#Richmond times dispatch obituaries 2003 driver
#Richmond times dispatch obituaries 2003 series

#Richmond times dispatch obituaries 2003 series

It was the 139th Cup Series win for primary team owner Jack Roush and his second since Keselowski joined the ownership group ahead of the 2022 season. Buescher became the 13th points race winner this year, and there are three playoff spots up for grabs over the next month. Keselowski was up front for 102 laps on the 0.75-mile oval and wound up sixth.īuescher started 26th and had to drive through most of the 36-car field for the win that locked him into the 16-driver playoff field with four races remaining in the regular season. 'I knew that last restart was going to be tough, but I knew we had the speed in this thing,' said Buescher, a 30-year-old Texas native who won at Pennsylvania's Pocoono Raceway as a rookie in 2016 for Front Row Motorsports and at Tennessee's Bristol Motor Speedway last September during his inaugural season for RFK Racing.īuescher and 2012 Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski, his teammate and RFK's co-owner, led a combined 190 of the 400 laps in their Fords.

That erased his lead over Virginia native Denny Hamlin, who was booed by his hometown crowd before the race, but Hamlin got a poor final restart and Buescher easily pulled away for his first Cup Series win of the season and third of his career. Chris Buescher pulled away on a restart with three laps to go and won Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series event at Richmond Raceway, snagging one of the final spots still available in the playoff field as the regular season zooms toward its conclusion.īuescher led 88 laps and was ahead by nearly six seconds when a caution came out with less than 10 laps to go. Almost got to the outside, and then in Turn 4, almost got to the outside again, and then in Turn 1, I was like ‘I’m just going to ship it in there and try to get to the outside one more time’ and I just carried way too much speed and locked up the left front tires.RICHMOND, Va. “I had to recover too much ground from what I lost on the frontstretch. He finished 0.549 seconds behind Buescher, with Busch winding up 0.817 off the winning pace. Hamlin’s bid for the victory ended on the second lap of the final sprint when he drove in too deep in the first turn and slid up the track. When the green flag was shown again, Buescher used the inside line to pull away for his third career victory. The race was slowed just three times by caution flags, the last sending the leaders to pit road for four tires with eight laps to go. We have a good points gap, but we want wins and this is where we need to be.” We need to get both cars locked in the playoffs. It’s nice to have one car locked in the playoffs. “It sure beats not having any at all, but we want to keep going.

“One win is good, but you get three or four or five and then you feel a lot better,” said Keselowski. Keselowski, despite being winless this season, is currently in a playoff position based on points. Kyle Busch was third in a Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing, followed by the Fords of Joey Logano from Team Penske and Ryan Preece of Stewart-Haas Racing. Hamlin, the winner last week at Pocono, finished second in a Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. That leaves four playoff spots up for grabs over the next month.

#Richmond times dispatch obituaries 2003 driver

Buescher became the 13th race winner this year, but one winner, Shane Van Gisbergen, is ineligible for the playoffs because he’s not a full-time driver in the Cup Series. Keselowski, now a part owner of the team, led 102 laps on the 0.75-mile oval but finished sixth.īuescher started 26th and had to drive through the field for the win that locked him into the 16-driver playoff field with four races remaining in the regular season. He and RFK Racing teammate Brad Keselowski led a combined 190 of the 400 laps. “I knew that last restart was going to be tough, but I knew we had the speed in this thing,” Buescher said. That erased his sizable lead over local favorite Denny Hamlin, who was booed by his hometown crowd in prerace introductions.īut Hamlin got a poor final restart and Buescher easily pulled away for his first Cup Series win of the season, and third of his career. He was ahead by nearly six seconds when a caution came out with under 10 laps to go.