How Brad Keselowski and the Late Dale Earnhardt Are Cut from the Same Cloth

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You know Brad Keselowski's eyes lit up when he heard that none other than Richard Childress recently compared Keselowski to the late, great Dale Earnhardt.

But was Childress on the mark with his comments?

Asked during the final day of the annual Charlotte Motor Speedway preseason media tour last week if he thought Keselowski's driving style these days was too aggressive in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Childress was blunt in his reply. "No. I don't think he is," Childress told FoxSports.com. "He's a hard driver. I like Brad. ... He's just a hard racer."

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...te-dale-earnhardt-are-cut-from-the-same-cloth
 
Interesting article. Brad does remind me of Big E, but as the writer said, on the track not off.
 
I think you have to win races with your aggressiveness and that makes it a slippery slope. You look like a idiot if you are wrecking yourself and others and ending up on the hook with a DNF. Kez is pretty young and has a long career ahead. With a championship that early he has a good chance for more titles.
 
I love the way Kes races. Makes the racing fun to watch. Same goes for Ky. Busch, can't stand the guy, but man is he fun as hell to watch wheel a car as well.
 
EI2IC said:
I love the way Kes races. Makes the racing fun to watch. Same goes for Ky. Busch, can't stand the guy, but man is he fun as hell to watch wheel a car as well.
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Agreed. he will drive the wheels off anything he drives
 
I like Brad and the way he races. He says some stupid $H!T sometimes, but that's OK, but he is there to race, not to ride around logging laps.
 
Ehh I like finesse drivers more. Respect them more, too.

It's a lot harder and more rewarding making the pass and winning races cleanly.

That train of thought is not to be confused with letting everybody run you over. If people try to mess with you, you'd let him know. I have no problem with that.

It's when an overly aggressive driver bullies his way in there by force. Yeah you might have won but you sure didn't win yourself any favors by doing so.
 
Reck said:
Ehh I like finesse drivers more. Respect them more, too.

It's a lot harder and more rewarding making the pass and winning races cleanly.

That train of thought is not to be confused with letting everybody run you over. If people try to mess with you, you'd let him know. I have no problem with that.

It's when an overly aggressive driver bullies his way in there by force. Yeah you might have won but you sure didn't win yourself any favors by doing so.
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U mad bro?
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Earnhardt fan for life. never approve of comparisons. because there are none valid. the name is used to generate interest. especially at sites such as the bleacher report.

but have to admit I enjoy the way brad races and his candid comments. hated what he did at charlotte. loved the way he raced at texas. looking forward to watching how he writes his legacy in the next decade. I expect it will be a bit off the path of the media/sponsor darlings. or at least I hope so.

jmo
 
DanicaFreak said:
Interesting article. Brad does remind me of Big E, but as the writer said, on the track not off.
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Brad came into Nascar as a boy. Dale was a man and a tough one at that, big difference.
Brad is a racer and it shows he isn't a fighter. LOL
 
Team Penske said:
Brad came into Nascar as a boy. Dale was a man and a tough one at that, big difference.
Brad is a racer and it shows he isn't a fighter. LOL
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In the Athlon Sports 2015 Preview magazine, this subject was put into question. And it said something along the lines of what you just said.

"Here's the difference: Drivers, fearing what Earnhardt would do to them way back when, literally tiptoed around him on the racetrack. They would talk a big game but rarely took action knowing their car could end up in the wall. When your equipment winds up totaled, you know NASCAR won't do anything as an innocent victim and you'd lose a fistfight to Earnhardt after the race - why bother?

Keselowski doesn't quite have the same intimidation factor by comparison. The 42-year-old Matt Kenseth didn't blink in jumping the driver at Charlotte; 43-year-old Jeff Gordon was throwing punches a week later. Turns out Keselowski's physical presence, something we don't talk about much with racecar drivers, is hardly imposing and is in fact a bit of a weakness. He's scrawny, not muscular, and is more the calculating, cerebral type than physically fit. Add in the power of owners like Rick Hendrick, Joe Gibbs, etc, and it feels like Keselowski is not as protected."

I tend to agree with this comparison about Keselowski; I'm not really old enough to know enough about what Dale Earnhardt was like, but I think it's silly when people say that the only reason why people don't like Keselowski is because he wins, when people say stuff like that about people, whether it's Keselowski or Kyle Busch or whoever.

However, I disagree with the point made about owners at the end.
 
Reck said:
This has nothing to do with Gordon. I just like finesse. Not not just in driving, other sports, too.
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Retired drivers ......................................................... oh never mind :rolleyes:;)
 
StandOnIt said:
You know Brad Keselowski's eyes lit up when he heard that none other than Richard Childress recently compared Keselowski to the late, great Dale Earnhardt.

But was Childress on the mark with his comments?

Asked during the final day of the annual Charlotte Motor Speedway preseason media tour last week if he thought Keselowski's driving style these days was too aggressive in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Childress was blunt in his reply. "No. I don't think he is," Childress told FoxSports.com. "He's a hard driver. I like Brad. ... He's just a hard racer."

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...te-dale-earnhardt-are-cut-from-the-same-cloth
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good article. 2 different eras .......but both fall into " luv him or hate him " driver category.
1 exception ....dale sr. had bill jr advantage.
brad don't have that these days.
 
In my opinion trying to compare Dale Sr. and Brad Keselowski on or off the race track is just plain ridiculous. Two completely different driving styles, morals, ethics and personalities. It's like trying to compare John Wayne and Howdy Doody. Both have their good and bad points but are two completely different entities.
 
In my opinion drivers viewed Dale as the Intimidator but also had a fair amount of respect for him.
and Brad is viewed as more of a pain in the a$$ wrecking ball who gets very little respect.:D
Again this is only my opinion
 
racer8 said:
In my opinion drivers viewed Dale as the Intimidator but also had a fair amount of respect for him.
and Brad is viewed as more of a pain in the a$$ wrecking ball who gets very little respect.:D
Again this is only my opinion
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One thing I learned over time is drivers know drivers better than fans know them. Sometimes respect is displayed as fear.
When you see experienced guys like Hamlin and Edwards and Tony put a lot of effort into trying to intimidate newer drivers
it is because they recognize that these guys will be their main competitors very soon.
They are right, Brad already won his championship and Joey is knocking on the door. You may be able to rough them up out of the car, but they are going to kick your ass driving.
So far Hamlin and Edwards are just wannabees.
 
I thank Brad deseved being taken out at St Louis by Carl.
To bad that it was overkill by Edwards.
Still glad that Brad didnt get the checkers though, he was the a**hole instigator imo.
 
Greg said:
I thank Brad deseved being taken out at St Louis by Carl.
To bad that it was overkill by Edwards.
Still glad that Brad didnt get the checkers though, he was the ******* instigator imo.
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Drive to win. 100%
 
Team Penske said:
Drive to win. 100%
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Brad drove through him like a bulldozer, I wanted Carl to feed him the cement as a result. Just a bad place for it though, those narrow straights made the innocent victims and the carnage inevitable.

Still the same I had more sympathy for Carl than Brad at St Louis.
In contrast more for Brad at Talledega and Atlanta.
 
years ago and water under the bridge. Not a good deal for either, it got pretty stupid. Kez was new and hungry, and Carl had been around for a while and had seniority. :biggrin:
 
I really liked Brad through 2012, I wanted JJ to win the chase, but I did believe Brad was more deserving.
He drove his ass off for it and earned it.

I started wondering about his sainty when he spoke of being inspired by a low life like Ray Lewis. Being impressed by garbage indicates a lot of poor judgement. Then he did his persecuted 2013 pouting tour, nobody was ever so violated.

The he flipped over Matt Kenseth racing him hard at Richmond in the spring of 2014. Something Brads going for the wins pride embraces himself. A real can dish but cant take display.
About as bitchy as he could get.

The he done something exponentially worse at Talladega while running six laps down.

Then there was the doochie tirade at Charlotte last fall. One of the worse assbag would somebody please smack me displays I have ever seen. A total complete Barry Bonds a**hole deluxe type of performance. His own momma should have kicked his ass on TV for the stupidity.

Texas didnt even matter to me about who was right or wrong. The low life trend was already a standard and expectation, I just wanted Brad to get roughed up for being an everyday a**hole, not so much for the event itself.

But I will always respect his talent and his driving grit. And I will give him credit for exploding rather than imploding. As in not throwing his team under the bus, I think is the difference between Kyle Busch and Brad. Kyle goes to battling the team internally when it goes wrong, Brad wants to fight the world.
 
almost anybody that makes a mistake at a plate track looks pretty stupid. I don't know who Ray Lewis or Barry Bonds are. I like Carl and Brad, but they got pretty stupid until the ref showed up. Kez and Kenseth had a lot to lose at that time last year in what most will call manufactured drama of the chase playoffs. Kez happened to be in the middle of both of them, this year I bet it will be someone else come chase time.
 
Johali said:
In my opinion trying to compare Dale Sr. and Brad Keselowski on or off the race track is just plain ridiculous. Two completely different driving styles, morals, ethics and personalities. It's like trying to compare John Wayne and Howdy Doody. Both have their good and bad points but are two completely different entities.
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howdy doody had bad points ? :D
 
I wouldn't say they were cut from the same cloth. For one thing, Earnhardt Sr. knew how to act and behave off the track instead of bitching all the damn time like Brad K. did. Brad K was the Worse Champion of NASCAR ever. I still say he has some growing up to do.
 
Johali said:
Yeah. He didn't have an opinion of his own. :D
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But there was this blonde that got into an argument with Howdy.
She told the interruptting ventriloquist to STFU, Howdy Doody was the one she was arguing with.
 
Dale Sr would put you in the wall then after the race and on camera give that little smile and wink and everyone would blame the guy he put in the wall.
Sr did it with a bit finesse and class, Kez doesn't have either.
 
The glaring difference between them is that dale was respected by his peers even if they did not always get along with him.
 
Another article on Brad. I think it is written fairly as it shows his strengths and weaknesses.
Some fans of drivers are so focused on a tree, they can't see the forest. As a Fan of BK I recognize the great racing he brings to the sport and will acknowledge when he has gone a little over board. No hero worship here and his good points are not a blind fold.

http://www.sportingnews.com/nascar/...ff-gordon-fight-matt-kenseth-2015-team-penske
 
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