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Crew members survey the damage to Brad Keselowski's car after it was returned to the garage.Good guy Edwards makes bad situation much worse
Must pay price for 'blatant' attempt to wreck Keselowski
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HAMPTON, Ga. -- He should have waited until Bristol.
That's all. Just two weeks.
But Carl Edwards simply couldn't wait to exact some sort of revenge on Brad Keselowski. Apparently fuming over an incident much earlier in Sunday's Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, one in which Edwards believed overaggressive driving by Keselowski ruined his day, Edwards deliberately turned the No. 12 Dodge driven by Keselowski on Lap 323 of the scheduled 325-lap event.
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Carl Edwards didn't like it when an early incident with Brad Keselowski all but ended his race and made it known once he returned to the track.
He did so on the frontstretch of the 1.54-mile track, as their cars approached speeds in the 190 mph range. The end result sent Keselowski airborne. He eventually landed upside down on the driver's side of the roof of his car, instantly demolishing it.
"Did I just fly?" a dazed Keselowski asked his crew chief, Jay Guy, over the radio not long after his car finally came to a rest.
Told that indeed, he just did fly, Keselowski also asked: "Did I hurt any fans or anything? Is everybody OK out there?"
Meanwhile, Edwards was expressing concern over his radio at about the same time. He told his crew chief, Bob Osborne: "Let me know if he gets out. Let me know if he's OK."
Keselowski needed assistance to get out of his car and more or less staggered to a waiting ambulance, which whisked him off to the infield care center. He checked out fine, but afterward chastised Edwards for wrecking him and exclaimed that someone could have gotten killed. He also said that parking Edwards for the final few laps of Sunday's event stopped well short of being a severe enough punishment. He suggested Edwards should be suspended.
"Parking a guy for this race is not enough. I think he deserves at least one race," Keselowski said.
And Keselowski is right. (Continued)
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