Ford Championship weekend in Homestead-Miami again played host to NASCAR's grand finale. All three National Series would be crowning champions, with the possibility of all three being first-time champions at that.
The first act of the three act weekend was the Camping World Truck Series and the Ford EcoBoost 200. James Buescher entered the weekend as the point leader, hanging to a 15 point advantage on rookie Ty Dillon. Buescher, racing for team owner and father-in-law Steve Turner, was looking for his first title in just his fourth full season.
Buescher had dominated the year, winning the most races (four) and leading the points the final four weeks. Except Dillon wasn't about to let Buescher have an easy clinching race, entering the final race of the season with hopes of becoming the second Dillon to win the CWTS title in as many years. Older brother Austin had won it the year before.
For much of the event Buescher was in firm control of his destiny, ahead of Dillon on track and keeping his point lead. As the race wound down however, business picked up and the No. 3 Bass Pro Shops team played their hand, making the necessary adjustments to move Dillon up in the field and more importantly, ahead of Buescher.
With two laps to go he was running second when fellow rookie Kyle Larsen made a bold move to his inside in turn three. The two made contact and hit the wall ending both of their nights and Dillon's championship run. At the time, he would have been within one point of Buescher as they ran on the track.
Dillon instead finished 25th while Buescher came home 13th and won the championship. Afterwards, though disappointed, Dillon noted that he was at peace with that occurred because his team had given it everything they had in trying to win the championship in their first year together. He'll be back in 2013 to try again.
But ...
What if Ty Dillon doesn't wreck at Homestead while racing Kyle Larsen, does he overtake and beat James Buescher for the championship?
@Talon64 As long as the race goes caution-free, then Buescher probably would've slipped back enough for Ty to take it.
@JorgeMondacaFOX No
@HMPPhoto I think he was reaching for straws and going for broke! Like wouldn't have caught Buescher!
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