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[Nick @fastlanefan]

@DirtDobberMedia Right on. Countless stories on times where he did, but didn’t have to.

[Nick @fastlanefan]

@Snaxxx25 The Weapon!!!

[Nick @fastlanefan]

@DirtDobberMedia Really miss that guy.

[Nick @fastlanefan]

@ThonuesJason1 Let the good times roll 🏁

[Joseph Srigley @joe_srigley]

#NASCAR… @Keselowski and @RyanPreece_ both endured BRUTAL stretches this Summer that has dropped them from “The Chase”, but are hoping top-10s at North Wilkesboro can give them the necessary momentum to get back in the post-season conversation:

https://t.co/afPYsOH6iY

[Nick @fastlanefan]

@Jordan_Bianchi @TheAthletic This is awesome to see @keselowski

[Steven Taranto @STaranto92]

Brad Keselowski had a lot to say today about how he thinks Toyota has fostered collaboration amongst their top teams, which he has not seen from Ford and Chevy.

Brad explained how engineering over the last several years has shifted from the teams to the OEMs (in part because of Furniture Row spending a ton of money, winning a championship and then shutting down the next year), and an unintended consequence of that being a stalemate among organizations and the OEMs deciding "who their favorite was," which has affected which teams are championship-level (Hendrick, Gibbs, Penske) and which aren't.

"I give a lot of credit to Toyota for this, they've recognized that that stalemate is not necessarily good for the sport or for them as an OEM. And they've done a lot of things to push elite collaboration amongst their top organizations so that they have, for reference, two kind of "A" organizations rather than an A, B, and C.

"As I've seen to date, the other OEMs have not done that. And Toyota is making them pay for that with results on the racetrack. They deserve credit for that. It's a really great behind the scenes move that they've taken full advantage of in a way that is legal, and probably should be.

"The challenge that I see is will the other two OEMs actually kind of react to that. I haven't seen that at the moment. ... I think if you're gonna beat Toyota, you have to have at least two elite organizations collaborating at very, very high levels and sharing the elite resources that are specific to the OEM. And I only see Toyota doing that right now."

Also included Denny Hamlin's response for the sake of completeness, where he pointed out that 23XI chose to have an alliance with JGR (rather than Toyota mandating it) and pays a fee to do so.

h/t @MattWeaverRA

[Nick @fastlanefan]

@keselowski Good run today. Gonna be a good second half of the season

[Nick @fastlanefan]

@RFKracing Brad is doing a better job as a driver than he gets credit for, but he’s got to stop making strategy calls from the cockpit.

[Nick @fastlanefan]

@DirtyMoMedia 100%. Mr. Goodbar is the best

[Nick @fastlanefan]

@DirtyMoMedia @DaleJr @XfinityRacing What would your dad think about how aero dependent today’s Cup racing is, and what changes would he want?

[Andrew @Basso488]

17 years ago today, Kyle Busch won the 2009 Federated Auto Parts 300 @ Nashville.

[Nick @fastlanefan]

@MattWeaverRA Imo, Denny had it won once he got inside. Briscoe had a better shot than Bell if he had gone 3 wide bottom at the white flag.

[Nick @fastlanefan]

@3dalesrfan3 @KyleBusch Couldn’t have said it better. For the people who witnessed him race, there will always be a part of NASCAR that will be missing

[Keegan Strauch @Keeegs2]

One of my favorite Kyle Busch moments. One of @mikejoy500, @LarryMac28, DWs best calls

[Justin Champagne @ChampagneRacin]

One of Kyle Busch’s best quotes. We’ll never see a villain character like Kyle Busch again

[dale tanhardt @daletanhardt]

KFB Forever

[Brad Keselowski @keselowski]

I made him earn every victory and stole a few from him along the way. We took our shots at each other, in the media and on the track. But I’d like to think that somewhere deep down there was an appreciation that we pushed each other to perform at the highest level, even if neither of us would’ve admitted it.

Tonight, I feel a little like the coyote with no more roadrunner to chase. His loss is all of our loss, but none more so than his family’s. Thinking of Samantha, and Brexton and Lennix who lost their father today.