Brad Keselowski Finally Conquers Daytona!

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After having three victories at Talladega over his career and two victories at the Nashville Superspeedway, Brad Keselowski had an empty void at the Superspeedway's and that void was filled tonight when Brad Keselowski held off Kyle Busch, Joey Logano and a late charging Trevor Bayne to win the Coke Zero 400. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. rounded out the Top 5 but some names in the remainder of the Top 10 are surprising including Clint Bowyer and Michael McDowell, one of which will be named the Motorsports News Source NASCAR Driver of The Week! Many contenders were left with damaged racecars at the end and Tony Stewart, who didn't need to crash but did, is still in the Chase just by the hair of his chinny chin chin.

The Motorsports News Source NASCAR Driver Of The Week

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Running with Giants by Thousand Foot Krutch would certainly be the theme for Michael McDowell so far this season at the Superspeedways being in contention to win in 2 of the last 3 races. McDowell is certainly proving his worth in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and hopefully catching the eyes of some new sponsors. McDowell was able to come from 37th to finish 10th and that is where we made the decision that Michael is the driver of the week with the most moves to a highest finish. McDowell got his first Top 10 since 2014 at Daytona. This is McDowell's first driver of the week honors since one of the first driver of the week from Watkins Glen in 2015. We congratulate McDowell on his Top-10 and Becoming the Newest Driver of the Week!

Results from Daytona

  1. Brad Keselowski
  2. Kyle Busch
  3. Trevor Bayne
  4. Joey Logano
  5. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
  6. Kyle Larson
  7. Austin Dillon
  8. Greg Biffle
  9. Clint Bowyer 
  10. Michael McDowell
  11. Cole Whitt
  12. Casey Mears
  13. AJ Allmendinger
  14. Ryan Blaney
  15. Aric Almirola
  16. David Ragan
  17. Denny Hamlin
  18. Ryan Newman
  19. David Gilliland
  20. Michael Annett
  21. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
  22. Reed Sorenson
  23. Kurt Busch
  24. Bobby Labonte
  25. Carl Edwards
  26. Tony Stewart
  27. Danica Patrick
  28. Matt Kenseth
  29. Martin Truex Jr.
  30. Kasey Kahne
  31. Landon Cassill
  32. Chase Elliott
  33. Matt DiBenedetto
  34. Jamie McMurray
  35. Jimmie Johnson
  36. Paul Menard
  37. Brian Scott
  38. Regan Smith
  39. Kevin Harvick
  40. Chris Buescher

Next Weekend

Don't get to relaxed we head to the newly repaved Kentucky Speedway next weekend for the Quaker State 400 presented by Advance Auto Parts. Brad Keselowski enters yet another track he is really good at and we could see Brad take a grip of the points lead and wins lead with win #4 of the Season. Brad heads to some of his best tracks and I don't think Penske will stop at 100.    

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