Brad Keselowski will miss the preseason Clash but vows he will be ready for the Daytona 500 after breaking his right femur from a fall getting out of his vehicle Dec. 18 while on a ski trip.
RFK Racing reserve driver Corey LaJoie will replace Keselowski at the Clash on Feb. 1 at Bowman Gray Stadium, and LaJoie will be Keselowski’s standby driver for the start of the season.
“I didn’t want to rush back,” Keselowski told me Thursday afternoon. “The team and I made the decision together that if all the rehab went absolutely perfect, we’d be ready like, literally, the day of the Clash.
“And that seemed super foolish and didn’t give us any time to do any testing on myself or anything like that.”
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