Brad Keselowski On Brink Of NASCAR Playoff Elimination

As the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs continue Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway, four drivers are on the brink of elimination from contention, including RFK Racing driver/owner Brad Keselowski.

After the first two races in the opening round, Keselowski finds himself in 14th place and 12 points from the cutoff. The No. 6 driver needs to gain 13 points on Ty Gibbs or Chase Briscoe and seven points on Denny Hamlin to advance to the quarterfinal round.

Keselowski finished third earlier this season in the spring race at Bristol and has three career wins, four Top 5s and three Top 10s at the concrete oval track.

“It’s a great track for us,” Keselowski said of Bristol, per a FOX Sports video. “You don’t want to go there behind. If there’s a track to go behind to, that’s probably a good one for us.”

The 2012 Cup Series champion finds himself on the bubble after finishing 19th at Atlanta Motor Speedway in the first race of the playoffs and 26th at Watkins Glen International this past weekend. Keselowski was involved in a wreck with Joey Logano and William Byron, which saw the No. 24 car hit the guardrail and end up on top of the rear of Keselowski’s car.

Even though Logano triggered the wreck, he expressed his disappointment with NASCAR’s poor job of cleaning up the track after accidents. There were still marbles of tire rubber on the track.

“I needed to check up more, but the track is a complete disaster,” Logano said after the race. “They need to clean it up. … I got up in the marbles, and when I went to turn back left, I had crap all over the tires and I got him into him. It’s still on me, but at the same time, clear the damn track.”