00:01people are just struck at the news that kyle bush a two-time nascar cup series champion
00:07widely considered one of the greatest drivers in the sports history died suddenly yesterday
00:12at the age of 41 yeah um he was hospitalized with a sudden and severe illness now no cause
00:21of death was given his family had announced earlier in the day that he had been admitted
00:25for treatment and that's why he wouldn't be competing that weekend in the coca-cola 600 at
00:30charlotte motor speedway and he dies died just hours later so that news came out yesterday what
00:37you may not know is that kyle bush sought medical attention for a substantial cough during the
00:43watkins glenn race just a couple of weeks ago um jeff gluck is a reporter for the athletic and
00:49he shared this video from fox michael waltrop said earlier in the race that a confident kyle bush
00:57is a dangerous kyle bush your 69th victory in this series your fifth right here why do these moments
01:05never get old kyle because you never know when the last one is oh it was just two weeks ago
01:11just two weeks ago right like i mean two weeks ago he needed medical attention at watkins glenn
01:17that interview happened after the truck race at dover just last weekend um gosh it's just
01:24totally shocking right um you get 22 year career he and his brother his brother's a hall of famer
01:31kurt bush like 41 it's like shocking like back in what was it oh one when dale died right right
01:39it's like
01:40that it's it's crazy and the thing i think about most is he's a dad yeah i know i can't
01:47you know my wife and i were in bed last night reading up about it in shock he's 41 years
01:52old
01:53he's a year older than me yeah the bush brothers are from las vegas and so is my wife so
01:57they've
01:57got a special connection to her hometown and they she saw him speak at schools when she was growing up
02:03and stuff like that and they have an 11 year old and a four year old yeah we were just
02:07so dead i mean
02:08it's devastating yeah um the thing about nascar if you've never followed it is that you what you
02:16love about nascar is that you love your driver and it's even more fun to hate the other drivers
02:22and honestly the bush brothers were so easy to hate if you were not because they're they were so good
02:27and they had this like arrogance about them well deserved like i'm not putting them down at all right
02:32but like kyle bush would drive that m&m's car and then all the kids loved him because it was
02:37the
02:38m&m's car right and i'd be screaming like but he's such i'm like i hate that guy because he
02:43was good
02:43and he wasn't my guy right you know like that's the fun thing about nascar and i mean they made
02:49a
02:49career on it those guys did so so well it is just shocking and then greg biffle's death just six
02:55months ago when um and his plane crashed right like so many horrible horrible stories but anyway
03:02um yeah like thoughts and prayers definitely with everybody in the nascar community as they
03:07try to piece this all together and figure out what happened to kyle bush
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