KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — One year ago, Chris Buescher was beaten by Kyle Larson at Kansas Speedway by the blink of the eye.
Less than a blink of an eye.
The official margin of victory for the spring race at the track was 0.001 seconds, the closest in NASCAR Cup Series history, and nobody has forgotten it. Not the way that Larson came slinging around the outside of Turns 3 and 4, nor how they were nose-to-nose at the wire, nor how broadcasters thought that Buescher had held him off for the win.
“Certainly at that moment, thought we got it just by my eye,” Buescher recalled this week.