Kyle Busch wins Maine moose hunting permit posthumously amid lottery announcement
Yahoo Sports • 1 min read • Latest: Jun 23, 2026, 2:06 PM
Last updated Jun 23, 2026
Kyle Busch, the two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion, was announced as a winner of a moose hunting permit in Maine. The lottery results were released by the state's Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, which included Busch among the 2,645 recipients. Busch passed away a month prior due to complications from pneumonia. The permit win has raised questions about the administrative processes that did not cross-check winners against death certificates. It remains unclear how the permit will be reassigned now that the error has been identified.
- •Busch won a moose permit in Maine's 2026 lottery.
- •He passed away about a month ago at 41.
- •The lottery results included 2,645 winners.
- •Bureaucracy did not check against death records.
- •Reassignment of the permit is yet to be clarified.
- 2:06 PMYahoo Sports — Kyle Busch Just Won a Maine Moose Hunting Permit, Which Is a Hell of a Way to Find Out He's Been Gone a Month
"Bureaucracy, as a rule, does not read the obituaries. The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife proved that beautifully over the weekend when it announced the winners of its 2026 Moose Permit Lottery and, nestled among 2,645 lucky recipients of an antlered-moose permit, was one Kyle Busch of Denver, North Carolina. Check out: Best Prime Day Deals for Off-Roaders (2026) If that name rings a bell, it should. Busch was a two-time Cup Series champion who won more races than anyone across
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