Kurt Busch shared his thoughts on the current NASCAR Cup Series and what he believes is one of the biggest problems with it.

During an appearance on the Door Bumper Clear podcast, Busch was asked by host Freddie Kraft, “Just talk about this car and what you’re seeing on the race track.”

Busch answered, “The car, to me, that’s one issue. I think what really started things, call it the mid 2010s. Data sharing. Data sharing. There were teams and programs that were scraping information where other teams didn’t know that. And what I’m getting at is steering trace, braking trace, throttle, all of the essentials on how you would from as a young driver. Now, everyone has the same data. Everyone’s looking at the same thing. Everyone has live braking data or shift points, fuel mileage mapping.”

“When I learned that our team at 23XI, we could check on what Hendrick was running for their throttle position in 2022 with this Next Gen car for Daytona, I’m like, ‘Really? It’s gone this far?’ They know live on what throttle position they have and it’s too much. Everyone has the same information. So what do you do when everyone has the same information? Everyone’s the same speed,” he continued. “And you’re now starting to see-. Like, yesterday [at Watkins Glen], I was happy for my brother to have a decent race, but there he is. He’s locked with Austin Dillon. The team cars were almost like locked together on where they were other than the Trackhouse cars. With SVG he’s not human right now. He’s a different being. But I knew Chastain would have a good day because he was able to have that data sharing and learning from SVG.”

Speaking specifically to the car, Busch added, “It’s pretty wild. The car, it’s too locked down in certain ways. I’d like to see more open rules, more creativity, different things for short tracks, different things for super speedways. But then you get into the cost portion of it for the owners. So, who knows. There’s just so many different ways we can look at this. But, at the end of the day, we’re seeing a lot of cool restarts. We’re seeing good battles and rivalries brewing. Some good contact, but also some good racing as well, but it’s not the best.”

Kraft then shared his own thoughts, “You talked about it. Essentially, the idea of this car was parity. So you made all the cars the same. You share all this data. You’re making the drivers the same. Where do you expect to see the difference in how we’re going to pass each other if we’re all doing the same thing?”

Busch added, “Back in the day you’d stand on top of the truck, right? You’d see it with a stopwatch. You’d see it with the eyeball line on where Mark Martin would beat me or Rusty Wallace was quicker than that guy. And you’d have to learn from looking at it and then maybe scrape up a VHS tape — I know I’m getting old now — pull up the DVR and go review it. But you didn’t have the full on tablet to show you everything.”

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