With all the talk this season focused on the “BIG THREE” (Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick, & Martin Truex Jr.), we may have overlooked a fourth driver having a big season. Brad Keselowski’s three wins in a row has rocketed him to the top of the playoff standings as the #2 team is peaking just as the playoffs start. Added together, the “QUAD SQUAD” have won 20 of 27 races this year, led almost half of all laps, and accounted for 30 of 55 stage wins. The Squad also won all eight races this season on mile & a half tracks. The four were the finalists last season at Homestead when Martin Truex, Jr. won the championship. Keselowski will attempt to become the first driver since Jimmie Johnson in 2007 to win four races in a row this Saturday at Richmond.
Twenty-six year-old Alon Day, the 2017 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series champion from Israel, will drive the #23 BK Racing entry in the Federated Auto Parts 400 Saturday. Day is the first driver from outside the US to be selected for the NASCAR NEXT program (2016), has previously raced in the Xfinity & Truck Series, and made his Cup Series debut in 2017 at Sonoma. This will be his first attempt at an oval track in Cup.
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