Brad Keselowski is again in victory lane.
Keselowski received Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Sequence race at Darlington after Chris Buescher and Tyler Reddick made contact whereas racing for the lead with 11 laps to go.
Reddick obtained to the within of Buescher and pushed Buescher into the wall. That allowed Keselowski to drive previous each of them from third after Reddick and Buescher each slowed due to tire points.
The win is the primary for Keselowski since he was with Staff Penske in 2021. He left Penske after that season to hitch Roush Fenway Racing as a minority proprietor.
The primary season on the renamed Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing was tough. Keselowski completed twenty fourth within the factors standings and had only one top-five end. The staff made a leap in 2023 as Keselowski had seven prime fives and completed eighth within the factors standings. However he carried a 110-race winless streak into Sunday’s race that dated again to the spring race in Talladega three seasons in the past.
Now, he’s assured to be again within the playoffs for a second straight season. That 2022 season was the primary time since 2016 that the 2012 champion had completed exterior the highest 10 in factors.
“When Tyler obtained beneath Chris I knew I had one other shot at it, however they made contact and I could not get by and I am like ‘Ahhh'”, Keselowski stated on Fox after climbing from his automotive. “And [Buescher] will need to have obtained a flat tire, I do not know what occurred. We caught a break. And we have caught sufficient unhealthy breaks for the final 12 months or two it is good to catch an excellent one.”
Ty Gibbs ended up ending second forward of Josh Berry in third and Denny Hamlin in fourth. Buescher wound up thirtieth and forward of Reddick in thirty second. After the race, an indignant Buescher climbed from his automotive to confront and push a seemingly-apologetic Reddick. The 2 drivers had a annoyed dialog that didn’t flip into something extra after the preliminary shove.
“We obtained wrecked,” Buescher stated on Fox. “That one’s clear as day. Don’t want any cameras to inform us.”
The cameras remark is a reference to every week in the past at Kansas, the place Buescher misplaced by inches to Kyle Larson within the closest end in NASCAR historical past. He appeared to be on his method to a win after that agonizing end, however Reddick’s transfer for the win ruined that.
Buescher obtained the lead because of contact between the 2 drivers who began the race on the entrance row. Reddick and Keselowski had been the 2 quickest automobiles all day and restarted on the entrance row after the race’s ultimate warning with lower than 40 laps to go.
Keselowski did all he might to get previous Reddick on the within of the egg-shaped observe and the 2 drivers made contact a number of instances. After they raced for laps with out both driver getting clear, they bumped once more and slowed down sufficient to permit Buescher to sail to the lead on lap 265 of the 293-lap race.
Keselowski pale to 3rd as Reddick saved contact with Buescher and sure had no shot on the win had the 2 drivers not made contact.
“I fully perceive the place he is coming from,” Reddick stated of Buescher. “He is operating the highest, operating his personal race, operating his personal line, maintaining me at bay. I made a very aggressive transfer and hoped I used to be going to clear him and realized I wasn’t going to. I attempted to test up and never slide up into him and … yeah, I want I would not have carried out that, sadly.”
“I fully perceive why he is that mad. He did nothing unsuitable. Simply attempting to win the race and to take myself out, that is one factor, I can reside with that. Simply disillusioned it performed out the best way it did and took him out of the race as nicely. That was not the objective there.”
