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In case you missed it , StatChat is counting down the days ‘til the 2021 Daytona 500.  Every two days, we will have a new article featuring one of the Top 30 Drivers of 2020.    21 st Place – Chris Buescher – 645 pts   By the Numbers:   8 Top 10s – Before 2020, the most Top 10s that Chris Buescher had in a single season was 4, a feat he accomplished twice (2017 and 2019).  2020 saw him double his career high, getting 8 Top 10s in his first year with Roush Fenway Racing.    1 st Stage Win – Chris Buescher, despite being a one-time race winner, had never won a stage before the 2020 season.  Buescher changed that at the Fall Talladega race, winning Stage One.  While he did win it under caution from a big wreck a few laps earlier, a stage win is a stage win!   0.54% Career Winning % – Out of all active drivers who have won a race, Chris Buescher has the lowest career winning percentage of them all, at 0.54% – or ...

    Denny Hamlin wins a wild one in Talladega. In one of the most controversial finishes in NASCAR history, the double yellow line played a major impact in the finish of another Talladega race.  The entire race was sloppy in the best way possible, as the race set a new track record of 13 cautions, and only two playoff drivers finished in the top 10.     Stage 1 featured one of the messiest starts to a race I have ever seen. NASCAR had planned for a competition caution on lap 25, but NASCAR had three cautions before the competition caution.  The early race wrecks lead playoff favorites Denny Hamlin, and Kevin Harvick to ride around in the back waiting. A late stage incident involving Alex Bowman and Aric Almirola gifted Chris Buescher the stage win.      Stage 2 featured a scary wreck where Kurt Busch went airnorn, riding on the hood of Cole Custer's car. This brought out a short red flag to repair the track's wall. The second stage featured a...