Pit-road stats: Brad Keselowski’s crew makes jump following Dover race
RFK Racing co-owner and driver Brad Keselowski has been in the headlines in recent weeks due to a publicized pit-crew swap between the RFK No. 17 team and the No. 47 group of JTG Daugherty Racing.
There’s more to talk about with Keselowski and his crew post-Dover, but this time it’s simply about performance — and it’s a good story for the No. 6 squad.
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Keselowski’s crew was on point last weekend at Dover Motor Speedway, putting in its best outing of the season as the veteran driver sprinted to an eighth-place finish.
The No. 6 crew consisting of tire changers Johnny Roberts and Steve Price, tire carrier Telvin McClurkin, fueler Brad Robison and jackman Dustin Lineback turned the 10th-fastest four-tire pit stop of the entire season on Lap 124, according to Racing Insights. The 9.776-second stop is tied with an Alex Bowman stop at Las Vegas from earlier this year in the season-long top 10 rankings (the full top 10 is below).
Additionally, the No. 6 crew was the fastest at Dover with both the best single-best pit stop and also the best average four-tire stop time at 10.099 seconds. That time of 10.099 is the second-quickest average time of a race this season, behind only Kyle Larson’s 10.051-second average from the No. 5 team at Martinsville.
Keselowski’s crew also jumped from fifth place to second place on the list of best average four-tire pit stops this year (see more below). No one else jumped that high. William Byron’s No. 24 crew, though, supplanted Chase Briscoe’s squad at the top of the rankings following Dover.
See below to analyze additional pit-road statistics from Racing Insights.