Toyota NSCS Daytona Kyle Busch Notes & Quotes:
Q) Do you feel safer at Daytona with the safety improvements that have been implemented?
Busch: “I wouldn’t say you ever feel safe, but you’re certainly grateful for the opportunity with the race tracks – not just Daytona, but all the race tracks to continue to work on the evolution of safety as well as NASCAR, the work that they’ve done throughout the years with the seats and the HANS device and our restraints and everything. I’m grateful that the Daytona International Speedway was as complimentary as they were after the crash here in the spring. They wanted to fix it and they wanted to do everything they could do in their power to make sure everything was done right here at the speedway and to make it first class. I think they’ve done that. I think there’s certainly always room for improvements – any facility you go to, I feel like there’s room for improvement. Seeing those done here at Daytona was really good.”
Have you been able to visit the area of the race track where you made impact?
Busch: “Actually Joie Chitwood (track president) and NASCAR invited me early to take a ride around and just kind of take a look at some of the things that they’ve done. We went early yesterday, just after lunch and was able to take a look at some of those things. Actually got out of the van that we were in and just walked the area a little bit, kind of looked at some things and made some more suggestions of what else they could kind of look at and try to make improvements to. They were all well receptive and I think it was a good thing that we did that. Hopefully again, we can just continue to see the evolution of safety at all these race tracks continue to expand.”
Q) Did you have any suggestions for Joie Chitwood beyond removing the grass and paving that area?
Busch: “Yeah, there’s a little bit more of an opening over there in the area in which I crashed that we’d all kind of like to see get closed up some. They have a challenge there with the road course obviously having safer barriers there and everything kind of going on. So, we’d love to be able to see that area continue to be closed up more like it is off of turn four. Turn four has got a small gap over there where the safety workers and their vehicles can come in and out. That was the only other suggestion and obviously of course the grass is an issue that I think a lot of the drivers would echo my statements on.”(Toyota Racing)(7-5-2015)
