Chris Buescher speechless in post-race interview after losing Kansas by 0.001 seconds

In a NASCAR finish for the ages, Chris Buescher came up a little bit short against Kyle Larson… but not until after he and his crew thought he had won the race.

It was that close.

Larson won by the slimmest margin in NASCAR history: 0.001 seconds. Buescher was understandably left nearly speechless after getting out of his car and getting a quick peek at what had transpired.

“I don’t know what to say right now,” Buescher said on the FOX broadcast. “I haven’t seen the replay other than just a picture. I sure can’t see it in that picture. That just sucks to be that close.”

So, so close. Historically close.

"I don't know what to say right now."- Chris Buescher pic.twitter.com/v38mxXQPaU

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The race finished with an overtime segment after a crash occurred with just seven laps remaining. On the restart Buescher was in the lead position on the outside with Denny Hamlin, with Kyle Larson one row back on the inside with Chase Elliott.

After a lap to confirm a white flag, the race went down to the wire.

Larson went low and found a way to pass Hamlin, getting neck and neck with Buescher. Buescher maintained the lead and tried to block as best he could, but Larson slipped to the outside, then bullied Buescher by rubbing him twice toward the inside of the track as they careened toward the finish line.

Then the confusion, as Buescher was initially flagged the winner before replay review showed Larson had edged him out.

“I still can’t say. I guess tear it apart,” Chris Buescher said. “It was a great finish for us, a really strong day. A lot of speed in this CASTROL Edge Ford Mustang. We really needed that. Needed a win more. I thought we might have had that one. Had a lot of speed there, firing off we were really good. And really all day. Really proud of that and had some good strategy to get us back up there. Tried to cover what I could and gave him half a lane too much, I suppose. But good, hard race right there down to the line. Yeah, just that hurts.”

The race will definitely help Buescher, who entered the day in 14th place in the NASCAR Cup Series standings, sitting on 265 points. The finish on Sunday at the AdventHealth 400 was his second top-five finish of the season.

He’ll be looking for more going forward, though.

“Yeah speed’s good. Wins are better,” Chris Buescher said. “Need to be in that situation again. Need some trophies, need some checkered flags and that’ll put us in a much better spot.”