NASCAR: 5 possible landing spots for Brad Keselowski in 2021

Joe Gibbs Racing

Given the Team Penske vs. Joe Gibbs Racing rivalry and the rivalries that have gone on specifically between Brad Keselowski and some of the drivers who compete for Joe Gibbs’s team, this move almost seems impossible.

But there’s still that 0.001%.

Three of Joe Gibbs Racing’s four drivers are already under contract for the 2021 season and beyond, but the one that isn’t entered the 2020 season on the hot seat. That one driver is Erik Jones.

Jones has not had the best start to the 2020 season, this coming only a few months after he was the team’s only driver who failed to qualify for the 2019 Championship 4.

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He has not advanced past the round of 16 of the playoffs in his two seasons with the team, and since taking over the driving duties of the #20 Toyota ahead of the 2018 season, he has won two races.

As for a teammate comparison, Kyle Busch has won 13 races, Martin Truex Jr. has won 11 races and Denny Hamlin has won seven races.

Christopher Bell has long been seen as the biggest threat to Jones’s future with Joe Gibbs Racing. But Bell hasn’t exactly blown the doors off the Cup Series in his first few races like everybody wanted to believe after coming off of two seasons for the ages in the Xfinity Series.

Would Gibbs really promote Bell from Joe Gibbs Racing-affiliated Leavine Family Racing team instead of retaining Jones if neither driver can perform at a high level throughout the rest of the 2020 season?

If neither driver can perform at a high level throughout the rest of the 2020 season, the most likely option is Jones getting another year with the team.

But if this doesn’t happen, perhaps a “0” will be added to Keselowski’s #2 next year. He is an established driver and a proven veteran, and as we’ve already seen this year, teammate feuds don’t seem to faze Joe Gibbs Racing to any notable extent.

Where will Brad Keselowski end up in the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season? Considering retirement is out of the question and he would be highly unlikely to take a ride with a lower caliber team should he leave Team Penske, he likely won’t end up anywhere outside of these five teams.