{"id":1184317,"date":"2026-05-21T09:30:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1184317"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:04:02","slug":"kyle-busch-hospitalized-will-miss-coke-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/kyle-busch-hospitalized-will-miss-coke-600\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Busch Hospitalized; Will Miss Coke 600"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">In a statement posted to X (Twitter) Thursday morning, it was revealed that Kyle Busch will not participate in the 2026 Coca-Cola 600 this weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">\u201c<em>Kyle has experienced a severe illness resulting in hospitalization. He is currently undergoing treatment and will not compete in any of his scheduled activities this weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway. We ask for understanding and privacy as our family navigates this situation.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">In past weeks, Kyle has been audibly unwell on the in-car radio. Busch asked for a post-race \u201cshot\u201d on his in-car radio during the NASCAR Cup Series race at Watkins Glen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Into the #8 car in Busch\u2019s absence will be Austin Hill, a Richard Childress Racing teammate from the NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Series. It\u2019ll be Hill\u2019s 18th career Cup Series start.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Kyle Busch won the \u201ccrown-jewel\u201d 600 mile race in 2018, but hasn\u2019t won in the Cup Series since June of 2023. In a season that\u2019s had a few highs but a lot of lows, this is the next cog in the wheel for Kyle Busch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 41 year old has been a longtime mainstay in the sport and has built one of the more impressive Ironman streaks in sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">This weekend\u2019s Coca-Cola 600 will be Busch\u2019s first missed race in the NASCAR Cup Series since 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>In a statement posted to X (Twitter) Thursday morning, it was revealed that Kyle Busch will not participate in the 2026 Coca-Cola 600 this weekend <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/kyle-busch-hospitalized-will-miss-coke-600\/\" title=\"Kyle Busch Hospitalized; Will Miss Coke 600\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4876,"featured_media":1184318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,147,5,153,176],"tags":[1309,1312,1304,1303,1302,1308,1300,1301,1306,1307,1313,1211,1223,1310,1311,1305],"class_list":{"0":"post-1184317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-auto-racing","8":"category-featured-news","9":"category-home","10":"category-national-sports","11":"category-top","12":"tag-austin-hill","13":"tag-busch","14":"tag-charlotte","15":"tag-coca-cola-600","16":"tag-coke-600","17":"tag-kurt-busch","18":"tag-kyle-busch","19":"tag-kyle-busch-hospital","20":"tag-kyle-busch-sickness","21":"tag-kyle-busch-wnsp","22":"tag-memorial-day-weekend-racing","23":"tag-nascar","24":"tag-nascar-cup-series","25":"tag-rcr","26":"tag-richard-childress","27":"tag-world-600"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3240.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184326,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184317\/revisions\/1184326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1184318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}