{"id":359447,"date":"2025-12-21T09:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T09:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/359447\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T09:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T09:17:16","slug":"keselowski-says-hell-be-ready-for-daytona-despite-broken-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/359447\/","title":{"rendered":"Keselowski Says He\u2019ll Be Ready for Daytona Despite Broken Leg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former NASCAR Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski said he plans to be recovered in time to race in the February Daytona 500 after suffering a broken leg in a skiing accident Thursday.<\/p>\n

According to a release from RFK Racing, the team Keselowski co-owns, he underwent \u201croutine surgery\u201d and is expected to fully recover.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m grateful for the medical team who took great care of me and for the support system around me,\u201d Keselowski said. \u201cMy attention now is fully on recovery. I\u2019m motivated to get back to full strength as quickly as possible and will work relentlessly to be ready for Daytona.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keselowski, 41, has started almost 600 Cup Series races. He won the Cup title in 2012 while driving for Team Penske.<\/p>\n

Repair of the leg prompted Keselowski to respond: \u201cI\u2019m now bionic!\u201d<\/p>\n

Chase Elliott, also a Cup champion, missed several races after breaking a bone in his left leg while snowboarding in March 2023.<\/p>\n

\"Lettermark\"<\/p>\n

Mike Hembree has covered auto racing for numerous media outlets, including USA Today, NASCAR Scene, NBC Sports, The Greenville News and the SPEED Channel. He has been roaming garage areas and pit roads for decades (although the persistent rumor that he covered the first Indianapolis 500 is not true). Winner of numerous motorsports and other media awards, he also has covered virtually every other major sport. He lives near Gaffney, South Carolina and can be convinced to attend Bruce Springsteen concerts if you have tickets.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NASCAR Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski said he plans to be recovered in time to race in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,782,154959,784,1642,634,154958,82],"class_list":["post-359447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-7891bff7-842b-4e42-aeb0-9f63cc6110b8","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-locale-us","tag-nascar","tag-shorttitle-keselowski-aiming-for-daytona-despite-broken-leg","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359447","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=359447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}