{"id":7259,"date":"2013-05-05T20:53:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T00:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=7259"},"modified":"2013-05-05T21:40:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T01:40:22","slug":"keselowski-takes-issue-with-ragans-final-restart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/05\/05\/keselowski-takes-issue-with-ragans-final-restart\/","title":{"rendered":"Talladega: Keselowski takes issue with Ragan&#8217;s final restart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7260\" alt=\"bradkeselowski\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/05\/bradkeselowski.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/05\/bradkeselowski.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/05\/bradkeselowski-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/05\/bradkeselowski-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>David Ragan pulled off a upset with help from teammate David Gilliland by winning the Aaron&#8217;s 499 on Sunday but not everyone was happy. Brad Keselowski said he was &#8220;happy as hell a small team won&#8221; but exception with the final restart of the race.<\/p>\n<p>Keselowski, the 2012 series champion, took to twitter to complain about the final restart as Ragan had made his way to victory lane to celebrate his second career win.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>mad as hell about that finish. We were suppose to line up 10th when the 34 switched lanes entering 3 before green. That lane won.BS<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brad Keselowski (@keselowski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keselowski\/status\/331204507277086721\">May 6, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Currently there is has been no video that sheds any light on Keselowski&#8217;s claim. The final restart does not clearly show what happened, so until additional video surfaces it is open for discussion.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S35n20PrJRk\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Martin Truex Jr. tweeted the following message which goes along with what Keselowski had complained about.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Yes @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keselowski\">keselowski<\/a> was supposed to start on outside in front of me. I was 12th 2 was 10th but 34 started in front of me.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Martin Truex Jr. (@MartinTruexJr56) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MartinTruexJr56\/status\/331211090878930945\">May 6, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NASCAR made a statement which said that Keselowski was in the wrong lane on the final restart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The No. 2 car was not in the proper lane for the final restart. So NASCAR had the No. 2 car move into the proper lane &#8211; the No. 34 car was lined up properly all along.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say Keselowski was none too thrilled.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>HaThat&#8217;s laughable. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23Ridiculous\">#Ridiculous<\/a>\u201c@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bigdadron14\">bigdadron14<\/a>: @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keselowski\">keselowski<\/a> I just heard you were in wrong lane from NASCAR.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brad Keselowski (@keselowski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keselowski\/status\/331214206487646208\">May 6, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After a wreck NASCAR often needs a lap or two to reset the field so it is not uncommon for drivers to be lined up incorrectly even with one to go before the green.<\/p>\n<p>Ragan&#8217;s win was the first for Front Row Motorsports who also recorded a second place finish with Gilliland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Ragan pulled off a upset with help from teammate David Gilliland by winning the Aaron&#8217;s 499 on Sunday but not everyone was happy. Brad Keselowski said he was &#8220;happy as hell a small team won&#8221; but exception with the final restart of the race. Keselowski, the 2012 series champion, took to twitter to complain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[87,184],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-7259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-brad-keselowski","9":"tag-david-ragan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7259"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}