5 Lessons Learned: Keselowski Up, JJ and Dale Jr. Down

By Jared Turner 1. Brad Keselowski Is Your Title Favorite With six of 36 races in the history books, Brad Keselowski is the early favorite to capture the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series title. Despite being outperformed at times by points leader Kyle Larson, Keselowski is this year’s only multi-race winner. The Team Penske driver leads the series in top-five finishes with five, and is tied with teammate Joey Logano in top-10 finishes. Of the top five drivers in the standings, Keselowski, in fourth, in the only past champion of NASCAR’s premier series. While it’s certainly a long season, it’s obvious…

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Brad Keselowski ends Ford drought with Martinsville victory

April 2, 2017 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service MARTINSVILLE, Va. – In Sunday’s STP 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway, everything worked – but nothing more than Brad Keselowski’s race-winning No. 2 Ford. Yes, that’s right, a Ford. The car maker found Victory Lane at the .526-mile short track for the first time since Oct. 20, 2002, when Kurt Busch won at NASCAR’s oldest and smallest premier series track in a Roush Fenway Racing Ford. Keselowski and runner-up Kyle Busch swapped the lead during the final 64-lap green-flag run, with Busch taking the point on Lap 444…

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Chase Elliott wins hotly contested Martinsville Truck race

April 1, 2017 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service MARTINSVILLE, Va. – Polesitter Chase Elliott held off defending NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Johnny Sauter after a restart with 12 laps left and pulled away to win Saturday’s Alpha Energy Solutions 250 at Martinsville Speedway by 1.865 seconds. Elliott grabbed the lead from third-place finisher Christopher Bell on Lap 234, when Bell’s Toyota tangled with Austin Cindric’s Ford through Turns 1 and 2. Bell lost the top spot, and Sauter charged past into the second position before NASCAR threw the 10th and final caution of the race. The decisive move, however,…

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