NASCAR legend Kurt Busch says brother Kyle should've been in 'same doghouse' as penalized Ryan Preece

Kurt Busch has claimed that by NASCAR's standards, his brother Kyle should've been punished along with Ryan Preece last week.

Both were looked at after controversial incidents at Texas, with Preece getting a 25-point penalty and $50,000 fine for his battle with Ty Gibbs, but Busch got away with just a warning after wrecking John Hunter Nemechek at the end of the race.

What damned Preece appeared to be his prior radio communication, in which he'd said 'Alright, when I get to that No. 54 I'm done with him'.

The older of the two title-winning Busch brothers criticized that thinking from NASCAR on the Door Bumper Clear podcast this week, calling for officials to go by the on-track evidence and occurrences rather than what a frustrated driver may have said several laps prior.

Busch: They should've been in the same doghouse

"That's the problem of the problem," he said. "NASCAR shouldn't go off of what someone says on the radio! They should be able to still look with the eyeball test.

"What my brother did to John Hunter [Nemechek] was the same exact thing, and there could've been maybe one or two words. Now you're in like a courtroom, 'you may have, you could have', you change one little word in a sentence...

"But to have Preece penalized and not my brother? I mean, I have no problem saying it...they both should've been in the same doghouse."

'Richard Childress wanted to fight me'

Busch recalled one time from his career where he talked himself into a penalty, saying: "There was an All-Star Race where...I think it was Dale Jr. won, or Newman won, and I needed a yellow so I wrecked Robby Gordon late in the race. I didn't say anything, but the yellow came out, we got another set of tires. I still wasn't quick enough.

"I was on a radio show the Tuesday afterwards, I can't remember what show it was, and I was a little off-guard or it was early morning [or something], and I said 'oh yeah I wrecked him, I was just looking for a yellow because I needed one more shot'. On Wednesday, NASCAR issued me a $100,000 penalty, docked points, even though it was the All-Star Race.

"Richard Childress wanted to fight me by Friday."