Last year he won the Nationwide (nee Busch) Series title. This year he’s recorded five DNFs in 14 races in NASCAR’s second-tier series.
Keselowski recorded six wins in the Nationwide Series one year ago on his way to that title. But even with five DNFs, Keselowski has six top-5s and nine top-10 finishes this season.
On Saturday night Keselowski was running in the top ten during the STP 300 at Chicagoland. Then his engine blew up.
“It’s been one of them years where we’re catching some bad breaks,” he said after the race.
Keselowski may have been bummed after exiting Chicago on Saturday evening, but on Sunday afternoon in Kansas, I’m sure he forgot about his engine woes on Saturday.
Keselowski runs a lap at Kentucky on Wednesday during the Goodyear tire test in Sparta
By running the final 57 laps on one tank of fuel, Keselowski coasted to victory in the inaugural spring race at Kansas, the STP 400.
“There are some secrets to [saving fuel] and I just maximized them all,” he said post-race. “I had plenty [of fuel] left.”
And for the second race in a row, Keselowski got to be the mean guy in the beer car that held back NASCAR’s most popular driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr., from getting the win.
It’s been nearly three years—a 105 race drought—since Earnhardt Jr. has been in Victory Lane.
“We shouldn’t have run second again. We’ve got to fix some things. We’ve got fast cars so we can be fast.”
And sooner or later Earnhardt Jr. will find himself where Keselowski was on Sunday.
Keselowski went from hero to zero and back all in less than 24 hours. When will Dale Jr. be able to become the Sunday hero again? My money is on the first weekend in July when the Cup Series heads back to Daytona.
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