Buescher escapes wild card race with a top-three finish

James Buescher, his team and the No. 31 Koike Aronson Ransome Turner Motorsports Chevrolet rolled into the biggest track on the NASCAR circuit. Just one point out of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) championship point standings lead, the team needed a clean race with their sights on the big goal: the championship. An amazing save by Buescher coming to the white flag kept him in position to avoid the carnage that took place behind him on the backstretch to bring home the No. 31 Koike Aronson Ransome Chevy in third place.  With just one practice on the schedule for the weekend, the Turner Motorsports team went right to work on single-truck runs. After getting comfortable with the balance of the truck, Buescher wanted to test out the ability to push and find the truck’s limits. The team would post a solid lap and finish up final practice in the second position and would become a threat to claim the Keystone Light Pole award. Coming up just short of that  number one startin...