{"id":835618,"date":"2023-08-27T03:50:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T03:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=835618"},"modified":"2023-09-06T03:18:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T03:18:19","slug":"buescher-wins-at-daytona-eliminating-elliott-and-helping-wallace-land-final-nascar-playoff-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/motorsports\/buescher-wins-at-daytona-eliminating-elliott-and-helping-wallace-land-final-nascar-playoff-berth","title":{"rendered":"Buescher wins at Daytona, eliminating Elliott and helping Wallace land final NASCAR playoff berth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) &#8212; Chris Buescher has become a NASCAR title contender in less than a month. Buescher won the Cup Series regular-season finale at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday night, eliminating fan favorite Chase Elliott from playoff contention and sending Bubba Wallace into the postseason. Buescher and teammate Brad Keselowski finished 1-2 for RFK Racing, the first for the team since 2014. It was Buescher&#8217;s third victory since late July, making him a championship favorite no one could have expected five weeks ago. &#8220;We certainly got momentum on our side right now,&#8221; Buescher said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) &#8212; Chris Buescher has become a NASCAR title contender in less than a month. Buescher won the Cup Series regular-season finale at Daytona International Speedway on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[373],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorsports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}