JAMES BUESCHER QUICK FACTS: No. 30 AccuDoc Solutions Chevrolet Impala Zippo 200
Watkins Glen International August 13, 2011
James Buescher 2011 Season Starts Poles Wins Top-fives Top-10s DNFs 6 0 0 1 3 1
No. 30 AccuDoc Solutions Chevrolet News and Notes
* Road course debut… James Buescher will make his seventh start of the 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) season this weekend at Watkins Glen International. This will mark his first road course race in one of NASCAR’s top-three series.
* Racing around Road America…To gear up for his NNS road course debut, Buescher and his Turner Motorsports teammates, Justin Allgaier, Ricky Carmichael and Reed Sorenson got a chance to drive Mazda sports cars around Road America with road-course ace, Chris Cook. While Mazda cars are very different from the NNS cars, the experience allowed the Turner Motorsports drivers to get a feel for road course racing.
* Race rewind… Buescher will make his return to the seat of the No. 30 Chevy with some Nationwide Series momentum. In his last appearance in the car at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis (LORI) two weeks ago, Buescher wheeled his way to a second-place finish. His series-best finish capped off a weekend of top-three finishes, where he finished third in the ARCA Racing Series race and second in both the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) and NNS races.
* NCWTS notes… Buescher is having a career-year in his full-time pursuit for the NCWTS championship. The 21-year-old has collected 12 top-10 and six top-five finishes, finishing outside the top-10 on only one occasion. He captured one pole award and led 185 laps. He is currently third in the championship point standings, just 19 points out of first and 14 markers behind second-place.
* This week’s Impala… The No. 30 AccuDoc Solutions team will unload chassis TMS-304 this weekend at Watkins Glen International. This is a brand new chassis in the Turner Motorsports stable.
* NNS this season… Buescher has made six NNS starts this season, capturing one top-five and three top-10 finishes. He brought home his career-best finish of second in his last start at LORI.
* Buescher’s Blog… Each week Buescher is in the No. 30 Impala he writes a blog on TheHotLap.com previewing the upcoming Nationwide race and following the race recapping the weekend’s event. You can read his preview blog on Thursdays before the race and his recap on Tuesday following the event.
* Turner Motorsports: In the hunt… In 22 Nationwide Series events in 2011, Turner Motorsports-prepared entries have notched three wins, 19 top-five and 45 top-10 finishes. All three of Turner Motorsports’ championship-contending drivers are inside the top-six in the driver point standings with Sorenson in second, Allgaier in fifth and Jason Leffler in sixth.
Buescher on making his road course debut “I am excited to take on the challenge of a road course. We don’t get the chance to run them in the Trucks, so I am very lucky to get the chance to run one in the No. 30. Watkins Glen is the fastest of the three road courses on the Nationwide schedule, so that adds an extra challenge for us. I have been successful with Stewart Cooper and the No. 30 guys this season and I know once I get the lay of the track down, we will be successful this weekend.”
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