Chris Buescher scored his first career Sprint Cup Series win in Monday’s rain-delayed Pennsylvania 400 at Pocono Raceway when the race was called due to fog and an approaching storm on lap 138. Buescher battled back from a cut tire under green that put him in the back of the field and opened up the need for pit strategy on a day that every team was forced to race the weather. As a green flag cycle of pit stops was nearing its end, Buescher and his Front Row Motorsports team chose to stay out as fog begin to build around the track hopeful for a stoppage. That stoppage came when spotters no longer could see turn 1. The race was then called after an hour and 20 minute red flag. Brad Keselowski who had been on an off-sequence pit strategy all afternoon, finished second. Regan Smith was third.
The win at Pocono puts Sprint Cup Series rookie Chris Buescher in The Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup if he can make the top 30 in the standings. Currently he is 31st.
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