KANSAS CITY, Kan. — 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, actually.
The official margin of victory for the spring race at the track was 0.001 second (one-thousandth of a second, or a millisecond) for the closest finish in NASCAR Cup Series history, and nobody has forgotten it.
Not the way that Larson came slinging around the outside of the final two turns on the 1.5-mile quad oval in the Hendrick Motorsports No. 5 Chevrolet. Not how the noses of both cars seemed to reach the finish line at the same time. And not how broadcasters thought that Buescher in the RFK Racing No. 17 Ford had held off the 2021 Cup Series champion for the overtime win.
“Certainly at that moment, thought we got it, just by my eye,” Buescher recalled this week. “I was probably a little biased.”