Brad Keselowski wants run within the worst approach in Sunday’s Iowa Corn 350 at Iowa Speedway.
The 2012 NASCAR Cup Collection champion enters Sunday’s race nineteenth within the standings and 50 factors out of a Chase berth. If Keselowski have been to overlook the postseason, he’d be doing so in consecutive seasons for the primary time in his profession.
Iowa a giant alternative for Brad Keselowski
However crew chief Jeremy Bullins would not see that 50-point hole, which Keselowski and the No. 6 staff have 4 races to make up, as insurmountable by any stretch. In actual fact, beginning the four-race sprint to the Chase at Iowa is about pretty much as good of a scenario as Keselowski might hope for, on condition that he is completed tenth and third within the two Cup races on the observe and led 68 laps a yr in the past.
“Arguably, it was most likely considered one of our higher races final yr,” Bullins mentioned Wednesday on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “Good stage factors and day total. Hopefully we are able to enhance from what we had final yr, be a bit bit higher and shut the deal.”
Keselowski, who broke his leg within the offseason however has not missed a race this yr, enters the weekend using an 81-race winless drought.
A victory at Iowa on Sunday would not solely be enormous in Keselowski’s quest to make the Chase, but additionally a streak-snapping victory that may function a symbolic finish to his therapeutic course of.
