Brad Keselowski didn’t throw a block coming to the end in Sunday’s Cup Sequence YellaWood 500 Talladega Superspeedway, and amongst these shocked was winner Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Keselowski selected to stay on the underside and hoped his drafting assist – Kyle Larson – was sufficient to doubtlessly drag race Stenhouse to the end line. However Stenhouse had a greater run on the skin lane, with assist from William Byron, to make the move and have sufficient to get to the end line first.
The margin of victory was simply 0.006s.
“They have been going to separate me, which is what I might do if I have been them,” Keselowski stated of his determination. “I didn’t really feel like I had a shot to maneuver up in entrance of the No. 47. We didn’t have sufficient smoke with the No. 24 pushing him; he would have simply pushed proper round us and we’d have been swallowed.
“I did what I felt like I wanted to do and bought push from the No. 5, nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient.”
The sector was largely in the identical two-by-two formation coming to the end because it was when the extra time try started. Keselowski selected the underside whereas Stenhouse was on the skin. Larson lined up behind Keselowski whereas Byron was behind Stenhouse. Christopher Bell and Kyle Busch have been within the third row, and Busch was shuffled out on the ultimate lap when nobody went with him to the third lane.
Stenhouse led Keselowski, Byron, and Larson throughout the end line. Erik Jones made it to fifth as Bell completed sixth.
“[I was] very shocked,” Stenhouse stated. “I might say Kyle [Larson] and I are the perfect associates on the market you would have, and Kyle wins loads of races and I do know that he’s in all probability going to assist me out as a lot as he can, so I used to be actually shocked. I used to be ready for the block, and I used to be going to determine whether or not I used to be clear sufficient to get to his inside and get in entrance of the No. 5 or cling a proper and take our momentum with the No. 24.
“Yeah, I used to be tremendous shocked that he didn’t make that right-hand [move].”
As soon as once more, it was one other second-place end for Keselowski on the Alabama superspeedway. Within the spring race, he went for a final-lap transfer on chief Michael McDowell, however contact between the 2 allowed Tyler Reddick to drive by when a crash broke out.
“It’s end for us,” Keselowski stated. “We’ve been knocking on the door of those plate tracks. I hate that we didn’t bust via with a win, however I’m completely happy to be proper there in competition.”
