Daniel Suarez on the circumstances of Kyle Busch's death: "It's just very, very shocking"

Daniel Suarez had an incredibly thoughtful answer when I asked him how difficult it is to accept the circumstances of Kyle Busch's death.

"It's difficult because it was completely unexpected. When somebody's sick, when somebody gets old - Maybe there is a chance, right? But when the guy's healthy, he just won a race last week, 41 years old - You don't expect this.

"And then somebody like him that has won so much, I mean, you almost see him as one of the superheroes, you know? One of those guys that 'hey, if something happens to him, he's gonna be okay.' It's tough. It's very, very tough. ... It's just very, very shocking. You know what I mean? It doesn't matter how it happened, but it's just very, very shocking to lose a legend like this."

Suarez has experience with losing a peer in racing: He was on his way into the NASCAR Mexico Series in 2009 when Carlos Pardo, the series' inaugural champion, was killed in a crash at Puebla. While Suarez intersected with Pardo, he explained how losing Kyle Busch is much different for him personally.

"When Carlos passed, I only had raced against him once. I wouldn't call him my friend, because I was just coming up. This guy was my friend.

"And Julia is friends with Samantha, and I know Brexton very well, I know Lennix - I have known Brexton since he was a baby. It's just tough. It's just a lot of things. A lot of things. It's a little different, because I felt like this person was somebody that I was close to."

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