HAMPTON, Ga. – Brad Keselowski knows these things can’t be explained. For some reason, his car just seems faster than any other machine on the track. Every move he makes is the right one, even though he’s been driving with a sore left ankle.
This much he does know: When you get on a roll like this, you want to ride it as long as you can.
Keselowski would love to keep it going right through the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
“It’s been an amazing run,” he said at Atlanta Motor Speedway, where he’s preparing for Sunday’s next-to-last event before NASCAR’s 10-race playoff begins. “We’ll just ride the wave and hopefully it works out for us.”
Keselowski has won two of the last four races — and finished second and third in the others. His performance over the last month has virtually locked up at least a wild card in the NASCAR playoff, and it’s even more amazing since he’s done all this after breaking his left ankle during a road course practice.
Some wonder if he’s been able to step up his performance in the top series because he’s skipped the last four Nationwide races, giving his injured ankle more time to
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