{"id":46108,"date":"2025-08-05T03:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T03:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/46108\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T03:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T03:23:21","slug":"chris-buescher-to-make-nascar-truck-debut-at-watkins-glen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/46108\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Buescher to make NASCAR Truck debut at Watkins Glen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran NASCAR driver Chris Buescher is trying something new this weekend. The 32-year-old will make his debut in the NASCAR Truck Series at Watkins Glen International, driving the No. 66 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/thorsport-racing\/995\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ThorSport Racing<\/a> Ford F-150.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Buescher is a NASCAR Xfinity Series champion (2015) and a winner of six Cup races, but he&#8217;s never actually raced in the Truck Series before. However, 352 Cup starts and 74 Xfinity starts later, that will change on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>And Watkins Glen is a great place for it, as Buescher is the defending winner of the Cup race at the iconic New York road course, besting Shane van Gisbergen in a dramatic last-lap battle last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatkins Glen has been a special place for me, especially after last year\u2019s win, so I\u2019m really looking forward to getting back there,&#8221; said Buescher in a release from the team. &#8220;It\u2019s a great place for me to make my first-ever Truck Series start, and I\u2019m thankful for Duke, Rhonda, and Allison Thorson for giving me the opportunity to do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/chris-buescher-rfk-racing-ford.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Buescher, RFK Racing Ford\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Chris Buescher, RFK Racing Ford<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Jonathan Bachman &#8211; Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>This will also be the first time Buescher has run any race in the lower divisions of NASCAR in a decade, as he never ran anything beyond Cup after securing the Xfinity title in 2015. In fact, the last time he ran &#8216;double duty&#8217; was at Watkins Glen during the 2015 season, finishing third in the Xfinity race and 37th in the Cup race.<\/p>\n<p>The Truck race, which will also feature Cup Series stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/christopher-bell\/16942\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Christopher Bell<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/ross-chastain\/17535\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ross Chastain<\/a>, will take place on Friday, August 8th, at 5:00 p.m. with coverage on FOX Sports 1.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran NASCAR driver Chris Buescher is trying something new this weekend. The 32-year-old will make his debut in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,3628,18242,82,20828,32061],"class_list":["post-46108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-nascar-truck","tag-sports","tag-watkins-glen","tag-watkins-glen-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}