Zach Minnis

Purdue University 2017 Alumni | Service Engineer

[Zach Minnis @Zach_Menace]

Grind silently. Keep your circle small. Let people forget about you. Listen more than you talk. Observe.
Most importantly, laugh and appreciate the life you live.

[sar. @maketheapex]

The results of Kyle Busch's cause of death were released. He started with a sinus infection a couple of weeks ago, he had a cough. He kept racing, because that's what drivers do. It turned into pneumonia. Pneumonia is treatable, 450 million people get it a year. So he kept racing.

But then it turned into sepsis. Sepsis can be fatal in a matter of hours.

He was in the racing sim when things went badly, they took him from there directly to the hospital. Within 24 hours one of the biggest racing legends was dead at just 41 years old. From something that was treatable, something he raced through.

Losing Kyle has been a hard hit to the racing community, reminding everyone how real these drivers are.

But now all I keep thinking is how our guys in F1 do the same thing. Motorsport puts tremendous pressure on drivers to compete and show up every week.

In the 2022 Monza race weekend, Alex Albon drove through 2 practices Friday, felt terrible, was diagnosed with appendicitis, went into surgery Saturday, something went wrong and caused respiratory failure, then put on a ventilator and into a medically induced coma. ....And 2 weeks later was back racing in Singapore.

In 2023, Max Verstappen was sick and missed media day in Saudi Arabia, but came back to drive through all sessions in the race weekend, revealing later he was so sick it felt like he "was missing a lung."

Lando in 2024 was so sick in a way that wouldn't go away, he coughed and hacked his way through every single lap on the track for nearly 2 months.

This video from Singapore last year, moments before getting in the car for one of the most physically exhausting races of the season he had to sit down on the grid, his team saying he was so sick he looked green. But Lando was fighting for a championship. If he hadn't driven through it, he wouldn't be the 2025 World Champion.

And now we've lost the most winningest driver in NASCAR history, holding an all-time record of 234 career victories across the sport's top three national series, because he kept driving. He won a race less than a week before he died. He drove through it.

I don't know what we do about that. I don't know what could ever change to make that any less horrifying.

But I think its worth talking about. If nothing else, Kyle Busch's legacy deserves it.

[Delph @bootybanjo]

this is like if peyton manning randomly died in between week 7 and week 8 in one of his denver seasons

[Taylor Kitchen @_TaylorKitchen_]

Richard Childress Racing will suspend use of the No. 8 and utilize the No. 33 at CMS and beyond.

Team statement:

[Zach Minnis @Zach_Menace]

@3beebeebee3 @nicksortor This is not true. His leg injury was before the Clash at Bowman Gray which was February 4th, 2026.

[Zach Minnis @Zach_Menace]

I was 6 years old when Dale died and it’s a core memory from my parent’s living room. If you happen to be too young to know, or weren’t into the sport at that time, THIS is how it felt.

[Jesse Marshall @jmarshfof]

Kyle Busch was Dale Earnhardt to the generation that came after Dale Earnhardt.

[Zach Vortex @Zach_Vortex]

He was only a couple years away from racing with his son on the nascar level. That was going to be so special. This is beyond unfair.

[Daniel Céspedes @_DanielCespedes]

Truly 1 of 1.

Rest in Peace, Kyle.

[Zach Minnis @Zach_Menace]

@KyleBusch They’re *

[KP 🦩🇺🇸 @Andrettism]

the cars that trackhouse brought today

[Jordan Stocks @StockTalks21]

💀💀💀

[Zach Minnis @Zach_Menace]

@KellyCrandall Can someone interview them ? lol curious which way they leaned.

[Zach Minnis @Zach_Menace]

@DLand91 Good. He deserves it. Classic old man stuck in his ways.

[Zach Minnis @Zach_Menace]

@_1017__ @jeff_gluck Permanent charters. Where you been for 7 days? lol

[Zach Minnis @Zach_Menace]

@MartyCzekala @jeff_gluck Great comment

[Zach Minnis @Zach_Menace]

@STaranto92 Yeah this is after the drivers complained for two seasons and pushed for changes bruh 🤣

[Jase @hovar_]

this should not be a career ending crash, steve.

[Andrew Cooper @CoopAFiasco]

Don't you just hate when your QB breaks his leg then plays through that and tears his Achilles then the backup goes in but hurts his knee too and your third QB isn't available either because he blasted his eye socket with a giant rubber band?

Don't you just hate that?

[Zach Minnis @Zach_Menace]

@nflmemes IU football should be worried

[Is NASCAR’26 Out? @IsNASCAR26Out]

I’m agreeing with about 98% of NASCAR Twitter tonight

Connor deserved it