NASCAR drivers Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Kyle Busch BRAWL on live TV and need to be separated after second-lap crash that saw the bitter rivals collide in North Carolina

NASCAR drivers Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Kyle Busch got into a brawl on live television after a second-lap crash saw the rivals thrown down in North Carolina. 

Busch brought a camera crew with him to confront Stenhouse Jr., who he spun out on an early turn of the race at North Wilkesboro Speedway. 

Stenhouse Jr. threw the first punch of the fight with the teams for both fighters quickly stepping in to deescalate the fracas. 

Busch sent Stenhouse Jr. into the wall after Stenhouse tried to pass him on the first lap. An upset Stenhouse pulled his wrecked car down pit lane and parked in Busch's pit stall, got out and climbed a ladder to yell at Busch's crew. 

Fighting is not new for NASCAR, although the sport does not outline the parameters of it in its game like hockey. 

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Kyle Busch traded punches after a NASCAR event in North Carolina

Stenhouse Jr.'s No 47 car was wrecked after a collision with Busch's car during the first lap

In 2022, Ty GIbbs and Sam Mayer traded blows in pit row. Joey Gase ripped off his front bumper after his car was wrecked and threw it at the windshield of rival Dawson Crum's vehicle in March.

The teams pit crews also pushed and shoved for the better part of 30 seconds before everyone was separated during the brawl. 

'Bring it, I don't give a f***!' Busch said to Stenhouse Jr. after the men were separated. 'I sucked just as bad as you. Let's go.'

Both men calmly walked away from the fracas in different directions.  

'I felt like Kyle and I have always raced each other really hard...never had any issues,' Stenhouse Jr. told FOX after the race. 'And then I wrecked him one time at Daytona and he's been kind of bad-mouthing me ever since then. I feel like we get along OK outside the race track. I talk to him quite a bit.'

'Just definitely built up frustration with how he runs his mouth all the time about myself,' Stenhouse continued about Busch. 'But I know he's frustrated because he doesn't run near as good as he used to. I understand that.'

Kyle Busch arrived in North Carolina not looking for a fight but found one with Stenhouse Jr.

Stenhouse Jr. added that if the North Carolina race track where the incident took place had a tunnel for drivers to leave while the race was going on, he probably would have left to watch the rest at home without incident.  

'I don't have anything else for him,' Stenhouse Jr. concluded. 'If we want to do a charity match, I would do that.'

Joey Logano dominated the short track at North Wilkesboro Speedway leading all but one of 200 laps to win his second All-Star Race on Sunday night and earn $1 million. 

Logano started on the pole after posting the fastest time in qualifying on Saturday and was never really challenged, setting a record by leading more laps than any driver has in the race's 40-year history.  

Denny Hamlin finished second and Chris Buescher third in a race that lacked drama for the second straight year at the renovated track.  

The newly paved track and different versions of soft tires were supposed to create more passing. They didn't.

Hamlin admitted afterward that he just couldn't get the lead.

'I would run to him, and then you couldn't pass,' Hamlin said. 'I would lose a little bit of air there, and I would try to give my car a break and then run to him again - just have to be so much faster to get around.'