Since his 2013 arrival, Logano and Keselowski have combined for 24 Cup wins. Now with both races at Daytona in the rear view mirror It’s on to Kentucky on Saturday night.
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Kurt Busch’s team is upset with Joey Logano for what it believes was over-aggressive racing in the final turn of Saturday’s Coke Zero 400 at Daytona.
“I know his next goal will be 200”, Keselowski said.
“There’s a lot of great drivers on these plate races and a lot of variables to put them all together”, Keselowski said. Kyle Busch had nothing on Keselowski and couldn’t even get close enough for a get-out-of-the-way love tap.
The big one in Daytona.
Adding his Xfinity and Camping World Truck Series starts at the track, Keselowski was 0-for-30.
“We could have had a shot at [Keselowski]”, he said. “It’s been one of our worst tracks next to Sonoma”.
“But Daytona is always a big race to have success at. I don’t know what happened to the No. 1 to change lanes as fast as he did from the outside, but we are all dealing with a matter of inches and once that started, it just collected everybody”. Keselowski led Kurt Busch, with Kyle Busch was in third and Logano was fourth.
It was appropriate, though, that it did have drama.
Brad Keselowski is not out to make nice. That’s OK. They have combined for 22 wins in the past 89 races.
Logano, at just 26 years old, has 15 Cup wins in 272 starts, with 13 of the victories coming during his tenure with Team Penske, including the 2015 Daytona 500.
“That was not my race to win”. Denny Hamlin is the most recent Sprint Cup victor at Daytona, winning the Daytona 500 in February.
Winner: Kyle Larson – Larson dodged a bullet when his Ganassi teammate McMurray bounced his Chevrolet off the No. 42 Target vehicle.
Keselowski led a race-high 115 laps then held off Kyle Busch on a two-lap shootout that sent the race into overtime for one additional lap. It took him from a possible top-five finish to 23rd, and he called Logano’s move “an aggressive mistake”. There’s not a chance that he had to win it. “If we get in a position to win it, you bet your ass we’re going to try to do that. It just didn’t work out with [Logano] trying to drive straight through us”, Busch told NBC Sports.
Logano indicated it wasn’t on objective. Or maybe Johnson’s auto got entangled with McMurray’s vehicle. “And as soon as you can just see energy in the field kind of build, I guess that’s what was being discussed”.
“Joey has taken, I think, some undue criticism from my perspective based on some of the things that have happened”.
The chaos ensued during Lap 90 of the NASCAR Sprint Cup auto race after Jamie McMurray moved hard left while speeding around Turn 1, causing him to bang into Kyle Larson, according to ABC. Biffle got out front temporarily on lap 28 and when Keselowski got back out front, Biffle challenged for a few laps before Keselowski retook command of the top spot. RFR’s Greg Biffle won the pole and finished eighth, and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. joined Bayne in the top five with a fifth.
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Penske is used to defending Logano, who was recruited to the team by Keselowski three years ago when Keselowski was unselfish enough to look past a teammate who could match him on the track and saw only a talent who could strengthen the organization.
