Chris Buescher goes charging after Tyler Reddick on pit road after late wreck at Darlington
Chris Buescher confronted Tyler Reddick on pit road following Sunday’s Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway.
Buescher was enraged with Reddick after the two made contact with each other in the closing laps of the race, ending his chances at getting his first win of the season.
Reddick and Buescher, running P1 and P2 at the time, were forced to head to pit road after sustaining damage to their racecars. Brad Keselowski, Buescher’s RFK Racing teammate, inherited the lead and held on to break a 110-race winless streak.
Reddick was apologetic during the heated exchange on pit road, repeatedly saying, “I f***** up.” Buescher pointed to the win sticker on Reddick’s No. 45 Toyota, saying, “We don’t have that sticker on our door right now. I don’t have that sticker on my door. This means more. I need you to be better. We’ve raced each other fine for so long.”
Chris Buescher upset with Tyler Reddick after on-track incident at Darlington
Buescher further explained what set him off while speaking with Jamie Little of FOX Sports after the race.
“We got wrecked,” Buescher said. “That one’s clear as day. … We’ve raced each other clean through the years, try to be respectful about it and we get used up. It’s just something that you know is not gonna work. Just really pissed off about it right now. We had a chance to win another one. … Felt we got used up and he knows he messed up, he said it. But it doesn’t change anything for us.
“I told him he’s got a win sticker on the door and we’re still trying to find ours. We get used up like that and it takes away those opportunities — that’s tough. That’s two weeks in a row we’ve had a shot to win races and one I’m gonna live in my head forever on what I would have done differently, and this one here — I need someone else to be more mature about it.”
As Buescher mentioned, the finish to last Sunday’s race at Kansas, in which Larson edged him out by 0.001 second, was still fresh in his mind. That’s now back-to-back close calls for Buescher, who has yet to clinch his spot in the playoffs.