{"id":397451,"date":"2026-01-09T03:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/397451\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T03:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:05:11","slug":"brad-keselowski-injury-update-nascar-star-wont-run-in-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/397451\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Keselowski injury update: NASCAR star won’t run in Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Corey LaJoie will take Brad Keselowski’s place in the No. 6 RFK Racing Ford for the Feb. 1 NASCAR Clash event that unofficially kicks off the 2026 Cup Series season.<\/p>\n

The move comes as Keselowski continues his recovery from a broken leg<\/a> suffered on a family ski trip in December.<\/p>\n

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“I’m happy for Corey to get this opportunity. I’m laser focused on being ready for Daytona,” Keselowski said in a statement<\/a> announcing the move.<\/p>\n

Keselowski, 41, spoke at length with Fox Sports<\/a> about the decision to have LaJoie run the Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium and his recovery from a broken femur that also caused some nerve damage.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t want to rush back,” Keselowski told Fox Sports. “The team and I made the decision together that if all the rehab went absolutely perfect, we’d be ready like, literally, the day of the Clash.<\/p>\n

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“And that seemed super foolish and didn’t give us any time to do any testing on myself or anything like that.”<\/p>\n

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Drivers with the most NASCAR Cup Series wins all time<\/p>\n

2. David Pearson, 105 career wins.<\/p>\n

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2. David Pearson, 105 career wins.<\/p>\n

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3. Jeff Gordon, 93 career wins.<\/p>\n

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6. (tie) Jimmie Johnson, 83 career wins<\/p>\n

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8. Dale Earnhardt, 76 career wins.<\/p>\n

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9. Kyle Busch, 63 career wins (through June 4, 2023).<\/p>\n

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10 (tie). Denny Hamlin, 60 career wins (through Oct. 12, 2025).<\/p>\n

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10 (tie). Kevin Harvick, 60 career wins.<\/p>\n

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12. Rusty Wallace, 55 career wins.<\/p>\n

Keselowski is determined to return for the Dayton 500, which is slated to run this year on Feb. 15.<\/p>\n

The 2012 Cup Series champion called it “kind of a freak accident” \u2212 he slipped and fell on ice getting out of his car.<\/p>\n

“I just fell perfectly on a spot that broke my leg,” Keselowski told Fox Sports. “I wish it was some cooler story than that, like jumping or doing something on the slopes.<\/p>\n

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“I think everybody thinks I did it on the slopes, which sounds a lot cooler than the actual story I have, but it just was a freak accident.”<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Brad Keselowski injury update, latest on recovery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corey LaJoie will take Brad Keselowski’s place in the No. 6 RFK Racing Ford for the Feb. 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[16600,167978,49,48,45147,3140,36805,154338,634,167977,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-397451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-brad-keselowski","9":"tag-broken-femur","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-corey-lajoie","13":"tag-cup-series","14":"tag-fox-sports","15":"tag-keselowski","16":"tag-nascar","17":"tag-nascar-clash","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397451","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=397451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}