Kyle Busch, wife discuss crash, impending parenthood

In an interview with Charlotte NBC affiliate WCNC, the couple discussed how they have had to lean on each other with Samantha eight months pregnant and Kyle sleeping in a hospital bed in the living room while rehabbing a compound fracture of the right lower leg and a left mid-foot fracture following a crash during the first NASCAR XFINITY Series race of the season.

“It’s entirely weird, really,” the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing driver said. “It’s just something that you never think can happen or that you dream of but sometimes life throws weird things toward you so you just deal with it and you go on.”

Samantha recounted the first time she saw her husband after the accident and how the expectant father first thought of his baby boy.

“It was really hard to see him like that,” Samantha said. “The second he saw me, it wasn’t about him. He said, ‘Is the baby OK?’ “

Kyle remembered the moment differently.

“Well, I said, ‘Are you and him OK?’

“When I was in the hospital, they wouldn’t let her back for a while,” Kyle continued. “And so finally they brought her back, and once they brought her back, then it obviously relieves her nerves a little bit and is able to give her some calming that I’m here. I’m fine.

“We got issues, but I’m OK.”

As they prepare for their first child, the driver noted the couple has had more to do away from the track than they would during a typical season.

“We’ve made the best of the situation,” Kyle said. “Actually we feel like we’re more busy being at home than we would be if we were traveling on the road every weekend.”

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