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Johnson, Keselowski test one another

Jimmie Johnson's prerace strategy for this weekend is simple - plant a seed of doubt in the mind of opponent Brad Keselowski. As the clock ticks closer to Sunday's season finale, which will decide the Sprint Cup championship, Johnson knows from experience that moments of uncertainty will start to flood Keselowski's mind. After competing for multiple NASCAR titles -...

Keselowski wins first NASCAR title

Brad Keselowski has won his first NASCAR championship. The 28-year-old Detroit native clinched the Sprint Cup title Sunday when fellow title contender Jimmie Johnson pulled out of the season finale because of a parts failure. The championship is the first for longtime NASCAR owner Roger Penske and gives outgoing car manufacturer Dodge the sweetest of parting gifts. All Keselowski...

The decision: Keselowski, Johnson taking their talents to South Beach with title on the line

  The coronation day for Brad Keselowski has arrived. Or has it? After 400 miles Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the racing world will know for sure. One thing is certain: Five-time champion Jimmie Johnson, who's overcome a deficit in the season finale before, won't go quietly. Keselowski and Johnson will decide the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series title Sunday in the season...

Brad Keselowski wins NASCAR Sprint Cup title

Brad Keselowski captured his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series title on Sunday.The title came in his third full season, though he had competed in parts of two seasons before he began driving the No. 2 Dodge at Penske Racing. In 2010, Keselowski won the NASCAR Nationwide Series title. That same year he struggled at the Sprint Cup level producing just two finishes inside the top ten....

NASCAR: Championship far from decided as Brad Keselowski struggles at Homestead

Many would consider the 20-point cushion for Brad Keselowski enough to go ahead and crown him the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup champion. And with the way he’s running this year and turning in strong finishes at tracks he usually struggles at, why wouldn’t you etch his name on the trophy? He’s been clutch and running like a champion each week. All he has to do Sunday is finish 17th...

Dodge says goodbye to NASCAR - at least for now

Dodge is preparing to say goodbye to NASCAR. And if everything goes as expected Sunday, it will be one heck of a going-away party. Dodge driver Brad Keselowski entered the Sprint Cup season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway with a 20-point lead over five-time champion Jimmie Johnson. Penske Racing's rising star has to finish 15th or better to clinch his first championship...

CUP: Toughness Defines Keselowski's Chase

Brad Keselowski's worst finish in the Chase is 11th...

Keselowski vs. Johnson – The Championship Ends At Homestead

After 35 races and thousands of miles traveled along this great country, 400 miles stands in the way of two drivers: Penske’s Brad Keselowski and Hendrick’s Jimmie Johnson from a Sprint Cup title.  The Ford Ecoboost 400 will have another championship decided there and the track provides for great racing and multiple grooves.  Keselowski, the Sprint Cup points leader by 20 over...

Joey Logano's crash in practice puts Brad Keselowski on front row

  During Friday's time trials at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Joey Logano knocked Sprint Cup championship contender Brad Keselowski off the front row for Sunday's Ford EcoBoost 400. During Saturday's first practice session, Logano restored Keselowski to the front of the field -- without meaning to -- giving third-place qualifier Keselowski a possible leg up in his title...

Keselowski’s victory lap, Shannon Spake, and more

On Paper Brad Keselowski Nascar Championship Victory Race Brad Keselowski can’t lose, can he? It doesn’t matter what anyone else does if he finishes in the top 15. The race today at Homestead is really one big victory lap for the Miller Lite driver. He even fittingly gets to start on the front row after original pole-setter Joey Logano wrecked during practice on Saturday. After...

Keselowski will start finale from front of field

Brad Keselowski got some help on the last day of practice for NASCAR's Sprint Cup season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Pole sitter Joey Logano was involved in a three-car accident during the first of two practice sessions Saturday, switched to a backup car and will start from the rear of the field Sunday. That will move Keselowski, who had qualified third, to the front...

Jimmie Johnson's race, Chase end prematurely

HOMESTEAD, Fla. Jimmie Johnson's chase of a sixth Sprint Cup title, so seemingly close to becoming reality just a week earlier, ended abruptly and prematurely on Sunday. Johnson, the overall Cup points leader entering the previous week's race at Phoenix, ran strong but suffered a late pit-road penalty and then an early exit in the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway...

Possible milestones

If he should win the Sprint Cup title, Brad Keselowski would be the first Michigan native to do so. Keselowski, 28, also would be the first Cup champion born after Richard Petty won his seventh and final championship (1979) and after Dale Earnhardt Sr. won his first (1980). If Ty Dillon, 20, were to overcome a 12-point deficit to James Buescher and win the NASCAR Camping World Truck...

Ryan Blaney Crashes, Finishes 28th in Season Finale

Ryan Blaney finished 28th at Homestead-Miami Speedway in the No. 29 Cooper Standard RAM on Friday evening. The Brad Keselowski Racing (BKR) driver had a tough ending to the night in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) season finale.     Blaney qualified in the 16th position on Friday afternoon pacing the 1.5 mile oval in 32.472 seconds or 166.297 M.P.H. to...

End of Season NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Point Standings

Source: Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images North America Brad Keselowski won his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series title. A mistake on pit road coupled with a parts failure dropped him to third in the standings. RANK DRIVER POINTS BEHIND STARTS POLES WINS TOP 5 TOP 10 1 Brad Keselowski 2400 Leader 36 0 5 13 23 2 Clint Bowyer 2361 -39 36 0 3 10 23 3 Jimmie Johnson 2360 -40...
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