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Brad's final
race for JR Motorsports was full of incident finishing 12th and
breaking a 16-race string of consecutive top ten finishes. He first spun
on lap nine, causing damage to his car, then charged back from 38th place
to move up to 10th as soon as lap 30, before Hamlin ran into him.
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"He spun me out and didn't even tear it up," said Keselowski. "I think it's cool,
I'm alright. I'm ready to move on.
Just wanted to finish up with a stronger run than what we did today. But I put
it in the fence early on in the race and tore the car up and took a bunch of
speed out of it. That was my fault." See
more photos of the final day on our Twitter page
Kyle Busch took the Nationwide
Series championship with his ninth trip to victory lane. Busch held off
a Carl Edwards to win the Ford 300, who finished 1-2 in the final standings.
Brad Keselowski took third place in the Championship.
On
finishing out his career with JR Motorsports at Homestead– "It
has been an amazing year both for me and this No. 88 JR Motorsports team.
I knew we had the potential and ability to get these four wins and top
finishes all season, and it’s been awesome to be able to actually
do it. I can’t thank everyone at JRM enough for all of the countless
hours of hard work that’s been put into this year. You can definitely
tell that it’s been a team effort all around. Even after I made
my announcement a few months back that I would be moving on, nothing
changed. Everyone continued to step up. We all wanted to get more wins
and finish as well as possible at Homestead" RACE
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SPARKS FLY IN ARIZONA
Brad worked hard to stay in contention for p2 in the championship,
but his rival Carl Edwards took the race victory in Phoenix. Brad
raced hard for his fifth position and takes the race for second to
the final race in Homestead, where he drives his final race for JR
Motorsports.
Should he capture the second slot, Keselowski would be the first
series-only regular to finish that high in the standings since
reigning series champion Clint Bowyer (No. 29 Holiday Inn Chevrolet)
did so in 2005. RACE REPORT
KESELOWSKI
AT TEXAS – Brad Keselowski roped in
his 21st top-five finish of the season and 15th consecutive top-10
in Saturday’s O’Reilly Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway
with a fifth-place finish. Driving the No. 88 Degree V12 Chevrolet,
Keselowski raced among the front runners throughout the day, and
even led four laps. RACE REPORT | FULL
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AT
TALLADEGA–: Brad
Keselowski returned to the secne of his amazing debut Cup victory
and achieved a strong top ten finish. At Talladega Superspeedway
Brad was back with James Finch's Phoenix Racing, behind the wheel
of the
#09 Miccosukee Resorts and Gaming Chevy. He qualified low down the
field but ran consistently well throughout the race, running in second
place on several occasions, always in touch with the lead pack.
The race was noteable for a late NASCAR
rule aimed at preventing close drafting on race corners. This meant
that the bump-drafting that has become a feature of restrictor
plate races
was
only possible along straightaways.
AT MEMPHIS –: Brad
Keselowski held off points leader Kyle Busch on the final lap to win
the Kroger On Track For the Cure 250 in a green-white-checker finish
in Saturday's Nationwide Series race at Memphis Motorsports Park.
Keselowski was leading when a caution came out with two laps to go
because Stephen Wallace spun after tangling with Matt Kenseth.
Keselowski held onto the lead through the overtime segment. Busch finished second
and leads Carl Edwards by 215 points in the standings.
Busch was on Keselowski's rear bumper coming out of the final turn.
Keselowski got loose but held on for his fourth Nationwide win of the
year. RACE PREVIEW |
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 Dispite
a chilly evening at Lowe's Motor Speedway during Friday night's Dollar
General 300 Brad Keselowski finished sixth in his 100th career NASCAR
Nationwide Series start behind the wheel of the No. 88 Hellmann's Real
Fan of the Year Chevrolet. The sixth-place finish gave Keselowski top-10
finishes in half of his 100 starts. He now has scored
top-10 finishes in exactly half of his NASCAR Nationwide Series starts.
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AT LOWE'S: Brad Keselowski, driver of the No.
25 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet
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 17-year-old
Chad Finley takes Brad Keselowski Racing first ever pole!
When 17-year-old Chad Finley looked around the famed one-mile
oval of Rockingham Speedway in Rockingham, North Carolina, for the
first time, he never dreamed
that he would be the one leading the field to the green flag for the 2009 ARCA
RE/MAX Series season finale, the ARCA American 200.
"I'm
very grateful for the opportunity presented to me this year with
these guys. Hopefully we can find some sponsorship to carry on
next year. I believe we have showed that we can do it with this
race team, we just need some financial
backing to make it happen." RACE
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CRAZY
IN CALI Keselowski
returned to Auto Club Speedway this weekend and it all came down
to a few wild re-starts: Logano
took the win after passing Keselowski and Edwards on the
restart on Lap 145. On the green/white checker Logano chose the
outside lane for the final green flag, giving the inside position
to Edwards.
Brad
tucked in behind Carl, setting up for a push to the front. Edwards,
however, spun his tires and the two collided. Logano pulled away,
holding off Vickers over the final two laps
JR Motorsports’ Brad Keselowski led four times for 27 laps
and emerged from Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series Copart
300 with a fifth-place finish, his career-best result at Auto Club
Speedway. The No. 88 GoDaddy.com team survived seven cautions
over the race’s final 50 laps and a green-white-checkered finish
before taking the checkered flag. RACE REPORT
KEEPING
COOL IN KANSAS: Brad drove the #25 GoDaddy.com Chevy home in 13th place
in a tough Cup race at Kansas. He led one lap and stayed in close
contention all afternoon, finishing as one of the top three non-chase
drivers in the Price Chopper 400. RACE
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Brad had another solid showing in Saturday's
Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway. Keselowski and the No. 88
Delphi team continued its long streak of consecutive top-five
finishes, with
a third-place finish. Keselowski led twice for seven laps, and now
has seven consecutive top-five finishes. RACE
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Brad
Keselowski, who won at Dover in May driving the No. 88 GoDaddy.com
Chevrolet,
is in
full coil. He’s in third place in the
standings, 96 points behind second-place Carl Edwards (No. 60 Scott’s
Wild Bird Food Ford). The
No. 88 JR Motorsports team returns to Dover International Speedway
as the defending track winner; Keselowski took the lead on a green-white-checkered
restart, passing Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Kyle Busch and Joey
Logano to take the Heluva Good! 200 checker. It was Keselowski’s
first of three wins this season.
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 Brad
was back on track at Richmond International Raceway on Friday night,
and he raced to 4th place after leading for more than 70 mid-race.
Afterwards he said "Man, the car was so awesome on
them short runs! We just needed some yellows - we didn't get any
yellows today. Usually we come to Richmond and it's a lot of action
and cautions. We've been through a lot lately and it's really cool
that we've run as strong as we have. Happy to come out with another
top five." RACE REPORT
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Brad Keselowski had a great qualifying
session at Richmond on Saturday, posting a top ten starting position for his
fourth Sprint Cup outing in the #09 Miccosukee Resorts and Gaming Chevrolet
for Phoenix Racing. Brad was looking confident as previous outings
in
the #09 had resulted
in a 6th place at New Hampshire and of course a big win at Talladega. RACE REPORT
Penske
Racing announced today that Brad Keselowski, one of NASCAR's
rising stars, will compete for the team full-time, beginning
with the
2010 NASCAR season. Keselowski, a 25-year-old native of Rochester
Hills, Mich., will drive the No. 12 Penske Dodge in the NASCAR
Cup Series.
He will
also run a full-season schedule in the 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series,
where he will compete for a championship with the team alongside
Justin Allgaier.
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Brad
Keselowski Hits Jackpot With Iowa Victory;
It was the NASCAR Nationwide Series debut at Iowa Speedway, but
Brad Keselowski resembled a track veteran as he and the No. 88
GoDaddy.com team powered its way
to its second victory of the season in Saturday’s U.S. Cellular
250. Keselowski led four times for 121 laps, but needed a gusty
strategy call by crew chief Tony
Eury Sr., and a stellar pass of Kyle Busch with eight laps to
go to capture his fourth career victory RACE REPORT | PHOTO
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Keslowski stayed on the track during a caution flag late in
the race Saturday, a risk that paid off with his second victory
of the year.
The exciting finish of the US Cellular 250 at Iowa Speedway was
even sweeter for Brad - $75,000 sweeter – thanks
to Nationwide Insurance’s Dash 4 Cash bonus.
Also
congratulations to Brad's brother Brian and the family's K-Automotive
team. Brian swapped the role of driver for crew chief and Michael
McDowell drove the #26 home in eighth place in Saturday's race!
 KESELOWSKI
WINS AT DOVER! – Brad
Keselowski has raced to his first NASCAR Nationwide Series
victory of the season, taking the lead off a restart in the final
laps
at Dover International Speedway. Kyle Busch led most of the
second half of Saturday's race and appeared on the way to his third
win
of the season. But he seemed to have tire trouble off the restart
that came after the caution with seven laps left.
Brad was there to take advantage and the checkered flag, perhaps
taking away some of the sting of failing to qualify for Sunday's Cup
race.
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Pics from Victory
Lane on Twitter
Brad made his fourth start for JR Motorsports at
the one-mile concrete track. In his last three starts for JRM,
Keselowski has an average starting position of 13.3 and an average finish of
5.7 at the 'Monster Mile'. In last season’s fall event, Keselowski
started 12th and finished third. RACE PREVIEW
BRAD'S PROFILE
(NEW)
BRAD INTERVIEW : LOOKING TO THE FUTURE - BRAD TALKS TALLADEGA,
HIS PLANS FOR THIS SEASON AND THE RUMOURS ABOUT 2010 FULL
FRIDAY INTERVIEW
 UPSET
FOR THE AGES – In only his fifth NASCAR Sprint Cup start, Keselowski
scored his first career victory last Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway,
driving the No. 09 Miccosukee Chevrolet to a win in the Aaron’s
499 for independent owner James Finch and Phoenix Racing. Keselowski
became the first Nationwide Series regular to win a Sprint Cup event
since Jamie McMurray accomplished the feat while filling in for Sterling
Marlin at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in the fall of 2002.
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Keselowski’s
partial Cup schedule in 2009 is divided between the No. 25
Hendrick Motorsports team and the No. 09 Phoenix Racing team.
Keselowski
will return to Cup action next week when he attempts to qualify
for the
Southern 500 Presented by GoDaddy.com at Darlington Raceway.
Keselowski heads list of 2008 most popular drivers.
For First time in history fans voted for award on NASCAR.COM.
The most popular driver award wasn't revealed until each series'
season-ending banquet. More than 253,000 votes were cast for
258 drivers in the Nationwide Series, Craftsman Truck Series
and each of NASCAR's six national touring series. Voting began
July 7 and closed for each series as its season ended.
Brad Keselowski, the most popular driver in the Nationwide Series, clearly led
all drivers with 59,300 votes.
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Motorsports' second-year driver Brad Keselowski, who won his
first series pole and first two series events this season and
finished third in the championship, was revealed as the winner
of the NASCAR Nationwide Series' Most Popular Driver Award,
which was established in part via a fan vote on NASCAR.COM.
"Well,
they pulled a surprise on me -- I didn't see that coming," said
Brad. "This [third place] is obviously one of the highlights
of my career and I'm looking forward to another great year in
2009 and hopefully getting two spots higher."
Keselowski
also received a $20,000 check for winning the WIX Filters Lap
Leader Award.
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will drive the last of three races for Penske Racing in 2009 at Miami
this weekend.
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2010 where we'll be keeping you up to date on the Penske #12.
“I am really looking forward to this weekend. We are bringing
a brand new car, which will be pretty cool. Homestead-Miami Speedway
is an awesome track. You can run side-by-side because of the progressive
banking, which is fun for both the drivers as well as the fans.
Running
the last three races in the No. 12 Penske Dodge has really been a success.
It has given us a head start on next year. I have learned a lot about
how we do things at Penske Racing. Coming into a new organization,
half the battle is trying to understand the processes and I think I
have a firm understanding on how and why we do things. I am really
looking forward to the off-season and getting ready to race in Daytona.”
After Talladega: "I was here to win and
I've got no other reason to be here than to win and put these
guys in
victory lane. Holding
your line was the way to do it, and I'm sorry it caused a
wreck and sorry for those that are hurt. But that's just the
situation with the rules and the way it is, and either way,
it was
a great
show, and I hope the fans had fun with it. This is NASCAR
racing at its finest. This was a great show. I really hope
everyone enjoyed it, because I had fun"
"There has to
be some element of danger into it. No different than a football
player. Who doesn't love watching football players hit each other
head on as fast as they can? I think that's how John Madden made
his career, saying boom. That's what the fans want. They want contact.
If we would have ran all race without a single lap of contact everyone
in the media center would have wrote about how boring of a race
it was, and instead we ran one of the best races you could ever
watch on TV with full contact the whole time. Thankfully no one
did get seriously injured. And I do want to emphasize that, I'm
thankful for that. I don't want to wreck anyone, but to say a no
contact sport is fun, I don't buy that. These guys want to see
contact just as much as I want to give it and take it."
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Team boss Dale Earnhardt Jr said:
"We
actually got ourselves a great relationship with GoDaddy. Unilever
has come on board this year with all their brands, Hellmann's,
Ragu. It's pretty exciting. Some sponsors come from other teams.
I don't know, nobody really gives it to you outright, but I take
it as a compliment they've come over to work with us. I was really
excited about the GoDaddy car.
"I think it's crazy looking, the
car is. Different than last year. I made Brad's (Keselowski)
as crazy looking as I could make it. I think it's just like solid
green and orange, so it should get quite a reaction, good and
bad!"
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