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quarta-feira, 8 de junho de 2016

NASCAR on NBC podcast, Episode XXII: Brad Keselowski

After a hard-fought and controversial third-place rally Monday at Pocono Raceway, Brad Keselowski joined the NASCAR on NBC podcast and set the record straight on his team’s penalty.
“I would say that if I was NASCAR, I would have done something,” said Keselowski, whose team was ruled to have made an improper body modification on a pit stop. “To clear that up, I would say I would have done something not because the damage was impactful, but because you have to draw the line somewhere.
“I would kind of equate it to holding (in football). Did it impact the play or the race? Absolutely not. Was it wrong? Yes. … The other reason why I probably would draw an equivalence to holding is there’s probably holding on every play. You have to draw the line somewhere. If I’m NASCAR, I agree with them drawing the line. I, of course, hate that it was us. But they have to set a line.”
In a wide-ranging conversation, the 2012 Sprint Cup champion also offered perspective on joining the Sprint Cup Drivers Council this year.
“Every driver has a role of trying to make sure their sport stays relevant beyond themselves,” he said. “When I think of the Drivers Council, it doesn’t have a mission statement, but if I was to try to create a mission statement, one of the first things I’d think of putting in that mission statement is we are going to do things for the sport that probably won’t help it in our time in it as drivers.
“And that’s so hard to do because we get caught up thinking small term of ‘What can we do better tomorrow?’ But the big stuff is, ‘Where are we going to be in 10 years?’ So the council gives us a format to have these really big conversations to find solutions.”
Keselowski also discussed:
–The Team Penske philosophy of building speed through incremental gains and how difficult it is to strike the balance between patience and faith while trying to stay ahead of a playing surface that changes every week;
–His view of journalism in NASCAR;
–Why Sprint Cup cars also could be considered Transformers.
–How he helped influence the Sprint All-Star Race format and his surprise at some of his peers’ reaction (“There were a number of people that didn’t embrace the format and ran like they didn’t embrace the format, and that blew me out of the water”).
–His beginnings in the Greater Detroit area and how training in his dad’s race shop taught him life lessons (“it’s inherent to that community that your work ethic must be at a very high level.”).
You can listen to the podcast by clicking below or download and subscribe to it on iTunes. The free subscription will provide automatic downloads of new episodes to your smartphone. It also is available on Stitcher.

Here are time cues for easy referencing while listening to the episode:

quinta-feira, 28 de abril de 2016

Brad Keselowski Racing taps Austin Cindric, Theriault for pair of Truck races

Brad Keselowski Racing has announced two different three-driver lineups for upcoming races in the Camping World Truck Series.

In addition to regular drivers Daniel Hemric (No. 19) and Tyler Reddick (No. 29), BKR will field a third truck, the No. 2, at Dover International Speedway on May 13 and Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 20.

At Dover, the truck will be piloted by Austin Cindric and at Charlotte by Austin Theriault. Both have a history with BKR.

Cindric, 17, drove two races for the team in 2015, at Martinsville Speedway and Phoenix International Raceway. Theriault, 22, has competed in 10 races, the most recent being the season opener at Daytona where he finished 27th following a crash.

In 2015, Theriault drove in eight of the first 18 races before a back injury in a hard crash at Las Vegas Motor Speedway sidelined him until the finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

The May 13 race will be Cindric’s first time to visit Dover in any series.

“A track called the ‘Monster Mile’ shouldn’t be taken lightly,” Cindric said in a press release. “They tell me that the two truck races that I was able to do last year at Martinsville and Phoenix were difficult tracks to figure out, and I believe Dover will be the same. As I haven’t been able to test, I’ve been watching as much video as possible while reaching out to as many people as I can to pick their brain about what it takes to be fast at Dover. I’m just going in with no expectations, trying to absorb as much information as possible and have fun with it.”

Theriault, who has two top fives in his career, will go into Charlotte with a completely different mindset.

“I was really proud of the effort at Daytona and how strong our performance was, and I feel like Charlotte won’t be any different,” Theriault said in the press release. “I’m going there with the expectation to win. I know we will have a strong Ford F-150 race truck at Charlotte and we plan to perform well, just like we did earlier this year at Daytona. At the end of the day, we want to win, and we have all the resources here at BKR to do just that at Charlotte.”

The Camping World Truck Series returns to action next weekend at Kansas Speedway.