🇺🇸 James Buescher

James Buescher is a professional stock car racing driver who competed primarily in NASCAR's national series. He raced in the Truck Series and Xfinity Series between 2008 and 2021, primarily on oval circuits. His main team was Turner Motorsports, which fielded him for 57 of his 140 career starts.[1]

Buescher won the 2012 NASCAR Truck Series championship with Turner Motorsports, taking six wins and twelve podiums across 49 starts in that series. In the Xfinity Series, he made 91 starts over seven seasons, scoring one win and four podiums. His career spanned a decade of racing in mixed fields that included both semi-professional entrants and graded professionals. He finished 30th in the Xfinity championship standings in his final indexed season of 2014, and made occasional returns to racing until 2021 before retiring from competition.[2]

Buescher raced regularly against entry-level and established professionals. He was closely matched throughout his career against Mike Bliss, an entry-level professional with nearly 400 NASCAR Xfinity starts, and against Brian Scott, a professional who competed primarily in Xfinity. He finished ahead of multiple elite professionals who came through the national series, including Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano, both of whom went on to compete at NASCAR's top level and who vastly outnumbered him in starts in both Xfinity and the Truck Series.