Umscheid Race Services Live, Interactive Updates from Thunderhill Raceway, 3/31/2012

March 30, 2012

The racing action at Thunderhill Raceway is starting to heat up as the weather gets warmer in Central Texas. You should try to make it out to the track this Saturday and enjoy the nine feature events on tap.

But if you can’t make it, please join me, Nick Holt, for the Umscheid Race Services Live, Interactive Updates from the 3/8-mile, d-shaped oval. I will be going live at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, 3/31/12, and will try my best to bring you all the racing action as it happens.

Feel free to make comments and ask questions during the evening, but there will be a delay between the time you post and the time it shows up. That’s because I have to approve all posts and sometimes I just get too busy to get all of them approved.

To get started, click the large icon below.

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Umscheid Race Services Live, Interactive Updates from Houston Motorsports Park, 3/24/2012

March 22, 2012

The Umscheid Race Services Live, Interactive Updates from Houston Motorsports Park are set to go live at 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 24, 2012.

You will want to be at the track to be part of the excitement that can only be experienced in person, but if you absolutely can’t make it, I will do my best to capture as much of the racing action as I can.

You will be able to make comments and ask questions during the updates, but keep in mind that not all posts will be shown. Sometimes I get very busy just trying to keep up with all the action and don’t get to approve the posts right away.

To get started, click the large icon below.

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Texan James Buescher gets “peeled” by the “Onion” to start the “Big One” at Daytona

February 14, 2009


James Buescher, the eighteen year-old Plano, Texas, driver who is making a splash (I know it rhymes with crash, but we’ll get to that later) in the upper echelons of stock car racing, had a great run going in the NextEra Energy Resources 250 NASCAR trucks race at Daytona on Friday, but due to an unfortunate racing incident ended up in the middle of the “big one” to finish disappointing 25th.



James Buescher

That wreck - involving nine trucks - took out defending truck champion Johnny Benson and rookie Ricky Carmichael, a former motocross star who was making his NASCAR debut.

On lap 48, Buescher, who won the ARCA race at Daytona last Saturday, had a good head of steam up and made an outside move on the race leader Ron Hornaday, Jr., but eventual race-winner Todd Bodine appeared to clip the left rear of Buescher’s International Maxx Force Diesel Ford 150. Buescher then ran into Hornaday Jr.’s truck and spun out of control, causing a chain reaction that took out Johnny Benson, Carmichael and Johnny Sauter, among others.

At the post-race press conference Buescher explained: “I just got a run to the outside of Hornaday and was trying to get around him to go try to lead a lap early on. They said he (Bodine) hit me. I don’t really know what happened, but started spinning and took a lick in the door and a lot of smoke.”

Tough luck for the youngster making his first Daytona NASCAR Truck Series start.

by Nick Holt
Photo courtesy of autoracingdaily.com

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