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Irony is Brad Keselowski whining about Matt Kenseth racing him too hard for the win at Richmond last week and then wrecking several cars trying to win the race from six laps down at Talladega one week later.

Irony is Brad Keselowski's quote about "mind boggling" last week and then, this week, talking about how he was racing hard to get back on the lead lap to try to win the race.
 
Any driver out there would have done the same thing if they had the chance. What happened to Brad was not his fault. The same thing happened to JJ. Should he have been up there? No but he had a fast car and nobody had a problem with him being up there until that happened.

Drivers just like to complain, including Brad.
 
Clutch said:
At least when Smoke retires his legacy of hypocracy shall live on through the skill shown by Keselowski at doing just that.
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Exactly. Keselowski is living by the good old fashioned double standard that made Tony Stewart so popular.

Can't blame him, but it doesn't make him an less of an idiot.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Irony is Brad Keselowski whining about Matt Kenseth racing him too hard for the win at Richmond last week and then wrecking several cars trying to win the race from six laps down at Talladega one week later.

Irony is Brad Keselowski's quote about "mind boggling" last week and then, this week, talking about how he was racing hard to get back on the lead lap to try to win the race.
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Yup, Kez is a D-bag
 
PushRodV8 said:
Any driver out there would have done the same thing if they had the chance. What happened to Brad was not his fault. The same thing happened to JJ. Should he have been up there? No but he had a fast car and nobody had a problem with him being up there until that happened.

Drivers just like to complain, including Brad.
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Any driver would not have been doing what Brad was doing. You almost never see a driver more than 2 laps down near the front of the field for a reason.

Sure, what happened to him could happen to anyone as evidenced by the JJ crash. But as a driver I'm sure it's much easier to live with a driver on the same lap as you taking you out than it is if a driver 6 laps behind you takes you out. That's mainly because cars 6 laps down have no business being around cars on the lead lap.
 
beantownkid10 said:
Any driver would not have been doing what Brad was doing. You almost never see a driver more than 2 laps down near the front of the field for a reason.

Sure, what happened to him could happen to anyone as evidenced by the JJ crash. But as a driver I'm sure it's much easier to live with a driver on the same lap as you taking you out than it is if a driver 6 laps behind you takes you out. That's mainly because cars 6 laps down have no business being around cars on the lead lap.
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I'll have to respectfully disagree. If a driver has the chance to get a lap back under green, they are going to do what they have to do to get it back. I'm primarily talking about Talladega and Daytona. Sure you don't see it often but a lot of drivers would if they could.
 
PushRodV8 said:
I'll have to respectfully disagree. If a driver has the chance to get a lap back under green, they are going to do what they have to do to get it back. I'm primarily talking about Talladega and Daytona. Sure you don't see it often but a lot of drivers would if they could.
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No they wouldn't. When you are six laps down you are effectively out of the race and pretty much all drivers understand this. You don't see it often because, you don't get too many idiots often.
 
Brad is aggressive and has the ultimate racers mentality in which if he can race you, he will, no matter what position he is in. I don't really have an issue with him racing upfront as I did with how aggressively he was doing it....switching up lanes and pushing his way to the front is not a good idea especially at RP tracks where the smallest miscalculation can lead to trouble for many.

No matter how you do or do not justify it - a car that was 6 laps down was racing the leaders, spun and took out 5-10 other lead lap cars. Just doesn't sound good.
 
Jeff Gordon: “I just saw the No. 2 (Brad Keselowski) get turned. I had seen him for several laps driving over his head being pretty aggressive I guess trying to get his lap back. I knew he was laps down, but he wasn’t doing anybody any favors, nor himself. Then ultimately that was a wreck. I would like to see the video to know exactly what happened. Somebody might not have given him an inch there, but he was certainly taking probably more than he should have been in the situation he was in,” Gordon said.

Denny Hamlin: “Yeah. I mean, you definitely don’t want to do that. Really there’s no reward to doing anything like that. Really you’ve got to have things line up, and if you’re multiple, multiple laps down, if I were multiple laps down at a superspeedway, I’d probably just hang out behind the pack and hope to not be in a wreck. That would be the only way I could improve my position by the end of the day is hope that the big pack gets in a wreck and guys are taken out and then I can move up the standings that way,” Hamlin said.

“You know, there’s not really a rule or anything about it. Anyone can do anything they want. But typically if you’re racing guys — if guys are racing you really hard that are multiple, multiple laps down, you kind of just wonder why. Anybody can do whatever they want to do.”

http://motorracingscene.com/nscs-keselowski-causes-tempers-to-flare-after-talladega-wreck/
 
mreed said:
Denny Hamlin: “Yeah. I mean, you definitely don’t want to do that. Really there’s no reward to doing anything like that. Really you’ve got to have things line up, and if you’re multiple, multiple laps down, if I were multiple laps down at a superspeedway, I’d probably just hang out behind the pack and hope to not be in a wreck. That would be the only way I could improve my position by the end of the day is hope that the big pack gets in a wreck and guys are taken out and then I can move up the standings that way,” Hamlin said.
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Brad just decided to expedite the process and wreck people on his own. After all, he did manage to jump up from 43rd to 38th, beating four of the cars he managed to wipe out.

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FLRacingFan said:
Brad just decided to expedite the process and wreck people on his own. After all, he did manage to jump up from 43rd to 38th, beating four of the cars he managed to wipe out.

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****** d-bag.
 
With the new package on the cars, they are already relatively unstable at RP tracks. Yesterday, Brad perfectly demonstrated how not to drive the new cars at a plate track.
 
beantownkid10 said:
Any driver would not have been doing what Brad was doing. You almost never see a driver more than 2 laps down near the front of the field for a reason.

Sure, what happened to him could happen to anyone as evidenced by the JJ crash. But as a driver I'm sure it's much easier to live with a driver on the same lap as you taking you out than it is if a driver 6 laps behind you takes you out. That's mainly because cars 6 laps down have no business being around cars on the lead lap.
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Jimmie's right-rear quarter panel and rear bumper were also knocked in and taped up.
 
The way Brad drove was wacky enough but, IMO, the "mind-boggling" part was revealed during his interview. He actually believed that he had a shot at getting back on the lead lap.
 
beantownkid10 said:
No they wouldn't. When you are six laps down you are effectively out of the race and pretty much all drivers understand this. You don't see it often because, you don't get too many idiots often.
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I thought he was only two laps down. For some reason I thought I heard one of the commentators mention he could get a lap back and compete for the win. my bad Bean!
 
mreed said:
Jeff Gordon: “I just saw the No. 2 (Brad Keselowski) get turned. I had seen him for several laps driving over his head being pretty aggressive I guess trying to get his lap back. I knew he was laps down, but he wasn’t doing anybody any favors, nor himself. Then ultimately that was a wreck. I would like to see the video to know exactly what happened. Somebody might not have given him an inch there, but he was certainly taking probably more than he should have been in the situation he was in,” Gordon said.

Denny Hamlin: “Yeah. I mean, you definitely don’t want to do that. Really there’s no reward to doing anything like that. Really you’ve got to have things line up, and if you’re multiple, multiple laps down, if I were multiple laps down at a superspeedway, I’d probably just hang out behind the pack and hope to not be in a wreck. That would be the only way I could improve my position by the end of the day is hope that the big pack gets in a wreck and guys are taken out and then I can move up the standings that way,” Hamlin said.

“You know, there’s not really a rule or anything about it. Anyone can do anything they want. But typically if you’re racing guys — if guys are racing you really hard that are multiple, multiple laps down, you kind of just wonder why. Anybody can do whatever they want to do.”

http://motorracingscene.com/nscs-keselowski-causes-tempers-to-flare-after-talladega-wreck/
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I can't believe I'm about to say this, but...I agree with Jeffy and Denny. I didn't actually get to see that portion of the race, but it's just a matter of common sense, really.

See what you've done, Brad? You've made me join the dark side!
 
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