Well, I reckon it’s a good thing NASCAR finally did something.<\/p>\n
PublishedMarch 12, 2026 8:10 AM EDT\u2022UpdatedMarch 12, 2026 7:49 AM EDT<\/p>\n
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The smartest driver in the NASCAR<\/a> garage, Brad Keselowski, used to be the most bored driver in the NASCAR garage.\u00a0<\/p>\n And that’s never where you wanna be when you’re at work.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sure, I’m bored all the time, but that’s because I have 12 meetings a week.\u00a0<\/p>\n But that’s not why Brad was bored.\u00a0<\/p>\n No, Brad was bored \u2013 and, frankly, kind of depressed \u2013 because he won so many races, his bosses were forced to stop caring about him for a time. Seriously.\u00a0<\/p>\n Because of the now-defunct playoff format,<\/a> Keselowski used to be cast aside in the middle of a season after winning a few races because he was already locked into the playoffs. That meant the team needed to focus on getting their other drivers into the playoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n And that led to Brad showing up to the track saying, “What am I doing here?”<\/p>\n “I sit in meetings, and they’re like, ‘All right, Brad, uh you don’t get the good engine or the good car this week because someone else in the company isn’t locked in the playoffs, so they get all the good stuff for this week,'” Keselowski said while filling in on Dale Jr.’s podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n “And you’re like, \u2018Oh, okay. I guess that kind of makes sense.\u2019 You found yourself like in the middle of the season, and you’d be showing up at, like, Pocono or whatever, and you’d be like \u2026 what the hell am I doing here?”<\/p>\n NASCAR got it right, but it took a while\u00a0<\/p>\n Well, if this doesn’t officially vindicate all the NASCAR playoff detractors, <\/a>I don’t know what will. This should pretty much end that argument for good.\u00a0<\/p>\n