Tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Kansas City will get underway on Fox from the Kansas Speedway in racing action that can be live streamed free by clicking this link. Kevin Harvick will be at the front of the pack after setting a track record in the qualifying laps.
"It was 'Freaky Fast' today, so just have to put it all together tomorrow night when it counts," Harvick said after posting a 194.658 mph second lap. More eyes will be on some potentially testy racing tonight though, after feathers were ruffled by Brad Keselowski last week who banged into some cars racing hard despite being out of contention for a victory.
His aggression eventually sparked a 14-car crash.
"You have to think being six laps down you are not going to get back on the lead lap," Johnson, one of the affected drivers, said Friday. "There is an opinion, if you are on the race track you deserve a right to go race regardless how many laps down you are. I'm sure that is probably a smaller percentage of people have that opinion. It's very easy when you are caught up in that wreck is to go, 'Why were you racing? You are six laps down.' It just depends on where you are."
Keselowski disagreed, claiming there was a chance for him to help a teammate. "I'd say in most cases, I probably wouldn't have done it. But in that case, I felt like it was the proper thing to do with having the potential to race the 1 car (Jamie McMurray) and get back in sequence. If we got back in sequence, we had enough speed in our car, with yellows, to have a shot at winning the race. I wasn't ready to give up."
He also addressed Johnson's barbs in classy fashion. "That's his right," Keselowski said.
"We all hold the steering wheel. There's 43 of us out there and we all hold it a little bit differently and make different decisions. It would be quite lame to watch if we all did the same thing and had the same ideas and personas."
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