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James Buescher top Raybestos Rookie in BUBBA Burger 250
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James Buescher, 12th
Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 20th
Brian Scott, 28th
UNOFFICIAL Raybestos Rookie standings:
Brian Scott, 92
James Buescher, 87
Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 85
Colin Braun, 74
Parker Kligerman, 25
RAYBESTOS® ROOKIE CONTENDER QUOTES FOR THE
BUBBA BURGER 250 NASCAR NATIONWIDE SERIES RACE
AT RICHMOND INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY, APRIL 30, 2010
NOTES:
- Buescher scored an 12th-place finish and claimed Raybestos Rookie of the Race honors for the second time this season.
- UNOFFICIALLY Brian Scott leads Buescher by five points (92-87) in the Raybestos Rookie standings.
BUESCHER: “We had pretty decent track position. We were like 13th when the second caution came out. We were overheating and had to get some tape off the nose. We had to pit out of sequence and put us back like 31st. We drove back up to 15th on that real long green flag run. The car drove awesome all night. It was just a little free the second half. We rallied back without cautions and got more spots whenever the cautions come out and got spots on pit road every time. I like short track racing, especially at nighttime.”
DID YOU PIT DURING THAT LAST CAUTION?
“We pitted but about two laps before that 98 hit the wall my radio went dead and just had a real loud buzzing. The caution came out and I started trying to unhook the battery and unhook the wire from one radio and hook it up to the other one and turn it on and right when I finally got it plugged in they said ‘If you can hear us, come to pit road.’ So I turned down pit road and I was getting into Turn 3. We almost didn’t get that last pit stop in and it’s a good thing we did because the last two laps we picked up quite a few positions.”
YOUR CAR OWNER JAMES FINCH ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK THAT THIS TEAM IS FOR SALE. HOW IMPORTANT IS IT EVERYONE HERE TO RUN WELL?
“Well when people say they’re selling their team you don’t really know when or what that entails. We don’t have sponsorship and everybody’s still working really hard. Everything is coming to the racetrack as if we had a sponsor and we are planning on running all year. I haven’t heard anything otherwise. I’m going with the fact that we’re running all year and trying to get Raybestos Rookie of the Year.”
YOU ARE PLANNING TO RUN THE TRUCK RACE AT KANSAS THIS WEEKEND.
“I’ve got to go catch a plane to Kansas. It’ll be a late night getting to Kansas tonight. Hopefully we can run just as good or better in the truck race on Sunday.”
“We definitely learned a lot. The first two runs we struggled. We were good on old tires. Everybody would start coming back to us. Mike Kelley [crew chief] and the CitiFinancial guys did an awesome job. The pit crew gained us spots on pit road. I learned a lot so we can come back here not so much of a rookie next time. There at the end we were clicking off really fast laps so that was a positive for us.”
ARE YOU AND MIKE KELLEY STARTING TO WORK BETTER TOGETHER?
“Oh definitely. Mike and I had a good relationship before he became my crew chief and that really helped start it. He likes to have fun but when it come down to it we’re both serious and I think that’s really working good for both of us.”
WHAT IS THE MAIN THING THAT YOU LEARNED TONIGHT THAT WILL HELP YOU WHEN YOU COME BACK HERE IN SEPTEMBER?
“I just know what the car needs during practice and I feel like it might have hurt us there a little bit not knowing exactly what it needs in practice. The race line is a little bit different than what I was running in practice from where we just ran. Those are two big things that’ll help.”
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