Brad Keselowski Clarifies His Plans for COTA Amid Injury Recovery

What’s Happening?

NASCAR driver/owner Brad Keselowski says that he plans to race the entirety of Sunday’s DuraMax Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas, despite his ongoing recovery from an injury suffered this past offseason.

• Questions about Keselowski’s ability to run the grueling 95 lap road course race first circulated last week, with the former Champion telling media that road course ace Joey Hand would be on the sidelines should the No. 6 team need a substitute.
• But, in a response to a fan on social media Friday, Keselowski, referencing the 1996 song The Distance by Cake, implied that after sim testing, X-rays, and kart racing, he plans to tackle the race’s entire distance this weekend.
• Keselowski has not missed a single points race since breaking his femur this past offseason. However, the team owner did miss out on the season-opening Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium, with driver Corey LaJoie entered in RFK’s No. 6.
• With the assistance of a cane, Keselowski made it through the entirety of Daytona Speedweeks, qualifying ninth and finishing fifth, and followed that up with another solid performance at EchoPark Speedway, where, after qualifying fifth, the Michigan native slipped to mid-pack by the end of the race, coming home 17th.

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