It started with a simple question to Kurt Busch from NASCAR.com reporter Joe Menzer following two on-camera interviews by ESPN and MRN on pit road at Richmond International Raceway. âKurt, can either you or Jimmie win the Chaseâ¦â Menzer began to ask. Before Menzer could finish his thought, Busch cut him off. âHow did I see you were going to come with that? Weâre good.â Busch said. In an attempt to end the interview, Busch turned away and started walking down pit road. Menzer called after him and said the question was legitimate following the multiple incidents with Jimmie Johnson during Saturday nightâs race. At that moment, Busch turned around yelling expletives at Menzer, coming at him as if he wanted to fight. As he called Menzer names and continued to try to get at him, team members from Buschâs Penske Racing team had to physically restrain Busch.(SB Nation)
AND It was the 2004 champion, though, who seemed to be feeling the pressure afterward. He castigated a reporter during a pit-road interview and renewed a heated discussion with him before a news conference 30 minutes later in the media center. He then challenged another reporter who asked Johnson to respond to Busch’s contention that he was in the five-time champion’s head. “I didn’t say that tonight,” retorted Busch, who later tore up a transcript of the interview (which was broadcast on national TV) handed to him by the reporter. “Did not.”(USA Today and more news on this at Sports Illustrated)(9-11-2011)
