NASCAR: Winners And Losers From Talladega
By Cole Mentzel
It was a wild ride for every NASCAR driver at Talladega this weekend. Check out a few winners and losers from the Geico 500.
It was one of the craziest NASCAR races of the year and one of the most entertaining ones we’ve seen in the past few seasons. It was simply Talladega. The Geico 500 was surrounded with hype before it even started, as every restrictor plate track usually is, but fans got a little more than they expected on Sunday.
Some of the most bizarre wrecks came in the form of Chris Buescher’s No. 34 car completing a few flips and Matt Kenseth’s No. 20 car flying through the air almost perpendicular to the ground. Then there were the violent hits we saw with every incident or the amount of pileups that occurred.
As with any great restrictor plate race, it was a series of momentum shifts. A few drivers would take advantage of their positioning before falling back, allowing a new group to fly to the front. These waves included Chase Elliott, Matt Kenseth and Trevor Bayne, among others, but there was one driver that stood out the whole day: Brad Keselowski.
The now four-time winner at Talladega solidified his restrictor plate success even further with a well-earned win in a last man standing-type atmosphere. With his win, Keselowski became the fourth driver this season to get to the two-win mark, joining Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards and Kyle Busch.
Take a look at a few winners and losers from Sunday’s action.
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