{"id":117482,"date":"2025-08-04T06:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117482\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T06:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:07:08","slug":"ryan-preece-still-optimistic-of-playoff-berth-after-statement-rfk-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117482\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Preece Still Optimistic of Playoff Berth After Statement RFK Result"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-1\" class=\"data-event\">RFK Racing has been hitting its stride this season, with Ryan Preece\u2019s arrival in 2025 giving Brad Keselowski\u2019s team an added spark in the Cup Series. Across 23 starts, the team has stacked up 10 top-five finishes with Preece bagging three of them, Keselowski four, and Buescher three. 28 top-10s also showcase clear momentum. This past week only reinforced that upward trajectory.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-2\" class=\"data-event\">Keselowski and Preece delivered a historic run by placing in the top five in back-to-back races at Indianapolis and Iowa, marking the first time the RFK Racing team has accomplished that feat since 2012.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-3\" class=\"data-event\">At Iowa, while Buescher could only claw his way from a P27 start to finish 22nd, Keselowski and Preece came home third and fifth, after starting from P5 and P33, respectively. A week earlier at Indianapolis, Buescher managed P14, with Keselowski and Preece finishing fifth and fourth, respectively.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-5\" class=\"data-event\">Though <a href=\"https:\/\/thesportsrush.com\/tag\/ryan-preece\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-utm_source=\"article\" data-utm_medium=\"content\" data-utm_campaign=\"link\">Preece<\/a> has yet to lock himself into the playoffs with three regular-season races remaining, he remains optimistic. \u201cUltimately, I look forward to Watkins Glen, Richmond, and Daytona. All three of us can still get in, and it\u2019s going to take a lot of perseverance and a lot of luck, but we have fast race cars, and we can get the job done,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nascar\/news\/what-drivers-said-at-iowa-speedway-after-cup-race-won-by-william-byron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-utm_source=\"article\" data-utm_medium=\"content\" data-utm_campaign=\"link\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-6\" class=\"data-event\">Keselowski echoed that confidence, praising the team\u2019s effort after the race. \u201cGreat run from both of our RFK cars. We obviously want to win, but we are in contention, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-7\" class=\"data-event\">Looking ahead, he added, \u201cWatkins Glen has been good for us. It\u2019s been a good track for me; my teammate won there last year. Just keep putting solid runs on the board, and I feel like this will come to us, and we\u2019ve got some pretty strong<br \/>Ford Mustangs right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-8\" class=\"data-event\">In last year\u2019s race at Watkins Glen, Keselowski had finished 26th, while Buescher found victory lane during the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RFK Racing has been hitting its stride this season, with Ryan Preece\u2019s arrival in 2025 giving Brad Keselowski\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-117482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114969001655249048","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}