Ford Performance NASCAR: Buescher Gives RFK Racing First Win After Taking Bristol Night Race

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  • Chris Buescher won his first race of the season and second overall with today’s victory.

  • The win is the 138th NASCAR Cup Series triumph for car owner Jack Roush and the first under the Roush Fenway Keselowski banner.

  • Today’s win is Ford’s 718th all-time in NASCAR Cup Series competition.

 

CHRIS BUESCHER, No. 17 Fastenal Ford Mustang – VICTORY LANE INTERVIEW – “THis has been number one on my list for a really long time.  I actually love this racetrack.  It’s my favorite place we come on concrete.  It’s just so special to get Fastenal their first points Cup race.  After all these years we finally got them into Victory Lane.  We’ve got a bunch of Fastenal folks out here with us, so that’s really special and to get Ford in Victory Lane and spoil the playoffs.  Everybody on this team did such a great job, executed all day long and we had a really fast Ford Mustang.  A lot of special things came together.  I want to give a shout out to Adam Reagan.  He’s back at home and just had some knee surgery, so he’s at home recovering.  I’m just so excited right now.  This is one I’ve had circled for a really long time and if there was gonna be one this year to get, this is it.”

 

YOU MENTIONED SPOILING THE PLAYOFFS.  WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT THIS CAR THAT ALL THREE PLAYOFF WINNERS HAVE NOT BEEN PLAYOFF DRIVERS?  “I don’t even know what that count is for the year now.  I think that we knew we’ve had a ton of different winners this year and we’ve been really close and fighting hard to get here.  We’ve had a great summer.  A little bad luck, but we didn’t have any of that tonight.  We had some good fortune and some good execution and a fast race car and got to park in Victory Lane.”

 

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO GET ROUSH BACK IN VICTORY LANE?  “This is big to get RFK their first win and to get to talk to Jack and Brad and have our owners excited and pumped up to get back in Victory Lane is a great feeling and hopefully it’s the first of many.  I feel like we’ve taken some big steps, so it’s special to get here.  I appreciate Jack and everything he’s done for my career through the years and giving me a chance very early on and all the people back then – Robbie Reiser and Ken Ragan, David Ragan, all those that have done so much for my career and, of course, my parents and my family as well.  It’s all come to this.  This one is a little more special than the first one even, so it’s pretty big.”

 

BRAD KESELOWSKI, Owner, No. 17 Fastenal Ford Mustang – VICTORY LANE INTERVIEW – “There are forty-some of the best cars that nobody is gonna give you anything.  You scratch and claw for every little bit every day and every hour and, if you’re lucky and you don’t wreck, you don’t blow up, you don’t have a problem and you finish 10th to 15th, and if you’re lucky and you’re damn good, you win.  If you’re damn good and you’re not lucky, you still finish 20th or worse, so we had two cars that were really good today and one that was unlucky and one that executed and everything came the right way for them.”

 

COULD YOU GET USED TO THIS BEING YOUR FUTURE, STANDING HERE AND WATCHING OTHERS WIN?  “Oh yeah, I’m proud as hell.  Everybody has some level of ego and I’m not gonna say I don’t have any ego, but it’s easy to get over ego when you see that.”

 

WHAT’S IT LIKE CELEBRATING AS AN OWNER VERSUS A DRIVER?  “It’s a lot different, but it’s good.  This team really earned this.  We really needed this for Fastenal.  They’ve been a long-term partner for us and half the battle here is just keeping sponsors.  There’s a lot to keeping the race team going and, sure, trying to find that speed or the next pit crew member or whatever the heck it is, but trying to keep the sponsors is the only way we can do those things and you can’t keep sponsors if you don’t win.”

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