— Brad Keselowski (@keselowski) July 26, 2016
This past weekend I flew out to Indianapolis to hang with NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski and his Team Penske crew for the Brickyard 400. We dined together, I rode around IMS on the back of a truck with him (here’s a pretty great pic of my luscious flow), I wandered around his hauler, and sat in the pit crows nest for the race.
When the #2 car pitted for a tire change, I was right there next to them. The whole experience was an unprecedented look at all the hard work that the #2 team puts into a NASCAR.If you followed the BroBible Snapchat on the weekend, you saw the incredible access Team Penske gave BroBible to their race operations.
— brandon wenerd (@brandonwenerd) July 24, 2016
Anyway, I’ll have much, much more about that later on this week.
What you need to know today is the massive Keselowski had on a freshly-paved Watkins Glen track test. His brakes went out right after clocking the fastest lap on the track and he flew into a tire wall. Video of the scary moment of impact at the top of the post.
Here’s what his car looked like:
— Brad Keselowski (@keselowski) July 26, 2016
Keselowski had just turned a session-topping 124.572 mph on his 18th lap of the day, best of the 14 drivers participating on the freshly repaved 2.45-mile road course. But just after registering that speed, the rear brakes on his Team Penske No. 2 Ford failed, sending Keselowski’s car nose-first into the tire-pack barrier in Turn 1 at the end of the long frontstretch.
“Just the pedal went to the floor,” Keselowski said. “It means that you’ve lost brakes on one of the corners. At a track like this, you’re already on the edge. You don’t have any room or margin for something to fail. That’s the way it is.”
— Brad Keselowski (@keselowski) July 26, 2016
— Brad Keselowski (@keselowski) July 26, 2016
