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Brad Keselowski causes the final lap crash that ended teammate Joey Logano's chance to win the Daytona 500 and then comments:
“I wanted to make the pass to win the Daytona 500 and it ended up really bad. I don’t feel like I made a mistake, but I can’t drive everybody else’s car. So frustrating.”
Wow, so Joey was supposed to get out of his way and surrender the lead. It wasn't even an attempt to block by Logano, Keselowski simply mis-judged the pull out.
Now there are two facts that need to be mentioned. One, going into the last lap at Daytona, the car in second place has an outstanding opportunity to pass for the win. This has to do with the aerodynamics of high speed racing and the ability of the second place car to use the draft to slingshot around the leader. Two, the leader knows this and can block the attempt, which was what Logano stated to do. But the crash occurred because Keselowski failed to clear Logano's bumper, a misjudgement on his part.
“I wanted to make the pass to win the Daytona 500 and it ended up really bad. I don’t feel like I made a mistake, but I can’t drive everybody else’s car. So frustrating.”
Wow, so Joey was supposed to get out of his way and surrender the lead. It wasn't even an attempt to block by Logano, Keselowski simply mis-judged the pull out.
Now there are two facts that need to be mentioned. One, going into the last lap at Daytona, the car in second place has an outstanding opportunity to pass for the win. This has to do with the aerodynamics of high speed racing and the ability of the second place car to use the draft to slingshot around the leader. Two, the leader knows this and can block the attempt, which was what Logano stated to do. But the crash occurred because Keselowski failed to clear Logano's bumper, a misjudgement on his part.