Kyle Busch reaches new low.

[Mike Holleman]

Anybody else repulsed by the dit wad smashing the beautiful custom guitar presented for winning last nights Nationwide race. What a complete Ahole he is!! I respect his talent, but he has no clue as to how to handle himself socially. He was presented the guitar by the craftsman that made it and basically spit in the man's face by promptly busting it into pieces.
Mike Holleman

[Van B]

I saw that on TV this morning. Cocky little jerk.

[68Formula]

Idiot. I'm sure his crew will be so proud to have a chunk of guitar. Don't care what your motive is, taking something someone painstakingly detailed and purposefully detroying it, is beyond rude.

[MrQuick]

wow...sounds WWE scripted to me. Did he do a scissor kick off of his fender before he smashed it?

[shortrack]

fast, but a goof......

[protour_chevelle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrXbgMzejyU

[MonzaRacer]

He is ordering like 2 or 3 more but this one is getting cut up into pieces so everyone in crew is getting a piece. Heck when you figure some rockstars have bashed and burnt so many now rare and obscure instrument pieces and no one bitches, heck I think it was orIginal BECAUSE HE SAID IF HE WON IT HE WOULD CUT IT UP.

[Samckitt]

I don't like him, never have.

[TGVettes]

that was completely redicolous. I'm a guitar player and car/racing fanatic and this really got me to loose
respect for him.

Tonny

[69Nova]

I'm on the Gibson forum and those guys are pretty pissed... I have never like him and was gaining a little respect for the guy but as a Gibson fanboy I really don't like him now.

[ProdigyCustoms]

I bet he wishes he has a rewind button for that one.

[shortrack]

He is ordering like 2 or 3 more but this one is getting cut up into pieces so everyone in crew is getting a piece. Heck when you figure some rockstars have bashed and burnt so many now rare and obscure instrument pieces and no one bitches, heck I think it was orIginal BECAUSE HE SAID IF HE WON IT HE WOULD CUT IT UP.

the guitar was the trophy for winning the race......the way people look at it is how would you like to own a racetrack,go to all the trouble of putting on a race, give a guy an expensive trophy for winning your race that you've put your heart and soul into only to have the guy smash the living crap out of it 2 minutes after you gave it to him.....kind of insulting

I think the ordering of the new ones is damage control......

[smooth68]

He's a very talented driver, but he is still an idiot and a sissy a$$ crybaby whenever something doesnt go his way....never liked him!!:bsjerk:

[protour_chevelle]

Super classy guy too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlExsW5R-gM

what a knob.

[fishtail8]

Asshat...

[Vegas69]

I agree it was very disrespectful but what an ugly guitar. haha

[moreHP]

I cant lose any respect for him since I never had any to begin with!

[bigvegan]

That video was about as tacky as anything I've ever seen.

Here's a little more about the trophy that got wrecked.

http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/headlines/bg/04/07/sam.bass.nashville/index.html

CONCORD, N.C. -- The far-reaching influence of motorsports artist Sam Bass has never been more evident as the Nationwide Series rolls into Nashville Superspeedway (http://www.nascar.com/races/tracks/nss/) this weekend. The renowned illustrator and designer has created the electrifying artwork for both the winner's trophy and the cover of the souvenir program for the event.
Each year, Bass designs the colorful illustrations that adorn the Official Gibson Guitar Trophy given to the winners of Nashville's major races,which include three NASCAR events this season.
https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/06/guitar193-1.jpg


This marks the 29th such trophy the artist has created for the 1.333-mile Tennessee track, continuing a tradition that began when Jack Sprague (http://www.nascar.com/drivers/dps/jsprague00/truck/index.html) carried home the first one in June of 2002. In the years since, the list of drivers who have earned the most sought-after musical instrument in motorsports has grown to include: Carl Edwards, Dario Franchitti (http://www.nascar.com/drivers/dps/dfranchi00/cup/index.html), Clint Bowyer, Scott Dixon, Kevin Harvick, Tony Kanaan and Travis Kvapil, to name just a few.
This truly one-of-a-kind trophy has come to symbolize racing in Music City.
In fact, Sports Illustrated described it as one of the Top 10 coolest trophies in all of sports. This year's design is perhaps the most dynamic yet.
"The Sam Bass designed Gibson Les Paul Trophy Guitar is the trademark of the Nashville Superspeedway," said Sean Dozier, Nashville Superspeedway's director of public relations. "The guitar is instantly recognized around the country as one of the most coveted trophies in NASCAR."...

EDIT: At least Sam Bass, the artist who painted the guitar, was a class act about it.

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/31147123/

One onlooker who applauded the theatrics was Sam Bass, the artist who paints Nashville’s trophy guitars.

“I’ll be honest with you, I was stunned when it happened,” Bass said. “But when I went to Victory Lane to take a picture with Kyle, he said there was no disrespect to me, the speedway or the sponsors. He just said he was going to give each one of his guys a piece of the trophy. In the spirit of rock and roll and, as someone who appreciates rock and roll, he put on a show.”

That he did.

[Damn True]

PUNK ROCK!


https://static1.pt-content.com/images/noimg.gif



Yeah, not quite the same. But if the guy who built it isn't PO'd I'm not gonna get all exercised about it.

[Rhino]

But if the guy who built it isn't PO'd I'm not gonna get all exercised about it.

Something tells me part of it is "being the bigger man"

The other thought that comes to mind is the publicity it is offering him.
How many people saw the last guitar/trophy design he did? Heck, how many people had even heard of Sam Bass before last night? :)

I'm sure his artwork has just hit an all time popularity high.

[JV69z/28]

I don't like him, never have.

I can't stand him either.

[Damn True]

Something tells me part of it is "being the bigger man"

The other thought that comes to mind is the publicity it is offering him.
How many people saw the last guitar/trophy design he did? Heck, how many people had even heard of Sam Bass before last night? :)

I'm sure his artwork has just hit an all time popularity high.


Meh...I still think it's pretty funny.

[Steve1968LS2]

the guitar was the trophy for winning the race......the way people look at it is how would you like to own a racetrack,go to all the trouble of putting on a race, give a guy an expensive trophy for winning your race that you've put your heart and soul into only to have the guy smash the living crap out of it 2 minutes after you gave it to him.....kind of insulting

I think the ordering of the new ones is damage control......

Yea, it would have been like us smashing the Optima trophy right when it was handed to us so we could give away pieces of glass?

I see this as a lame thing to do.. I don't get it... He may not have meant it as being disrespectful, but it came off that way. Good thing he didn't win the Stanley Cup.. lol

What would have been cooler if he didn't want it would have been to auction it off on eBay and give the $$$ to a charity in the team's name.

[79-TA]

Kyle Busch is easily on my bottom 5 list of drivers. For the record, he did contact Gibson before his little stunt to get their blessing . . . so his wannabe rockstar move went from disrespectful to lamely scripted. Yes, desperate attention seeking is a lose-lose scenario.

[moreHP]

Kyle Busch is easily on my bottom 5 list of drivers. For the record, he did contact Gibson before his little stunt to get their blessing . . . so his wannabe rockstar move went from disrespectful to lamely scripted. Yes, desperate attention seeking is a lose-lose scenario.


So he knew he was going to win? Scripted racing? :secret:

[Damn True]

So he knew he was going to win? Scripted racing? :secret:

It might have been more of a "hey, if I win...would it be cool if I....."

[68Formula]

It might have been more of a "hey, if I win...would it be cool if I....."

"...do something retarded like..."

[Nine Ball]

What an assclown. They should have handed him a cheap crap guitar to smash up if he really wanted to do that.

[hotrdblder]

if everyone wanted a piece, he should of just manned up and bought all his team identical guitars. I am sure he might have the coin for it...

[shortrack]

if everyone wanted a piece, he should of just manned up and bought all his team identical guitars. I am sure he might have the coin for it...

now that would have been the right way to do it.......!

[69stang]

umm...Nashville is the country music capital. Where'd the rock n roll antics come from?:dunno:


if everyone wanted a piece, he should of just manned up and bought all his team identical guitars. I am sure he might have the coin for it...
X2

I think they should tell him to shove his order of replacements.

[vintageracer]

What do you expect from a guy named after "cheap beer"!

At least Al Bundy has some class when he named his son.

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2009/06/faustino-1.jpg

[Jarcaines]

What would have been cooler if he didn't want it would have been to auction it off on eBay and give the $$$ to a charity in the team's name.

Steve is 100x more classy then Kyle, who is surprised by this?

[Restomod]

PUNK ROCK!
Yeah, not quite the same. But if the guy who built it isn't PO'd I'm not gonna get all exercised about it.

Hes Po'd he just cant say so publicly.............

[69bigblock]

He just wants the attention so evertbody talks about him making him more popular.. When he doesn't do well in a race he will not give an interview, so when he does good don't give him an interview. If or when he wins say the cup trophy or daytona 500 lets see him smash those..

[HOTRODSHOP]

Kyle is a punk. found this today on NASCAR Scene

Sam Bass, the longtime NASCAR artist who painted the Gibson guitar smashed by Kyle Busch after the Nashville Nationwide Series race on Saturday night, said he was “stunned and heartbroken” to see his work destroyed in victory lane.

Though Busch immediately told Bass he “meant no disrespect” to anyone – the artist, Gibson or the track – Bass said Monday he’s struggled to accept the incident.

“It’s like raising a child,” Bass said. “You start out with nothing and you finish it and you hope people will take care of it. And it was stunning, absolutely stunning to see that thing destroyed within seconds of him getting it.”

Bass said Busch told him he would order two more guitars from Gibson to be painted like the one that got smashed, and the artist said he understood the “rock-star thing” Busch was trying to accomplish.

“It’s his trophy, he can choose to do with it what he wants,” Bass said. “But I’m not going to lie about it. If he had asked me, ‘Hey, I’m thinking about destroying that trophy guitar whenever I win it, what do you think,’ of course I would have told him, ‘No! Please don’t. Let us give you a prop guitar.’”

The Gibson guitar has become the symbol of Nashville Superspeedway, and the one Busch smashed was the 30th designed by Bass, who said the trophy has come to be “a very revered piece of history … and revered by the fans here in Tennessee.”

Seeing Busch smash the guitar after getting out of the car upset both fans and sponsors. Bass noted that representatives from race sponsor Federated Auto Parts walked out of victory lane after Busch’s act.

Bass estimated that he and Gibson put “hundreds and hundreds of hours” of work into the guitar, which is so unique that “you can’t just buy this thing right off the shelf.”

“A guitar might be a guitar and he might have seen rock stars destroy them and things like that, but at the same time, this is a trophy,” Bass said. “You wouldn’t think he would destroy the Daytona trophy or the Brickyard trophy or something like that.

“This is much more than just a guitar somebody plays at a concert and beats the hell out of when they’re done. It symbolizes something much bigger, much greater – and that’s the part I don’t think he thought all the way through.”

After the race, Bass smiled in pictures with Busch and told reporters he was OK with Busch’s act. He said his feelings haven’t changed and he has no interest in criticizing Busch for what happened, preferring instead to stick to a personal philosophy of always taking the high road.

“I’m not going to accost him in victory lane or fuss at him and berate him,” Bass said. “If he told me he meant no disrespect, I’m going to take him at his word that he meant no disrespect.”

But Bass couldn’t help but wonder what would have happened if the situation were reversed.

“What if I won a contest to win Kyle Busch’s car?” he said. “Let’s say the crew prepares it and everything else and I accept it at an awards ceremony and just start beating the hell out of it.

“I don’t think they would appreciate that, it would hurt their feelings that they put their work and time and energy and effort into it.”

And what if Busch races at Nashville again next year?

“I joked with someone that if Kyle’s in the show, we’ll make an exact replica – only it’ll be a pillow,” he said.

[68fusion]

Now this looks like a job for me
So everybody, just follow me
Cause we need a little, controversy
Cause it feels so empty, without me
I said this looks like a job for me
So everybody, just follow me
Cause we need a little, controversy
Cause it feels so empty, without me

manufactured controversy LAME! If you're gonna be the BAD guy don't ask for "OK" from involved parties...lost all ya street cred G :bsjerk:

Heck with the lil E comments and this he should be able to pick up a case at least before the race!

[shmoov69]

I don't know what y'all expected?!? Heck, he is a spoiled brat! And this is just further proof!
Don't get me wrong, the boy can drive, but a silver, make that gold spooned brat! Prolly always will be too.

[HOTRODSHOP]

:box2:Someone needs to get ahold of him like Jimmy Spencer did his brother.

[Damn True]

Kyle is a punk. found this today on NASCAR Scene


“A guitar might be a guitar and he might have seen rock stars destroy them and things like that, but at the same time, this is a trophy,” Bass said. “You wouldn’t think he would destroy the Daytona trophy or the Brickyard trophy or something like that.

“This is much more than just a guitar somebody plays at a concert and beats the hell out of when they’re done. It symbolizes something much bigger, much greater – and that’s the part I don’t think he thought all the way through.”




Uh, I beg to differ.

Joe Strummer's, Paul Siminon's or Pete Townsend's guitars would all be worth far more at a Christies auction than a race trophy from Nashville....seriously....Nashville.

A bit too much silliness and parsing of words here. We aren't talking about the Borg-Warner, or the Harley Earl perpetual trophy.

Was it dumb? Yeah kinda. But it ain't the freakin end of the world.

For a little perspective FF to 6:30....now that is serious disrespect.

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[shortrack]

:box2:Someone needs to get ahold of him like Jimmy Spencer did his brother.

yeah.......!!!!!

pretty soon no matter how fast he his sponsors will get tired of his antics and put him on notice......just like Joe Gibbs and Home Depot did to Tony Stewart a few yrs back

[RaceMan]

Wow is all I can say !! STUPID move !!!!!!!

[minendrews68]

Wow is all I can say !! STUPID move !!!!!!!

I definately agree!

[SicMonte]

oh no...he smashed a guitar that he won. waaahhhhhh......



























who cares

[slowcamaro]

oh no...he smashed a guitar that he won. waaahhhhhh......
who cares

Glad somebody said it...

[shortrack]

oh no...he smashed a guitar that he won. waaahhhhhh......



























who cares

obviously 3 pages of people.....
you know if your not interested in the thread you could just do what normal people do and skip it
Let me guess, your in your 20's and think its cool to go around saying that everything "sucks"
so what "sic" stuff are you into....???

[SicMonte]

i am into long walks on the beach, viagra and midgets...just like everyone else.