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James Buescher Smiles - Photo Credit: Donald Miralle/Getty Images for Texas Motor Speedway

Starts Poles Wins Top-Fives Top-10′s DNFs Avg. Start Avg. Finish

3 0 0 0 0 0 25.0 15.3

James Buescher Career NNS Stats

Starts Poles Wins Top-Fives Top-10′s DNFs Avg. Start Avg. Finish

50 2 1 3 12 9 18.0 17.5

Virginia is for (Racing) Lovers… The NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) makes its second stop of the season in Richmond, Virginia for the Virginia College Savings 250 at Richmond International Raceway (RIR). James Buescher will pilot the No. 30 ABF Chevrolet Impala at the 0.75-mile D-shaped oval in Friday night’s race under the lights. Buescher has three previous starts at RIR, including a visit in April of this year. Buescher has an average start of 25.0, an average finish of 15.3, and has scored a best finish of 12th in two events (spring of 2010, spring of 2012).

Welcome Back ABF… Turner Motorsports’ long-time partner ABF returns as primary sponsor of the No. 30 Chevrolet Impala this weekend at RIR. Established in 1923, ABF is best-in-class for safety, security, technology and freight-handling. InformationWeek, CIO, InfoWorld, and B to B magazines have cited ABF’s strategic use of information technology as exemplary. ABF is the only six-time winner of the American Trucking Associations President’s Trophy for Safety, the only five-time winner of the Excellence in Security Award, and the only four-time winner of the Excellence in Claims/Loss Prevention Award. ABF also is the only carrier to earn both the Excellence in Claims/Loss Prevention Award and the Excellence in Security Award in the same year, which ABF accomplished twice.

Who’s Atop the Pit Box? Mike Hillman Jr. recently took over as crew chief for the No. 30 Turner Motorsports team which this year has featured a myriad of drivers. Hillman Jr. has been an accomplished crew chief in the NCWTS since 2005, calling the shots in 185 races and earning 19 wins, 81 top-five finishes, 107 top-10 finishes, eight poles and two championships (2006 and 2010, both with Todd Bodine). Hillman Jr. has been atop the box for two NNS races in 2012: Road America with Miguel Paludo and Bristol Motor Speedway with Nelson Piquet Jr.

Previous Race Recap… Buescher and the No. 30 team overcame adversity over and over again throughout 300-mile race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, battling through handling issues and a bad set of tires, only to have their night cut short after a late-race accident. The Turner Motorsports team looked like they would salvage a top-15 finish when another competitor made contact with the Chevy Impala with only seven laps remaining, resulting in a major wreck and a 23rd-place finish in the NRA American Warrior 300.

This Week’s Impala… The No. 30 team will unload chassis TMS-319 this weekend at Richmond International Raceway. Kasey Kahne drove this Chevrolet Impala to a 10th-place finish when the series visited RIR earlier this season.

Buescher on this weekend’s NNS race at Richmond

“Richmond is a great short track and there’s always something exciting about the Friday night races under the lights. There is more than one groove, so you’re able to run side-by-side, but you have to be really careful and precise getting into the corners. There always seems to be a little beating and banging, which is one of the reasons we always have a great crowd there.”

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- Turner Motorsports Press Release