After a hard fought run at qualifying Brian Keselowski powered the #26 2XL - Slednecks -Schweitzer Title Dodge into the final qualifying spot for the Bashas’ Supermarkets 200 at Phoenix International Raceway.
Driving a new car with little seat time to get used to the new ride, Brian who came off of a great qualifying run at Nashville the week before stepped it up for the team and knew he had to push it as far as he could to make the show. With three other cars bumping ahead of him on owners points Brian had a quick enough time to hang in there.
Starting at the back of the pack and starting the race strong Brian held on and charged up to a 27th place finish. Despite getting down a lap Brian held on and got the lucky dog to get back on the lead lap and having a small fender bender with only a few laps to go Brian kept it clean to hang on with the pack. With only 6 out of the first 7 starts Brian jumps up another 4 spots to move up to 32nd in the standings and the #26 car now sits only 2 spots out of the elusive top 30 in owners points.
With next weekend moving to the famed Talladega Speedway, Brian is looking strong having the super speedway experience on his side with a top 25 in the opening race of the season at Daytona International Speedway. The car is being prepped and the motor put in this week, look for a strong run “Ricky Bobby” style as Brian heads to Talladega!
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Nashville Roundup
Well the trip to Nashville was a pretty good one. Both cars, the #26 2XL Dodge and the #96 Dodge made it into the show. Brian stepped over to the #96 for this race showing his maturity knowing that the team needed to get the car into the owners points since Dennis Setzer was faster with the 26 in practice. Well in true Brian fashion he went out in the #96 car and out qualified Dennis by running a 30.048 to Dennis' 30.063! Way to go Brian, when you put a fire under him he gets rolling!
Dennis ran the entire race, Brian came in with handling issues on the car and sat on the pit box for Dennis the rest of the race. Dennis finished the #26 in 20th place and brought the car within 5 spots of the locked in top 30 in owners points.
On some other news for the race, Nashville was the debut venue for the 2XL, Slednecks, Nitro Circus vending trailer. I would say that the headphones were a hit and the fans loved the Nitro Circus and Slednecks videos that were playing all day. The most common fan question of the day? "Do you all know Hubert?". It seems that Hubert - Americas favorite redneck - from Nitro Circus grew up not far from the venue and we met quite a few of his neighbors, friends and relatives.
All in all the race was a success for the team and we look forward to another great weekend at Phoenix!
See you all there!
Bob, Dennis and Brian talk shop while Brad (Brians younger brother) tries to get some pointers haha!
Rob wonders why he has been holding this tire all day for Bob
Dennis tells Bob that he needs his hat on or he has to find a comb......Brad and Brian keep quiet.....
Dennis ran the entire race, Brian came in with handling issues on the car and sat on the pit box for Dennis the rest of the race. Dennis finished the #26 in 20th place and brought the car within 5 spots of the locked in top 30 in owners points.
On some other news for the race, Nashville was the debut venue for the 2XL, Slednecks, Nitro Circus vending trailer. I would say that the headphones were a hit and the fans loved the Nitro Circus and Slednecks videos that were playing all day. The most common fan question of the day? "Do you all know Hubert?". It seems that Hubert - Americas favorite redneck - from Nitro Circus grew up not far from the venue and we met quite a few of his neighbors, friends and relatives.
All in all the race was a success for the team and we look forward to another great weekend at Phoenix!
See you all there!
Bob, Dennis and Brian talk shop while Brad (Brians younger brother) tries to get some pointers haha!
Rob wonders why he has been holding this tire all day for Bob
Dennis tells Bob that he needs his hat on or he has to find a comb......Brad and Brian keep quiet.....
Thursday, April 9, 2009
East Bound and Down
Heading to Nashville baby!
Got the 2XL / Slednecks vendor trailer on the way to support Brian Keselowski and the K-Auto crew this weekend at Nashville Super Speedway. Stop on by the track for the latest headphones from 2XL and videos from Slednecks.
See you there!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Texas Updates and more
Sorry for the lack of posting here the last week or so. We have been busy geing ready for Texas and at the same time packing everything up for the road from there to Nashville, Phoenix and then to Talledega with Richmond right after that! Wheew! This is going to be a long haul for us. We are on for a 6 week stretch on the road, all of us packed in the motorhome but hopefully we'll get a few hotels in here or there.
Going into Texas this is the final race where the owners points are set from last year. Curently we are sitting 34th in owners points and we need to be up a little to be locked in for guaranteed strting spots. That will take a lot of pressure off the team and will allow us to work on a more "race ready" car as opposed to a qualifying car. It makes a huge difference when you are setting up a car for qualifying just to make the race, then the car is in lock down until the race and you cannot change anything. Hopefully Texas will put us in a great position.
Other news is pretty good, we will be debuting the 2XL, Slednecks, Nitro Circus vending trailer at Nashville. Along with all the goodies from those sponsors you can just hang out at the trailer and listen to some great tunes and check out some of the crazy antics of Travis Pastrana and the Nitro Circus crew. Make sure you check out their show on MTV when you get a chance.
Our new sponsor, 2XL will have all the coolest headphones for you to buy at the track and you can use them to listen to you scanner and take them home for some cool kickin't headphones to listen to your ipod or Zune or whatever you have!
Make sure you stop by and remember when you buy something from the 2XL trailer you are supporting the team 100%, we run our own operation to support the team so every bit helps and thanks for your support!
Here are some links to check out.
http://www.2xl.com
http://www.nitrocircus.com
http://www.slednecks.com
Going into Texas this is the final race where the owners points are set from last year. Curently we are sitting 34th in owners points and we need to be up a little to be locked in for guaranteed strting spots. That will take a lot of pressure off the team and will allow us to work on a more "race ready" car as opposed to a qualifying car. It makes a huge difference when you are setting up a car for qualifying just to make the race, then the car is in lock down until the race and you cannot change anything. Hopefully Texas will put us in a great position.
Other news is pretty good, we will be debuting the 2XL, Slednecks, Nitro Circus vending trailer at Nashville. Along with all the goodies from those sponsors you can just hang out at the trailer and listen to some great tunes and check out some of the crazy antics of Travis Pastrana and the Nitro Circus crew. Make sure you check out their show on MTV when you get a chance.
Our new sponsor, 2XL will have all the coolest headphones for you to buy at the track and you can use them to listen to you scanner and take them home for some cool kickin't headphones to listen to your ipod or Zune or whatever you have!
Make sure you stop by and remember when you buy something from the 2XL trailer you are supporting the team 100%, we run our own operation to support the team so every bit helps and thanks for your support!
Here are some links to check out.
http://www.2xl.com
http://www.nitrocircus.com
http://www.slednecks.com
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