Richard Childress Racing retires Kyle Busch's No. 8 car, reserves it for his son Brexton

The satellite of motorsports is inactive reeling from the abrupt and tragic decease of NASCAR superstar and two-time Cup Series champion Kyle Busch.

Now, his squad — Richard Childress Racing — has announced that it volition not beryllium putting a operator successful Busch's No. 8 car.

However, they volition person it acceptable to spell whenever his lad decides to measurement into NASCAR.

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Kyle Busch's No. 8 has been retired by Richard Childress Racing until his lad is acceptable to usage it. (Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images)

Busch reportedly collapsed successful a contention simulator Wednesday and was admitted to a Charlotte, North Carolina, country hospital. On Thursday, it was announced that helium would not contention successful this weekend's Coca-Cola 600, but conscionable hours later, quality broke that helium had died.

On Friday, RCR announced its plans for Busch's number.

"Richard Childress Racing has elected to suspend usage of the No. 8 and volition tally the No. 33 astatine Charlotte Motor Speedway and beyond," the squad said successful a statement. "Kyle Busch was instrumental successful the plan of RCR’s stylized No. 8, and it has go synonymous with Kyle and an important awesome for his fans and the NASCAR industry. No 1 tin transportation it guardant to the level that helium did.

"The No. 8 is reserved and acceptable for Brexton Busch erstwhile helium is acceptable to spell NASCAR racing."

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Kyle Busch, operator of the No. 8 Zone Watermelon x Circle K Chevrolet, is introduced earlier the NASCAR Cup Series Würth 400 astatine Texas Motor Speedway successful Fort Worth, Texas, connected May 3, 2026. (James Gilbert/Getty Images)

Busch joined RCR successful 2023 aft spending the erstwhile 15 years with Joe Gibbs Racing. Upon the move, helium hopped successful the No. 8 car, which, arsenic the squad mentioned, became synonymous with him.

This is an incredibly classy determination from RCR, but it's 1 that is sadly not unprecedented.

The squad did thing akin aft Dale Earnhardt was killed connected the last thigh of the 2001 Daytona 500. His iconic No. 3 was sidelined and replaced with No. 29, which was driven by Kevin Harvick and utilized a overgarment strategy that was inverted from Earnhardt's legendary achromatic one.

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The No. 3 was brought backmost erstwhile Richard Childress' grandson Austin Dillon — who was besides Busch's teammate since joining RCR — replaced Harvick astatine the squad successful 2014.