Why Brad Keselowski can turn poor start to 2025 season around

Brad Keselowski's 2025 season has gotten off to a less than stellar start. 

The 2012 NASCAR Cup Series champion is 33rd in the points standings after four races and has yet to finish inside the top-10 — not exactly indicative of a driver and team with the ability to make a playoff run. 

Keselowski's slow start has been the result of a string of misfortune. Keselowski was still running at the finish of the Daytona 500, though he finished 26th, one lap down. At Atlanta, a crash on Lap 149 relegated him to a 39th-place finish, while another crash at Phoenix on Sunday forced him to finish 33rd. 

Interestingly enough, Keselowski's best finish of the season came at Circuit of the Americas on March 2. Keselowski hasn't been known as a great road course racer in recent years, but with a failing cool suit, he piloted his No. 6 Ford to a 15th-place finish that is his high water mark early in 2025. 

Keselowski's current circumstances are obviously less than ideal at the moment, but that's no reason for the No. 6 team and its fans to give up. 

In every race this season, Keselowski has had some unfortunate circumstance that was completely out of his control occur. He's yet to finish a race this year under ordinary circumstances. 

When Keselowski does eventually finish a race with everything on his car working properly, there's good reason to believe he'll find a good result. His teammate, Chris Buescher, has three top-10 finishes in the first four races, showing that the RFK Racing Fords have plenty of speed under the hood. 

Just one season ago, Keselowski won at Darlington and had a stretch of five top-five finishes over seven races. The No. 6 team has the potential to win a race and start a run on any given weekend, but they haven't been afforded the opportunity to do so in 2025. 

Las Vegas on Sunday is a chance for Keselowski to earn a solid finish and get the No. 6 train back on the tracks. Keselowski is a three-time winner at Las Vegas, and while the track hasn't treated him very well since the advent of the Next-Gen car in 2022, but he did finish fourth in Sin City in the fall of 2023. 

Keselowski's poor start to 2025 is worrying, but there's no reason he can't right the ship in the blink of an eye.