🇺🇸 Chris Buescher

Chris Buescher is an elite professional stock car racer competing full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series for RFK Racing, driving the No. 17 Ford Mustang Dark Horse. His career spans thirteen seasons from 2011 onward across multiple NASCAR championships, with over 400 starts to his credit. He is the 2015 NASCAR Xfinity Series champion.[1]

Buescher has raced primarily on oval circuits throughout his career, with the bulk of his 337 Cup Series starts coming on ovals and occasional appearances on road and street courses. In the Cup Series since 2018, he has recorded six wins and twenty-one podiums. His 2015 Xfinity campaign produced two wins and five podiums while finishing seventh in the championship standings. Earlier, he won the Xfinity title that year, and also recorded a win in four ARCA Menards Series starts in 2013. His career total stands at ten wins across 416 starts.[2]

In the Cup Series field, Buescher runs regularly against established professionals of comparable standing, finishing consistently ahead of elite-level drivers. He has beaten Denny Hamlin, an elite professional with 343 Cup starts, on 107 occasions, and Christopher Bell, another elite professional and 2017 Truck Series champion with 263 Cup starts, 103 times. Chase Elliott, a Platinum-graded established professional and two-time Cup champion, remains a regular and closely matched competitor, as does Daniel Suárez, the 2016 Xfinity champion.