BRISTOL, Tenn. -- Darienne Breazeale couldn't walk down pit road at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday without NASCAR fans stopping to gush over a video of the 23-year-old North Carolina native's recent encounter with Kyle Busch in traffic.
Before her now-famous exchange with the Sprint Cup Series champion, Breazeale was just a diehard Kyle Busch fan who, as told by her friends, would knock down walls to meet the No. 18 driver.
No destruction was necessary when Busch pulled up right next Breazeale in traffic after the Joe Gibbs Racing driver swept the weekend at Martinsville Speedway, winning both the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and Sprint Cup Series races.
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After the video went viral, Kyle and Samantha Busch invited Breazeale and her friends to spend the weekend with the No. 18 crew at "The Last Great Colosseum," which is Breazeale's first trip to the short track.
"Ever since we've got here, everybody has just been so nice," Breazeale told NASCAR.com on Saturday. "Every part of his crew has just gone out of their way ... They've let us sit out here with the team the whole time, stand with him while he does the Pledge of Allegiance, national anthem and all that stuff."
This was just Day 1 at the track for Breazeale, who plans on participating in more interviews and events before Sunday's Food City 500 (1 p.m. ET, FOX, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
"I didn't even have anything planned today with him," Breazeale said. "I have a certain time to be with him tomorrow ... but today when he got out of the car after practice I was standing at his trailer and I was like, 'What's up?' and he did like I did in the video, started freaking out and was like, 'You're awesome' and gave me a high five."
Breazeale has gotten an outpouring of attention since the video was posted, but what she's most proud of is what it's done for her favorite driver.
"What's so awesome to me, is that people who didn't like him (Kyle Busch) before or didn't realize how exciting NASCAR can be, they saw that and they saw how someone can be that excited about it," Breazeale said.
"People that didn't like Kyle before, they're like, 'Wow, he's a good guy.' So I think he gained some fans out it."