LONG POND, Pa./ARNews/August 7, 2011" Brad Keselowskis confront to the relax of the Sprint Cup field: œI can beat you by means of a broken leg.
And he did.
Staying out on the path on old tires beneath a caution by means of 21 laps absent in Sundays rain-interrupted Good Sam RV 500 at Pocono Raceway, Keselowski pulled absent as of Kyle Busch following a restart on Lap 185 of 200 to safe his next victory of the season"despite heavy by means of a broken absent ankle.
Keselowski, who was upset in a firm collide throughout testing Wednesday at Road Atlanta, reserved Busch at bay in excess of the final 10 laps. With Sundays victory"the come into view of his career"Keselowskis fortunes quick a dramatic twist by means of respect to the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.
Having cracked the top 20, Keselowski is in place to maintain the primary wild-card spot, existence form the merely intended in positions 11-20 by means of additional supposed one victory. Keselowski foliage Pocono 18th in the standings, attention gained inquisitiveness positions Sunday.
Kyle Busch came house second, followed by Kurt Busch, Jimmie Johnson and Ryan Newman. Jeff Gordon, Carl Edwards, Greg Biffle, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Paul Menard finished the top 10.
Keselowski downplayed his gutsy effort.
œI no hero, Keselowski said. œThe heroes are the guys so as to died in Afghanistan petroleum weekend. I desire to use occasion thinking concerning them. Theyre my inspiration for petroleum weekend, the belongings so as to persons guys do.
œIm glad so as to we might win today, but persons are the heroes. I now drive racecars for a living.
Kurt Busch, Keselowskis teammate at Penske Racing, gave the intended of the No. 2 Dodge a small additional credit supposed that.
œIts astonishing come again? the corpse can do, Busch said. œFor him to go from side to side so as to wreck petroleum melody and get rear on his horse correct absent and discover success, essential merely leaving to create Brad Keselowski a improved racer.
Just history the halfway tip of the race, rain casement to fall, lightly at primary and after that in torrents. After the cars crossed the stripe on pit street to total Lap 124, NASCAR stopped the contest by means of polesitter Joey Logano in the lead, hoping the deluge counting continue.
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That didnt happen. The rain abated, and the contest resumed following a stoppage of 1 hour, 40 minutes, 46 seconds, dashing Loganos hopes of claiming a next career victory the similar way he got his primary one (New Hampshire in June 2009)"with an help as of the elements.
Keselowski and Kurt Busch got to the front of the field by means of a contrarian strategy so as to corporation not any to the pits for petroleum and tires correct preceding to the stoppage. When the cars in front of not any came to the pits beneath caution following the resumption, Keselowski and Busch now elevated to positions 1 and 2, respectively, for the restart on Lap 132. That turned the contest around.
œEverybodys receiving additional violent by means of completely calls, supposed Paul Wolfe, Keselowskis crew chief. œMy engineers seemed attractive sure so as to we now leaving to go rear green. We be acquainted with its leaving to get strong-minded similar to so as to to get us in the Chase. I hysterics it was leaving to get a name similar to nowadays to get one more win to get us closer to so as to opportunity.
œJust tell em, Paul, obtainable got balls petroleum big, Keselowski chimed in.
Before the lengthy red-flag period, Joe Gibbs Racing cars had dominated the race. Logano had set the pace for 39 laps. Denny Hamlin, a wizard at Pocono as of the day he set eyes on the path as a rookie in 2006, had led a race-high 65 laps to so as to point, and Kyle Busch chipped in by means of six laps led for a side sum of 110 of the primary 124.
Immediately preceding to the rain delay, Logano had withstood the persistent efforts of Johnson to go by him for the lead. But for the vagaries of nature, so as to might contain person's name a battle for the win, and together drivers raced as if it were.
œWe hysterics the rain was coming, and I was annoying to grasp off the 48 (Johnson), Logano said. œI saw him coming"and pending attractive hard. My spotter supposed it was raining attractive firm in (Turn) 3, so I inappropriately to grasp him off from side to side the Tunnel (Turn) there.
œIt was attractive exciting present pending to the end, at what time my crew chief, Zippy (Greg Zipadelli), told me concerning five laps (before) the caution came out so as to the 48 was infectious me, and the rain was coming. I now reserved on digging, and finally it now in progress downpouring in (Turn 3).
Neither Logano nor Hamlin was a issue at the end. Logano had to create an unscheduled pit discontinue on Lap 189 and over 26th. Hamlins No. 11 crew had problem by means of lug mad on his correct back tire on his previous pit stop, and Hamlin was buried in the pack on the restart and over 15th.
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