re: NASCAR driver Kyle Busch has passed away

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Brexton was racing at hickory motor speedway when all this was going down he got his hot laps in but has a DNS for the feature.

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Tried to verify this on MRP and the speedway website but both don’t have yesterday’s results, unfortunately.

Edit: did find this on the track FB

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Two of my most memorable moments happened at Texas. The time he wrecked Hornaday during caution lap at Texas

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I thought I'd never forgive him for this one. Cost Hornaday the championship.



But I guess I did yesterday.

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That’s the word going around now and what was posted in a group chat I’m a part of with people that have connections. quote:Double lung pneumonia. He’s had it the last 4 weeks. Walked to the ambulance then walked from the ambulance into the hospital. Did scans and saw both lungs completely full of blood then his entire body started to literally blow up like a tick. He was out of it the last 12 hours or life. Went on a ventilator at 2am and coded 3 times during the night and was long gone before they even announced actual death. But the pneumonia is what killed him first everything else that happened, was after he was already gone. He did pass out after he got of the sim at Chevy. That’s when the ambulance came.

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Just to clarify. Blood in the air spaces in the lungs is called alveolar hemorrhage which is typically different than pneumonia which is infection/inflammation. Knowing that he was complaining of a “sinus infection” last week and asked for a shot (possibly to include steroids), this is consistent with a progressive pneumonia, bacterial or viral.CT can suggest blood, but need a BAL, (bronchoalveolar lavage)
Now if lungs actually did have bleeding, that is worrisome for a nasty virus.for full list ask your favorite AI what viruses cause pulmonary hemorrhages.
Very best case for public is that this is bacterial. Otherwise Best case is that this was a severe form of flu A (like H1N1) or SARS2(Covid), worse case Hanta or other. I suspect they are waiting on the diagnostic test to come back to determine infectious source and hopefully announce as the story of what happened gets around. It will be natural and appropriate to be concerned about a transmissible cause.
The blowing up like a balloon at the end is consistent with them pumping fluids to support the ongoing cardiovascular collapse.

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You can't think of a single reason? Really

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In the context of a man simply paying tribute to his former boss and current competitor? No. If this was a thread about Bubba and how he sucks as a driver then yea. Do you not understand the difference? Some of you mfers are ruined

That has the ring of truth to me. If he’s had it for a while and still been walking around and racing, it’s nothing drivers haven’t done in the past, you miss races with NASCAR’s long schedule, you’re screwed in the points. Ned Jarrett raced with a broken back 60 years ago because he was going for the points title … and won it … and couldn’t afford to sit out.