I also take issue w/ Jenna Fryer’s article where she states “His only Cup victory came in a last-lap crash at Talladega in April, when he hooked the rear of Carl Edwards’ car to start an accident that sent Edwards sailing into the safety fence. That brought attention and new opportunities for Keselowski, but also may have created a monster.”

Ummm….Uncle Carl can drive, but Dega ‘08 was a bonehead move trying to block BK…not a hook! Maybe she has short term memory loss. Kinda like I said above of Denny’s “rookie” block on Martin in Fontana.

BTW TC and Journo, these are the best articles…a little spice!

And should the fact that Brad is running for 2nd in the points somehow make him untouchable? The 20 car is racing for 5th in the owner points, but that didn’t stop Brad from turning him around.

Neither point though changes the fact that Brad continues to cause problems with his fellow competitors. My point was that if he is going to continue driving so aggressively, eventually somebody is going to return the favor. And Denny Hamlin isn’t the only enemy here.

Just to add to the discussion, here is Jenna Fryer’s (AP) take on Brad v. Denny: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=auto&id=4660942

Otherwise, all is well. I know you read the comments which is a good thing. Keep up the good work, and I will continue to follow you. Go Brad. LOL

[quote] Keselowski attempted payback into turn three, but missed. Then in the center of three and four, Brad K. caught Hamlin and laid the bumper to him [/quote]

I dont think he missed and this will show it.

If you watch this video at 2:04 it shows that Brad got into to Denny going into 3 and pushed him up the track. What it looked like to me was that Denny was going to come back down and squeeze Brad down, but Brad hooked him… Just what it looked like to me..Other than that, I 100% agree with ya.

http://www.nascar.com/video/busch/2009/11/14/nns.pho2.high.five.nascar/index.html

Give Kyle & Carl respect on the track. Even though they are cup regulars, they are running the full series after all. A cup regular with six starts? Rough ‘em up & then rough ‘em up some more. That’s the price you pay to play in the Busch series.

How this will carry over to cup in 2010? I don’t know, but Kes will need to cool it next year. He will have to earn respect like every other young driver racing in the cup series does.

I see Justin possibly taking over that 12 cup car by the end of the year next year if BK doesn’t clean up his act some. Penske won’t want to pay for all the wrecked cars!

This is not the Associated Press, nor would I consider what we do here “journalism” (I think TC agrees). This is a blog where we often write unabashed opinion posts. We’re allowed to be selective. Do we have bias in some of our pieces? Sometimes. Do we tell you about the occasional rumor? Sure. Do we talk about the occasional news item? Absolutely. Are we ESPN or Scene Daily? No and frankly we’ve never claimed to be.

If there is one thing I’ve learned in my time doing this, people are going to read what they want to read. I can’t change that. In this case you’re taking your own bias and reading way too into this.

“Notice in Line 3, Hamlin’s TOYOTA got into Kes’s Chevy….now Hamlin didn’t get into Kes…just his Toy. However, in line 5, Kes attempted payback, and in line 6 Brad caught Hamlin and laid the bumper.”

This is at best an argument of semantics.

TC made an observation today. One that frankly many others made this weekend; and one that isn’t being disputed by either of the drivers involved. Keselowski is aggressive. If you’ve watched him you know that’s true. And along the way he’s made some people angry (both in the Cup Series and Nationwide Series). Through this he’s made enemies.

If you want to read any sort of bias into my writing, that is fine. None exists. If you would have rather I said that Denny got into Brad, I can go back and change the post. But what you will realize, is it doesn’t change anything. Hamlin was after all, piloting that TOYOTA. And I never said Brad “wrecked” Denny, you did. The incident went down exactly as I described it, and if your bias towards Brad skewed your perspective, I’m sorry. If you watched the interviews, Brad never even denies that he turned Denny around on purpose. He was upset about getting moved up the track, so he decided to return the favor. This kind of stuff happens all the time. And I don’t blame Brad for doing it, as I would have probably done the same thing.

Also, I’m not taking anyone’s word. I’m not siding with either driver. I actually think they are both a little out of line. Brad has been driving a little over his head lately, and Denny needs to quit whining. And I don’t need to have watched every single lap that Keselowski has run to write about the subject. I know enough drivers and have seen enough racing over the years to know what is going on.

If you want to disagree with anything we write, that is absolutely okay. We aren’t always going to agree with people, and they aren’t always going to agree with us. That is half the fun. In most cases, we are searching for a little spirited discussion about issues. As long as everyone plays nice, we don’t mind getting a little heated. We certainly don’t take it personal, and we hope no one else does either. After all, it is just racing folks.