Thursday morning, Chris Buescher received a phone call from his father, who had questions about what Jack Roush had said about his son in an interview Wednesday night on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “How come you haven’t told me any of this?” he asked. “Because I didn’t know any of this,” Chris responded. “Well, you need to go listen to this.” When Buescher did, he heard Roush, his Xfinity Series team owner, say he is “ready” for the Sprint Cup. Roush said it would be “sooner, rather than later” when the 22-year-old leading the Xfinity points standings with 13 races left would be in a Sprint Cup ride full time. “I stop short of saying it’s 2016, but there is a consideration, discussion going on about the prospect of getting him in a car,” Roush said told Sirius XM host Claire B. Lang. “If not one of my cars, one of the other Ford cars that would be competitive and competing in 2016. He may very well be in one of my Sprint Cup cars. It’s just a matter of sponsorship and business considerations.” Buescher has spent time with one of those Ford teams this years, racing for Front Row Motorsports in six events, most recently a 37th Sunday at Watkins Glen International. In 2015, Buescher has two Xfinity wins and nine top-five finishes, in addition to his 2014 win at Mid-Ohio which he will attempt to defend this weekend.
In an April interview with NASCAR Talk at Texas Motor Speedway, Roush said Buescher winning a championship “would certainly grease the skids for him. He’s two to three years out at the very most.” Roush then left open the possibility of fielding a fourth Sprint Cup car. “We’ve got three Cup cars, so we got another open slot. The 99’s number is not being used right now, and I’d like to put it back on the race track,” Roush said, referring to the number used by Carl Edwards since 2004 before joining Joe Gibbs Racing this season. “We’ll let the 99 have a little air and then we’ll create an opportunity for it as well.”(NBC Sports)(8-14-2015)
