{"id":11111,"date":"2013-12-13T19:21:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T00:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=11111"},"modified":"2013-12-13T19:23:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T00:23:41","slug":"james-buescher-joins-rab-racing-to-run-full-nationwide-series-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/12\/13\/james-buescher-joins-rab-racing-to-run-full-nationwide-series-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"James Buescher joins RAB Racing, to run full Nationwide Series schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_11112\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11112\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/12\/jamesbuescher.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/12\/jamesbuescher.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/12\/jamesbuescher-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nJames Buescher has been released from his contract at Turner Scott Motorsports freeing the 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion to join RAB Racing.<\/p>\n<p>Buescher will join RAB Racing where he will compete full-time in the Nationwide Series.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Buescher finished third in the truck series standings winning at Michigan and Iowa and netting four top-5 finishes and 14 finishes inside the top-10.<\/p>\n<p>Both RAB Racing and Turner Scott field Nationwide Series teams but Buescher chose to join RAB Racing due to its ties with Toyota.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of reasons to make this move,\u201d said Buescher on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio\u2019s\u00a0<i>Sirius XM Speedway<\/i>, \u201cbut the support RAB Racing gets from Toyota was the biggest factor in my decision. The opportunity arose for me to sign a new, multi-year Nationwide Series deal with RAB Racing, with a better path to a potential Sprint Cup Series ride than I\u2019ve ever had before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turner Scott Motorsports is owned in part by Buescher\u2019s father-in-law, Steve Turner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas it complicated? Yes and no,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard when you\u2019re tied-in with family, but everyone knew it was coming sooner or later. Turner Scott Motorsports does not have a Sprint Cup Series team, and everyone knows that my ultimate goal is to be a Cup Series driver one day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone is fine with this decision and agrees it\u2019s the best opportunity for me to take the next step in my career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Buescher will have Chris Rice on top of the pitbox for the 2014 season. In 2013, Rice lead the No. 99 Toyota Camry to two poles, two top-5 finishes, and six top-10 finishes.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday Alex Bowman, driver of the No. 99 car last season, tested for BK Racing in a Sprint Cup Series car. Neither side has announced plans for 2014 yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Buescher has been released from his contract at Turner Scott Motorsports freeing the 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion to join RAB Racing. Buescher will join RAB Racing where he will compete full-time in the Nationwide Series. Last season Buescher finished third in the truck series standings winning at Michigan and Iowa and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[786,14,788],"tags":[281,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-11111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar-topstory","8":"category-xfinity","9":"category-news","10":"tag-james-buescher","11":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11111"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}