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James Buescher Driver Diary: NASCAR's Teenage Talent Off To A Decent Start

James Buescher · Tuesday March 17, 2009

I was pretty excited at the beginning of the week at Daytona. We started out pretty good in practice. We didn’t have a lot of speed on the speed chart, but the truck was handling really well. We figured if it would handle good on old tires, we’d be good for the race. We also figured when we got around the other trucks, we’d be a lot faster because of the draft. We mostly focused on getting the balance of the truck a lot better. I think we did that.

We qualified okay and the truck was really good in the race. It drove right up to the front. I passed Kyle Busch for the lead one time and then the caution came out, which wasn’t all bad because we were about to have to do green flag pit stops in the next few laps.

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