Brad Keselowski has been excellent in NASCAR’s annual All-Star race – whether on the traditional Charlotte 1.5-miler, or the half-mile Bristol, Tenn. high banks or even the North Wilkesboro, N.C. short track.
His three career runner-up finishes– just missing on the big check in 2012, 2016 and 2021 – joins retired NASCAR drivers Sterling Marlin and Ken Schrader for most all-time for a driver without a win. His 183 career laps led is sixth most all-time.
Should the 2012 NASCAR Cup Series champion not claim the trophy Sunday in his 18th try, it would mark the most starts by a driver without a win.
Keselowski’s No. 6 Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing’s Mustang was ninth fastest in opening practice at Dover, where he won a regular season race in in 2012 and has finished top-10 (12 times) in nearly half his 27 NASCAR Cup Series starts. He also earned a 2009 victory in the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race here. So he’s hoping the All-Star Dover debut may be just the answer.
“Last year [at North Wilkesboro] we sat on the pole and led a lot of the race and kind of became unglued there in the middle part, but that was really nice,” Keselowski said of his . “I feel like Charlotte and Bristol and Texas I’ve gotten second places but not the win. I’d like to change that. I’d like a million dollars.
“It’s one [race] that has kind of eluded me.”
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