The entire RFK Racing team had goosebumps on Sunday. But the reasons differed. On one side, Chris Buescher and the No. 17 team made jaws drop with a dominating performance over Shane van Gisbergen. But on the other side, Brad Keselowski left his team on edge – after enduring a spine-chilling wreck. It could have easily turned haywire, but the driver-owner kept mum about the ordeal.

Keselowski followed the unfortunate trend of playoff drivers’ struggles at the Glen. He fell victim to the challenging turns of the road course, even spinning rivals like Denny Hamlin. However, by the end of the race, Keselowski found himself on the receiving end of contact. His spotter recently discussed this frightening incident in detail.

Brad Keselowski’s ordeal could have been worse

Several titillating wrecks have animated NASCAR racetracks this season. From somersaulting cars at Daytona to 200 mph wall crashes at Atlanta, drivers have escaped narrow disaster. This time, Brad Keselowski came under this category on Sunday’s race. As if suffering an early-race speeding penalty and losing a wheel from the pit box were not enough, Keselowski entered the wreck fest. On lap 47, the No. 6 Ford spun out Denny Hamlin’s No. 11 Toyota. But on lap 83, Keselowski could not save his car from severe damage.

With seven laps to go, Joey Logano pushed Brad Keselowski who had William Byron trailing behind. That sent both of the drivers into the wall – with Byron’s right wheel scarily climbing atop Keselowski’s B-post. In a recent ‘Door, Bumper, Clear’ episode, TJ Majors, the No. 6 spotter said his boss was silent after the incident. “Honestly, he didn’t really say anything about it. I mean, he was trying to back up and get out of it, you know. It definitely had to be a weird time there to probably see a car right there.” Luckily, a worse outcome was avoided. “I’m actually really glad that it didn’t hook anything when he got up and it got over the fence a little bit hooked. ‘Cause that would have been much bigger, had it caught a fence or something.”

Brad Keselowski’s car incurred heavy damage after the No. 24 Chevy ground down on it. His spotter recalled a hazy memory the last time he had seen such a dramatic wreck at the Glen. “The last time I have seen somebody leave the park at Watkins Glen was probably like a Busch North race back in…the early 2000s maybe. It could have been the late ’90s as well. But somebody went off inside the track and on top of the esses there. They had a wreck in the esses and somebody hit somebody and they had it ramped up just like that and went to the infield.”

As Majors said, this situation could have been dangerous. However, Brad Keselowski escaped unscathed, and the culprit’s apology helped soothe tensions as well.

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Soon after feeling Byron’s car riding over the No. 6 Ford, Brad Keselowski was shocked. He blurted his surprise over the radio about how things came to this point. His crew chief responded: “Your buddy Logano ran over you.” Spotter TJ Majors also added, “Cleaned out by Joey, 100%.” Before Keselowski started his RFK journey, he competed in Team Penske for years and raced with Joey Logano. The No. 22 racer clamored for justice when Austin Dillon bumped him and ran at Richmond. But after Watkin Glen’s mishap, he apologized for wrecking his teammate.

Yet Logano could not help but distribute the blame between himself and the track conditions. NASCAR’s Goodyear experiment failed as the tires did not have any fall-off. “I just wanted to talk to him. I mean really, I’m not making any excuses, I needed to check up more but the track’s a complete disaster. They need to clean it up and I got pushed maybe four-wide at one point, so tried to give room there and got up in the marbles. When I went to turn back to the left, it’s got crap all over the tires and I got into him.” He added, “It’s still on me, right, but at the same time, clean the damn track. I brought it up at least two to three times about cleaning the track before the restarts, but it just didn’t happen.”

Brad Keselowski’s team shared a post-race photo of the battered No. 6 car, and it looked rough indeed. Fortunately, he avoided a major disaster and can now focus on his upcoming races.