{"id":225082,"date":"2025-10-19T17:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/225082\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T17:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:53:09","slug":"keselowski-shares-thoughtful-theory-on-nascars-big-debate-motorsport-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/225082\/","title":{"rendered":"Keselowski shares thoughtful theory on NASCAR’s big debate – Motorsport – Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR star Brad Keselowski<\/a> wants to see the sport return to a full 36-race championship format. It comes as Dale Earnhardt Jr. warned a JGR star not to get in the way of his NASCAR title contenders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Keselowski was speaking ahead of Sunday’s race at Talladega Superspeedway, with the 2012 NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series champion launching into a passionate, detailed speech about why he believes a return to a championship format would be better than the current playoff system.<\/p>\n

Keselowski’s main reasoning for wanting the change is that he believes the playoff format \u2014 which he doesn’t hide his dislike for<\/a> \u2014 has diluted the product of the racing.<\/p>\n

In a lengthy speech to the media, Keselowski said, “The sport is really interesting with how it perceives itself. It’s one of the sports that has the most noticeable negative feedback loop.<\/p>\n

“That said, it’s also a squeaky-wheel-gets-the-grease sport where if somebody’s not squeaking, things don’t ever change. The 36 format has had such a loud drum beat as of late because I think most of the industry is realizing it’s probably the best for the sport.<\/p>\n

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“There’s a number of reasons for that, but (it’s) also because the sport has kind of revealed itself to be heavily influenced by its own spin, so to speak. So I suspect that drum beat will get just louder from more and more voices.”<\/p>\n

Keselowski continued: “Ultimately, I do think that the 36-race season format is what’s best for the sport. It’s not my decision. It’ll come down to the France family making that decision, and I respect that.<\/p>\n

“They own the sport, and they have every right to make that decision.<\/p>\n

“But if you look at this sport holistically, NASCAR was built on the concept of races connected with a championship \u2014 and it has shifted to a sport that is now a championship connected by races.<\/p>\n

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“Inherently, that removes some of the big-event feel that I think made NASCAR so special in decades past.”<\/p>\n

He then concluded his speech: “We need 38 big events.<\/p>\n

“That’s what this sport needs to endure for generations to come, and the best opportunity for that is in a season-long format that is a series of races connected by a championship, rather than a championship connected by a series of races.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR star Brad Keselowski wants to see the sport return to a full 36-race championship format. It comes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[16600,49,48,2332,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-225082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-brad-keselowski","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-motorsport-section","12":"tag-nascar","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}