"I look forward to working with Chris Buescher again" - Ryan Preece makes feelings known about joining Brad Keselowski's RFK for 2025

With Stewart-Haas Racing shutting operations this year, Ryan Preece is set to join Brad Keselowski’s RFK Racing for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season. The Connecticut-born driver expressed his feelings about working with Chris Buescher again during a recent SiriusXM NASCAR podcast.

Despite running six seasons in the Cup Series, Preece has been unable to win a race to date. The 34-year-old has managed to secure just 14 Top 10 finishes and one pole position in his Cup Series career. Despite an overall disappointing 2024 season, Preece has managed to secure a driver for next year with Keselowski’s RFK Racing, a move that has received flak from NASCAR fans.

Joining alongside Keselowski and Buescher, Preece will likely be hoping for better results with the multiple championship title-winning team next year. He is set to drive the #60 Ford Mustang Dark Horse race car for the team. Ahead of his debut with RFK, Preece shared his feelings about working again with the 2015 Xfinity Series champion Buescher.

"Doing my part, which is strong work ethic, being present and doing all those things, but the side of him, which is going to be building that team around you and giving you the opportunity to succeed that that's something, you know, it's a race car driver that you really want to hear," Preece expressed.

"one thing that I look forward to. So there's a lot of things that I look forward to, which is working with Chris again. We certainly had a lot of a lot of fun. We were working together in 2019 and I feel like there's a lot of stuff outside of the race car that we're gonna have. We're going to enjoy doing so," he added.

An audio clip of the above-mentioned conversation from the podcast was shared by SiriusXM NASCAR on Instagram. Here's a look at the post, captioned:

"📈 @RyanPreece_ is extremely optimistic ahead of his first year with @RFKracing next season and is looking at a "return to that dynasty that they once were."⁣

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"He’s got the talent" - RFK Racing's co-owner Brad Keselowski praised Ryan Preece for his latent abilities during press announcement

Ryan Preece is yet to win a race in the Cup Series. Despite the odds, RFK Racing's co-owner Brad Keselowski praised the 34-year-old racer from Connecticut for his latent abilities during the press announcement.

"My commitment is taking someone like Ryan and putting him in that spot where he can win in and with the right resources, with the right team around him and the right support structure, and that’s what I see out of Ryan," Keselowski said (via NASCAR).

"He’s got the talent, he’s got the work ethic, and that’s our commitment back to him is to put him in the right situation with the right equipment, the right people, and the right infrastructure to be successful. And I think we can do just that," he added.

As for the 2024 season, Preece finished 26th in the Drivers' championship with just five Top 10s and one Top 5 finish in 36 races.