Brad Keselowski will now finish 30th or worse in five of the last seven #NASCAR races.
It's like the bad luck of 2025 is starting to creep back in all over again.
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#NASCAR picked pit stalls for the #5 and #78 because they failed inspection 2x. Stuck them in #12 and #13, in the middle of the longest uninterrupted run of pit stalls.
#5 has #51 ahead of him, #78 behind, but harder to get a lap down here.
The blue dotted lines bracket the middle half of all reasonable practice times for the entire field
The dotted green line shows the average of the field, with all outliers removed.
Host of drivers going to the rear for the O'Reilly race:
Cole Custer, Josh Bilicki, Dean Thompson, Blaine Perkins, Patrick Emerling and Nathan Byrd (unapproved adjustments), Joey Gase (engine), Dexter Bean (backup car).
One thing I have learned today @PoconoRaceway is that the media pay a lot more attention to stats than most drivers do.
The best drivers are laser focused on what matters and that is usually what is right in front of them.
To our (the media) amusement, a number of drivers were surprised that the summer bracket competition thing is again a thing this year.
The idea of winning a million bucks meets with unanimous approval, though.
@dennyhamlin clarifies that pit road lines @PoconoRaceway were re-done because they were inconsistent. In some segments, you could go 3 mph over w/out penalty and in others, you had to be under pit road speed.
In practice, I'm seeing a sharper fall off in the first 6-8 laps, followed by a slower fall off for the rest of the lap.
This is the laptime vs. lap number graph for William Byron.
Another practice note: Look at when each driver sets their best lap. Some did it on their first couple laps; others came in for adjustments and made their cars better. #NASCAR
Tyler Reddick is out in #NASCAR practice group 1. Why out why the points leader has such an awful qualifying metric and what qualifying metric is:
buildingspeed.org/2026/06/12…