Michael McDowell clapped back at Brad Keselowski after the latter posted his disdain for road courses.

The NASCAR Cup Series schedule recently featured a bevy of road courses, which saw star Shane Van Giisbergen dominate the field in historic fashion. That said, Keselowski, who has had less-than-desirable finishes this season on road courses, went to social media to express his frustration about how many road courses there are. 

It didn’t take long for McDowell, who has had two top-five finishes on road courses, to hit back at Keselowski’s comments. 

“Brad is one of those guys that when this Next Gen car came, the road course stuff was over for him,” McDowell said on a recent appearance on the ‘Door Bumper Clear’ podcast [h/t on3]. “When it comes to the crowds, if you ask the fans, the fans love road races. They love it.

“Sonoma doesn’t hold 100,000 people or have stands for 100,000 people. That place was packed, and it’s a good crowd, and put on a good show. …I mean, you can’t ask a guy that’s not very good at road courses if he thinks there should be more road courses. It’s like asking me if there should be more Dovers. There shouldn’t be more Dovers.”

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The subject of road courses has been one that many around the sport have been commenting on in recent months. NASCAR legend Richard Petty slammed the inclusion of the road courses in the Cup Series and the current playoff system as it stands. 

Among those who believe there are too many road courses is Denny Hamlin, who mirrored Keselowki’s sentiments on a recent episode of his ‘Actions Detrimental’ podcast. “I’m not a road course fan. I still believe we have too many of them on the schedule,” he said on his show.

“The only reason people loved them was because we had green and white checkered finishes, because people would get wiped out, and it created this excitement. … I just think it was fake news, and we added a bunch to the schedule, we did cut back maybe one this year? But still six is a lot considering that we are NASCAR, we are short track racing, oval racing, full contact type racing.”