Keselowski and his RFK Racing Ford team-mate Chris Buescher led a mixed 74 of the 212 laps, with Keselowski main probably the most with 42, and he gained the primary stage.
However they misplaced their stranglehold on the entrance of the sector with 4 laps remaining, when Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet pairing Kyle Busch and Austin Dillon drafted previous their Mustangs, with extra Chevys pushing them from behind.
Because the race went into time beyond regulation following a late warning, Buescher, Keselowski and William Byron mixed to ram Dillon right into a spin that triggered a multi-car wreck and despatched the race right into a second green-white-checker try.
Buescher and Keselowski had been additionally pressured to pit for gas, and Keselowski grew to become caught up within the last-lap wreck simply after the white flag, and was labeled twenty second, whereas Buescher prevented the chaos to complete fourth.
“That’s the factor about [restrictor] plate racing, you make all these plans,” stated Keselowski on FOX’s RaceHub present on Tuesday. “And you recognize what they are saying about plans: If you happen to make plans, that’s the way you make God chuckle. Every part simply fell aside actually shortly.
“The 8 automobile [Busch] did an awesome job working with the three [Dillon] to get outdoors of us and I used to be nonetheless considering we had been going to be OK, then we had that spin with just some laps to go.
“Total, a extremely robust exhibiting for us at RFK, we had two nice vehicles, Chris and I led a bunch of laps, and I believed we did a extremely good job of controlling the race. I simply want we coulda managed the end.
“But it surely was good to return out of there within the high 10 in factors [thanks to his stage victory], for certain.”
Jimmie Johnson, Legacy Motor Membership, Carvana Chevrolet Camaro, Noah Gragson, Legacy Motor Membership, Wendy’s Chevrolet Camaro, Harrison Burton, Wooden Brothers Racing, Motorcraft/DEX Imaging Ford Mustang, Austin Dillon, Richard Childress Racing, Bass Professional Outlets Membership Chevrolet Camaro and William Byron, Hendrick Motorsports, RaptorTough.com Chevrolet Camaro wreck
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After the race, Dillon had put the blame squarely on Keselowski for inflicting the penultimate wreck of the race.
“The 6 automobile [Keselowski] simply drove via the 24 [Byron], and that’s simply what he does,” stated Dillon. “His automobile is simply adequate to the place he can simply drive via who he must and push them out of the way in which, or wreck them. That’s the desperation that they’re in proper now.”
Byron stated of the crash: “I received into the three and we simply received off heart someway and I wrecked him. As soon as he received off heart, I attempted to again up however I had the 6 at the back of me making an attempt to push as properly. That was unlucky.”
