastain, Carson Hocevar, and likely will feel about Zilisch at some point this year.

New, younger drivers can come in and be aggressive on the track. There is a tendency to try to prove yourself as a rookie or second-year driver in the series. Eventually, the young gun who was making everyone mad as a 21-year-old will be 35 and complaining about the next new driver in the series one day. Thus, the cycle repeats.

I mean, Kyle Busch wasn’t exactly a clean driver in his younger days. While there is a documented issue with young drivers in grassroots series being overly aggressive, wrecking cars when they shouldn’t, and otherwise being a nuisance, hasn’t that always been the case?

Not to mention, there are 13-year-olds driving full-sized stock cars at a competitive level. Not many teens have the kind of attitude and demeanor to be calm and cool behind the wheel. Then again, you have drivers like Keelan Harvick who race beyond their years. Is Busch being an old man ragging on the younger generation, or is there some truth to it? Probably a little bit of both, to be honest. That’s okay. I just want to see Rowdy win a race in 2026.