Chris Buescher is currently the most heart broken drivers in the NASCAR Cup Series garage. He lost the Kansas Cup race to Hendrick Motorsports’ Kyle Larson on Sunday with a margin of just 0.001 second. This is the closest ever finish in the history of stock car racing and probably the closest a driver can ever finish at P2.
Finishing P2 in a race or any other sport is often the most dis-heartening thing for an athlete. What make it worse for Chris Buescher is the fact that he started celebrating after the finish thinking he had won, only for NASCAR to review and announce Kyle Larson as the race winner. After the disappointing weekend he talked with NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Jr. on how hurt he is.
He admitted via Dale Jr. Download podcast that the loss is going to hurt him for a really long time and admitted that he felt like throwing up on his way back home. Buescher admitted that if he had known he didn’t win as soon as the finish it would have been ok and he would have able to move on quickly.
This one’s going to hurt for a really, really long time…I told everybody I thought I was going to throw up on the way to the airport. I guess when I look back at it if we’d gone across the line and from the get-go thought we finished second you would have been upset about it, you’d have been hurt about it, but it would have been OK. Chris Buescher said via Dale Jr. Download.
Chris Buescher is hoping to get over the sadness before Darlington
While talking about moving on Chris Buescher said that he was advised by someone to get over the hurt with in the next-six days. So, he is trying to figure out a way to win the coming race at Darlington to bury the feeling forever.
Some of our guys said, ‘Just don’t let it hurt any more than six days. Let’s just go to Darlington, win there and we can put it behind us. So we’ll try to figure out how to make that one work. Chris Buescher said.
The whole RFK grid might be feeling the pain of Chris Buescher and would be more motivated that ever to produce a win coming into this weekends race at Darlington. They have to continue the momentum by scoring at least a top-5 to remain on fine form and chase the playoffs.
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