Brad Keselowski names the Cup driver who is a natural road course racer like Tony Stewart
Tony Stewart is one of NASCAR’s most skilled road course racers.
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The 2012 NASCAR Cup series champion Brad Keselowski has named Chris Buescher a driver with similar road course racing prowess as the three times Cup series champion Tony Stewart. Buescher drives the No:17 Ford Mustang for the RFK Racing team, owned by the former Team Penske Racing driver. Keselowski drives the No:6 car for the same team.
The SHR co-owner Stewart is the second most successful RC racer in history. He has won eight such races in his career, only topped by four times Cup champion Jeff Gordan who has nine wins. He has finished outside the top 10 in the road course just once in the Next-Gen era. His best finish was a P2 at Sonoma in 2022, and his worst finish, a P21, came at COTA last year.
With the impressive momentum of two consecutive wins, the 2015 Xfinity Series champion is the driver with the biggest positive momentum going into the event. While talking about his teammate’s talent, boss Keselowski pointed out that Buescher is one of the sport’s best natural road course talents and is similar to Tony Stewart.
“He’s talented, and he picks it up so fast. He adapts very quickly and understands what he needs to do in the car and what he needs out of the car at a very high level. (Buescher’s) one of the most naturally talented road-course racers I’ve been around,” Keselowski said, as reported by The Athletic.
“He doesn’t care to accept that, but it’s true from the get-go he just has a natural knack and a feel for a car on road courses that reminds me of a Tony Stewart or somebody of that nature, and if his career path had taken him that route, he’d be a top-of-the-line road-course racer right now in IMSA or IndyCar or something like that,” Keselowski added.
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Chris Buescher learned road course racing in a horrible place
The RFK driver’s past in the Texas Motor Speedway paled a major role in making him the impressive road course racer he is. But it wasn’t the best place for him to learn the racing style, but it was a blessing in disguise as it helped him think outside the box.
The infield track in the TMS has a corner that the Fortd driver describes as a ramp on the interstate, which made it very hard to make the correct turn while racing. Going into Indy, a flat track, demands the same out-of-the-box thinking from the driver.
“There was a corner, it was the equivalent of getting on an on-ramp on an interstate, and the apex basically being getting to the end of the on-ramp and making a U-turn to go down the interstate the wrong direction. The interesting part is it was a horrible place to know real road racing, but it certainly made you think outside the box in a lot of different ways,” the No:17 driver said.
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