22-02-2025
NASCAR Drivers Blasted with 'Kitty Litter' During Truck Race Red Flag
During Saturday's NASCAR Craftsman Truck race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Rajah Caruth initiated a five-truck crash that created an excess of debris on the race track. While the remaining trucks were parked on the cushion, NASCAR's response vehicles came around to lay the quick dry grit, which is nearly identical to kitty litter and is called that colloquially by most of the drivers. Moments later, the jet dryers followed, spraying the kitty litter directly toward the stopped trucks.
"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere."
— FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) February 22, 2025
Unfortunately for the remaining drivers, NASCAR truck's cockpits are exposed on the righthand side, and when the vehicles came by, everybody was peppered with grit.
Fortunately for the fans who were listening to the drivers' radios, they handled it hilariously.
Kyle Busch, who won the second stage, was heard on the radio concerned about debris on the track and then again when he realized how the cleanup crew was going to clear it.
"They're going to blow all of that right into our trucks," Busch said. "We have no right-side windows."
Once peppered through coughs, Busch quipped that he doesn't own a cat for this very reason.
"I've never owned a cat, and I can see why," Busch said over the radio.
Kyle Busch after that caution comes out says the track still was not cleaned off well enough: "That backstretch was not cleared. Debris everywhere. What are we doing?... I don' t think there's an area of the track or apron that doesn't have debris on it."
— Jeff Gluck (@jeff_gluck) February 22, 2025
Once the race went back green, it didn't stay for long as Frankie Muniz and pole-sitter Conner Mosack collided, and according to Busch, even though the jet dry and kitty litter spectacle, the track was never entirely cleared of debris.
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