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Brian Keselowski parked, scaling back a bit:

#92-Brian Keselowski parked his car for the race in California last week because of a lack of funding but had hoped to make a solid return this weekend at Martinsville Speedway. For a guy trying to get over the March 17 removal of his gallbladder, he had another sick feeling Friday as Dennis Setzer crashed the team’s car and he had to withdraw from the Cup race at Martinsville. He had only four cars before the crash, and now is down to three for the time being. Even before the accident he was unsure whether he would race the next two weeks. As of Friday, he didn’t have a car ready for next week’s race at Texas Motor Speedway and he didn’t have an engine for the following week’s race at Talladega. He could end up at both of those races or end up staying home. “I don’t want to go just to go,” Keselowski said Friday prior to practice. “I want to go and make the race, try to be as competitive as we can.  I want to go prepared. Really, there’s no race on the schedule earmarked over another one. It’s pretty much, am I prepared? If I’m prepared, then I’ll go. If I’m not, then I’ll stay home until I am. I don’t have enough money to [just] show up every week.”(SceneDaily)(4-3-2011)