Major Blow for Chase Elliott & Kyle Busch’s NASCAR Fans

and Kyle Busch are two of NASCAR’s most followed drivers. And yet, their Most Popular Driver awards and racing feats haven’t been enough for Netflix to cover them in its new NASCAR docuseries ‘Full Speed’. Despite NASCAR announcing that the show would cover the 2023 postseason, the list of “featured drivers” that Netflix has given out does not have the names of Elliott and .

Advertisement Along with being a 2x Cup champion and a NASCAR household name for years, Busch was also a part of last season’s playoff until he was knocked in the Round of 12. Though Elliott did not make it to the playoffs, his journey of recovery could have been an interesting side story for fans.

Loading embed tweet https://twitter.com/jeff_gluck/status/1745104833953063198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Advertisement Ross Chastain and Bubba Wallace are two drivers who were knocked out of the competition along with Busch. It is rather surprising that their journeys have been covered, but Busch’s maiden season with Richard Childress Racing did not make the cut.

Fans of Chase Elliott and Kyle Busch will be left disappointed with the exclusion of their stars, but the show is set to feature other notable playoff participants including Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin, and Kyle Larson. Kyle Busch’s one pending wish and the mixed outlook on Full Speed For Busch, one wish remains to become a reality.

He already had a documentary ‘Rowdy’ covering his life up to his 2015 championship released in 2022. Though the 2x champion was glad with his foray into entertainment, he that the documentary had done more to get people to understand him. He said, Featuring on the Netflix show could have gone some way in appeasing Busch’s desire, but it will have to be left hungry for a little while more.

Though Full Speed is expected to give NASCAR a big advantage in increasing viewership, thoughts on it are mixed from the Cup Series grid. Former champion Joey Logano , “ Advertisement Ross Chastain is on the other side of the spectrum from Logano. In the wake of the Full Speed trailer release, he wrote on X, Loading embed tweet https://twitter.com/RossChastain/status/1745197866748953017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Fans won’t have to wait long to see if Netflix will stir up fresh controversies like it did with Formula One through Drive to Survive.

The production houses released a trailer for Full Speed on Wednesday and confirmed that it would premiere on the platform on January 30. Advertisement.