{"id":2555,"date":"2012-08-05T10:44:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2012-08-05T10:44:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T14:44:40","slug":"brad-keselowski-wants-choice-in-next-teammate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/08\/05\/brad-keselowski-wants-choice-in-next-teammate\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Keselowski wants choice in next teammate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brad Keselowski is hoping he can lend a hand in finding the next driver of the No. 22 Penske car. Keselowski is a three time winner this season at the Sprint Cup level.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“I hope that we can secure a teammate that is an elite talent that I can work with — and certainly some of that responsibility is mine to communicate,” Keselowski said in an interview following qualifying.<\/p>\n

Keselowski is hoping to be more then just a driver at Penske Racing.<\/p>\n

“I told Roger from Day One, when I came to Penske Racing, I didn’t want to be just a driver,” Keselowski said. “I wanted to be part of a team and part of making Penske Racing as strong as possible.”<\/p>\n

Sam Hornish Jr. will continue to drive the No. 22 car for the “foreseable future” according to Penske. There is some uncertainty going forward as there were a couple of races in which Hornish was already scheduled to drive in a third car for the team.<\/p>\n

“I think Kurt and I, last year, had a great relationship that showed on-track results,” Keselowski said. “There are a lot of times when I look back and think what a good pairing we were together and wish that some things would have worked out a little bit differently. But that is the past and things are where they are.”<\/p>\n

Should Hornish not stay in the No. 22 for next season there are plenty of options available.<\/p>\n

Photo Source: Sean Gardner\/Getty Images North America<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brad Keselowski is hoping he can lend a hand in finding the next driver of the No. 22 Penske car. Keselowski is a three time winner this season at the Sprint Cup level. “I hope that we can secure a teammate that is an elite talent that I can work with — and certainly some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[87,507],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brad-keselowski","9":"tag-penske-racing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}