“We have to clean that up and recognize our potential.” Brad Keselowski said these words last weekend in Talladega. The RFK Racing driver/owner projected some pretty chances of breaking a year-long winless streak. After all, Keselowski ranks second on Talladega’s all-time wins list with 6 victories at the 2.66-mile oval. But all that hope melted away by a lap 42 crash on the 2.66-mile oval. Similarly, Keselowski’s fortune on a 1.5-mile Fort Worth oval track was no better, requiring more ‘clean-up.’

Texas Motor Speedway has become a formidable track, especially after its 2017 configuration. With two different ends presenting a brain-racking challenge to Cup Series drivers, it can be tricky. Yet it was misery as usual for Brad Keselowski, who continued his trend of poor finishes in the 2025 season.

Brad Keselowski tells another tragic story

Ever since the 2025 season began, Brad Keselowski has been on a drab streak. The days when the 2012 Cup Series champion used to pick up top-fives like berries in a garden seem too far to grasp. Wheeling his No. 6 Ford, Keselowski started 34th in the 2025 Daytona 500, his worst career start. Given the heightened wildcard nature of the race, hope still remained. But with every passing weekend, a huge chunk of that aspiration falls apart. Keselowski started 30th at the Würth 400 presented by Liqui Moly, his worst start so far into a Cup Series season. To add a cherry on top, the treacherous nature of the Texas track made things worse. While Turns 1 and 2 are wider and more flattened, Turns 3 and 4 are of the older configuration. A bump between Turns 3 and 4 adds to the sketchiness of the track.

This inconsistent build of the track threw a wrench in the plans of several contenders. They included Kyle Busch, Bubba Wallace, Michael McDowell, and, of course, Brad Keselowski. With 20 laps to go, Keselowski’s No. 6 got out of the groove and spun out. He was in 12th place at the time, and Cole Custer and Kyle Busch slid into the side of Keselowski’s car, followed by Austin Dillon. The team owner explained what happened: “I was trying too hard and busted my butt. Looked pretty dumb. It’s just the cars are right on the bump-stops, and you’re driving the hell out of them. When you step over, you step over, and that’s what I did.”

12 races in the 2025 Cup Series season are done and dusted, and Brad Keselowski is yet to fetch a top-ten finish. According to NASCAR data analyst Daniel Cespedes, his average finish of 26.27 is not just the worst start of his career. It is the worst 10-race stretch he’s had over 17 years of Cup racing. Reuniting with Jeremy Bullins, his former Team Penske crew chief, has so far proved fruitless. Yet Keselowski still holds on to hope, as he admitted last weekend in Talladega. He said, “Hopefully, soon we’ll recognize the two steps forward with all the changes we made, but we definitely took a step backward in the process. I feel like that can strike at any moment, and we just need to trust our process.”

While Brad Keselowski fell prey to his constant miserable streak, his driver got caught up in aggression. The resulting emotions were no less charged with frustration.

Trending

1

Dale Earnhardt’s Imitator Thrown Under the Bus at Texas as He Takes Out Innocent Drivers as Collateral

2

“Where the F—Are You?” – Amy Earnhardt’s Furious Hunt for Dale Jr. After Vegas Goes Off the Rails

3

Kyle Larson Fails to Carry the Momentum After an Upset Loss Against Sprint Car Giant

4

Denny Hamlin Drops Blueprint for Kyle Busch, Trying to Salvage the RCR Man’s Career

5

Big One: Joey Logano’s Lies Exposed in Texas as He Pins All Blame on Others Two Weeks in a Row

Another weekend, another Hocevar fallout

If there is anybody in the NASCAR Cup Series synonymous with a reckless reputation, it is Carson Hocevar. The No. 77 Spire Motorsports driver is only in his sophomore season. And yet what he has wrought in the year-and-a-half that has passed by still ticks off his peers. Last year in Nashville, he intentionally spun out Harrison Burton. What is more, he keeps being aggressive. Most of the drivers in Texas, including Brad Keselowski, fell prey to the ravages of the track itself. However, Ryan Preece, driver of the No. 60 RFK Racing Ford, got caught in one of Hocevar’s storms.

On lap 236, Hocevar got loose coming off turn 2, hit Preece into the wall. Hocevar nearly went airborne from the crash after also collecting Cody Ware in the 9th caution of the race. Ryan Preece, who has gathered 3 top-ten finishes this season, fumed at his rival post-race. “He just seems to be proving me right over and over again. [I had a] really fast, really fast race car. … I just got ran into the fence by somebody that has no respect for his equipment and any other driver out there. He’ll have his day.”

Yet Carson Hocevar tried to explain himself after he had a serious right rear issue. He said his action was unintended: “I just got in there and started to slide up, and he got to the right rear, and I was already crossing somebody’s wake and got tight from him on my door and the car in front. I’m out of the gas and half wheel, and I just didn’t predict to be in that spot, to panic or to have to change directions…You have to predict it. And I just didn’t predict that he would get there. That’s on me.”

While a rival ruined Ryan Preece’s day, Brad Keselowski faced his streak of bad luck. Let us see what the team owner can do to reverse his trend of poor finishes.