The No. 2 Alliance Truck Parts Ford Fusion driver won both stages of the First Data 500 and nearly won his second race at the 0.526-mile track this season, though a late bump delivered by Chase Elliott in a battle for the lead sent BK sliding out of line and settling for a fourth-place finish.

“We had a really great Alliance Truck Parts Ford,” Brad said. “We were able to lead laps, win two stages and bring home a solid finish—and that’s something to be proud of.”

Brad led 104 laps and earned 53 points, second only to race-winner Kyle Busch. He remains in third in the Monster Energy Cup Series standings, 29 points ahead of the Round of 4 cutline.

Brad started seventh and showed right from the start that the Black and Yellow Deuce was a force to be reckoned with. By the first caution of the day at lap 36, Kes had moved into third place. The 2 Crew continued its stellar postseason, sending BK off in second place for the lap 45 restart. Within four laps, he had taken the lead for the first time on the day.

It wouldn’t be a Team Penske race if it wasn’t for a unique strategy call by Paul Wolfe. The No. 2 Crew chief brought Brad down pit road while the majority of the field stayed out at lap 89. The decision dropped Kes in 11th, but he used his fresh tires to drive all the way to the front and win Stage 1.

During Stage 2, the No. 2’s long-run speed was on display. The entire 130-lap stage stayed green, and just two laps before the Stage 2 yellow, Brad out-dueled Busch for his eighth stage win of the season.

Brad waged an outstanding battle with fellow playoff driver Elliot late in Stage 3. Wolfe hooked Brad up with an air pressure adjustment for the 35-lap final run. BK held his position from the outside line before putting the pressure on Elliott. After a fantastic six-lap battle, Brad used a little push from his teammate Joey Logano to vault past the No. 24 Chevrolet and into the lead with 29 laps to go.

While Kes built a comfortable cushion and set sail for the lead, a battle behind him changed the scope of the race. Busch made hard contact with the left-rear tire of Logano, causing heavy smoke to pour out of his No. 22 Ford. With smoke billowing out of the Team Penske machine, he kept remained on the track for several laps before spinning out, bringing the field to a caution with just seven laps to go.

BK chose the outside line for a restart with four laps to go, and after a hard battle on the restart, he was bumped out of line by Elliott.

“I just knew I got in the corner and he was inside of me and we just made contact,” BK said. “The track’s really slick for everybody on the restarts. I think we saw that it takes about five laps or more for everyone to get going, especially the leader. There was a lot of hard fighting here. It’s a short track, that’s what they’re about—hard fighting. You try not to take anyone out. Who’s to say what’s too far and what’s not.”

Brad slid back to seventh place, but just moments later, Elliott was spun out by Denny Hamlin, sparking overtime at The Paperclip. Kes restarted seventh for the two-lap finale. Similar to Elliott’s move on Brad earlier, Busch bumped his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Hamlin, out of line on the final restart and held off Martin Truex Jr. to win. Meanwhile, Hamlin couldn’t recover from the bump by Busch, and he spun out collecting nearly the entire field. Brad was one of the lucky few to skirt by to grab fourth place.

Brad walked away proud of his team’s performance, grabbing two stage wins and a Top 5 finish to start the Round of 8, but he knows that after coming up just shy of the Martinsville win, he’ll have to be at his best at Texas Motor Speedway and Phoenix International Raceway.

“Everyone’s just desperate,” BK said of the race. ” You’ve got two or three cars that are so much better than everybody else on the mile-and-a-halfs that this is our race to get it done, and I think we all know that.”

MENCS PLAYOFFS STANDINGS

1. Kyle Busch – 4100*
2. Martin Truex Jr. – 4117
3. Brad Keselowski – 4079
4. Kevin Harvick – 4053

–CHAMPIONSHIP CUTLINE–

5. Jimmie Johnson – 4050
6. Ryan Blaney – 4047
7. Denny Hamlin – 4045
8. Chase Elliott – 4027
* – Locked into Championship 4

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Of the three Round of 8 tracks, Brad sees The Paperclip as his best shot at victory. He’ll return to the Virginia short track as the defending winner, having captured his first Grandfather Clock at the Cup level this spring.

“Martinsville at this moment I would say is a must-win for us, and we know that going in,” Brad said after his Talladega win. “We tested there, and we feel like that’s the type of track that we have a lot of strength for.”

BK will ride a string of three straight Top 5 finishes at Martinsville into his 16th start at the 0.526-mile oval, and he knows that surface tips the odds in his favor. The Ford Performance stable simply hasn’t found the speed to contend with the Toyotas at 1.5-mile tracks, making Martinsville a crucial track on the road to a title.

“Well, the good thing about Martinsville is you spin the tires there, so the engine from a horsepower standpoint is not as critical when you can’t put the gas pedal down. I think that’s why we run so well there,” BK said. “If you look at the tracks where the Fords have won this year, it’s been the tracks where you have very little rear tire grip, a lot of wheel spin; Sonoma, Martinsville, and it’s been at the restrictor plate tracks, so I don’t think that’s a mistake by any means.”

Brad ran incredibly well at Martinsville earlier this season. The Rochester Hills, Michigan, native outdueled Kyle Busch late in the race to earn the coveted Martinsville win—one of the most special victories of his career.

“It felt like we were due with the Miller Lite Ford, and if you ever can be, this is probably one of those tracks, and today was one of those days where we persevered in a special way with the battle there with Kyle at the end I thought was a lot of fun to be a part of,” Brad said. “Hopefully it was a lot of fun to watch and kind of harkens back to the legacy of this sport on short tracks and why this track has been around for 70 some years because of battles like that.”

If Brad can replicate that performance, he’ll punch his ticket to Homestead-Miami Speedway where he’ll race for his second Cup title.

The No. 2 Alliance Truck Parts Ford will roll out for two practice sessions Saturday at 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Qualifying will take place on race Sunday at 12:05 p.m. ET. The First Data 500 will go green shortly after 3 p.m. ET on NBCSN.

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“You know, the two wins this year have both come at tracks that I haven’t won at before and we haven’t won at as a team before, so certainly that feels really good to be able to check something off the list,” he said.

The triumph started from P4 as grid setting qualifying was rained out on Friday afternoon. From there, it didn’t take long for Brad to show the power of his the No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion. Driving up to second on lap 3, he passed both Martin Truex Jr. and Chase Elliott. On lap 24, he passed Kyle Larson to take the race lead, and held it until the first caution on lap 69 from a Ricky Stenhouse Jr. spin. Pitting for four tires and fuel, he was able to maintain the lead but was busted for speeding on pit road. Relegated to a P28 restart on lap 76, the progress came through quickly. Three laps into the run, he cracked the Top 25; and another 20 laps in Kes broke the Top 20.

A lap 105 caution for a wrecked Jamie McMurray allowed crew chief Paul Wolfe to keep his driver out on track, set up for a third place restart. Using the inner line on lap 117, BK motored around Martinsville legend Jimmie Johnson, but was passed by Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch before the end of the 130 lap stage. The P4 finish awarded five Stage Points to the No. 2 Miller Lite team. Using the Stage 1 caution to pit, Wolfe put a new set of Goodyear Eagles on the car, along with an air pressure adjustment.

Restarting from P20 on lap 142, it took until lap 179 to break back into the Top 10. Brad then claimed his spot in the Top 5 on lap 211 after passing Trevor Bayne, Matt Kenseth, Erik Jones, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Johnson. Before the second stage ended without a caution, BK advanced to third, passing Penske teammates Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney.

Using the Stage as a chance to service the car, Wolfe & Co. completed another round of stops, while losing a spot to Johnson’s crew en route to a P4 restart. Miraculously, Brad was able to get that spot back from the outside line on the restart and passed Elliott for the runner-up spot on lap 287. Using the lap 333 Reed Sorenson caution as the next chance to visit pit road, a four-tire and fuel stop lined the White Lite up fourth, behind Stenhouse and Hamlin who stayed out. As Stenhouse spun his wheels on the start, it dropped Kes back to sixth, but he eventually clawed back to his second place position on lap 399.

Six laps after that, the 2012 Champion saw the lead again. It only lasted for a lap under green as Matt DiBenedetto hit the wall on lap 406. Taking the green again on lap 414, Busch claimed his spot at the lead back, before Kes took it back on lap 429. The duo traded the spot again on lap 444, and the final time on lap 458 – where Brad cruised to the checkers from there.

It was the first time since Kurt Busch’s 2002 Martinsville win that Ford Performance visited The Paperclip’s Victory Lane, and it was the first time for The Captain, Roger Penske since 2004 with Blue Deuce icon Rusty Wallace. Along with that, Martinsville was Brad’s 275th MENCS race, and race No. 1000 for Team Penske.

“There seemed to be a lot of numerology today with this being the Penske team’s 1,000th start here in this series, and it’s been a long time since Ford won here,” Kes said.

More than anything, the battle with Joe Gibbs Racing rival Busch allowed Brad to enjoy some hard-but-clean racing.

“It felt like we were due with the Miller Lite Ford, and if you ever can be, this is probably one of those tracks, and today was one of those days where we persevered in a special way with the battle there with Kyle at the end I thought was a lot of fun to be a part of,” Brad said. “Hopefully it was a lot of fun to watch and kind of harkens back to the legacy of this sport on short tracks and why this track has been around for 70 some years because of battles like that.”

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Brad was strong all day at The Paperclip, even challenging race-winner Jimmie Johnson late but he ran out of laps trying to catch the No. 48 car, and ultimately settled for second in the Goody’s Fast Relief 500. The runner-up finish was BK’s second, tying his career best at the Virginia short-track, leaving him pleased with the day and his team’s effort despite falling just short of the win.

“The team executed really well, we just kind of missed out on the racing Gods today,” Kes said. “We have a lot to be proud of, a great effort, and showed that we’re still a strong team if not the strongest in the garage and I’m really proud of that.”

Beginning the race from the 19th starting position after a rough qualifying effort, Kes had his work cut out to make it up to the front of the field. An initial start on the bottom line boosted him up three spots to 16th on the opening lap, and by lap 7, the Deuce was by both Jamie McMurray and David Ragan into P14. The field bunched up on lap 22 when a caution flew for Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wheel-hopping and wrecking his Ford. After pitting for a set of tires and fuel, Brad was set up for a lap-29 restart from 15th.

At the green flag, he instantly drove by Aric Almirola, and passed another two cars shortly thereafter, putting the Alliance Truck Parts Ford in P12 at lap 34. From there, the long run speed of the Deuce came in, as BK passed Jeff Gordon, Chase Elliott, Tony Stewart, and Jimmie Johnson to move up to eighth by lap 55. The next yellow waved on lap 61 when Ragan’s car began leaking fluids, allowing crew chief Paul Wolfe to call his driver in for pit work.

The high line restart on lap 67 pushed the No. 2 back a spot to 11th, and on lap 75, the Deuce was nudged out of the preferred groove, dropping back to 15th. Undeterred, Brad began to climb back through his competition, passing Austin Dillon, Casey Mears, and Kurt Busch for 12th, where he sat when a debris caution flew on lap 133. While pitting for fresh Goodyear rubber and fuel, the 2 Crew made air pressure and wedge adjustments on the ATP Ford Fusion, and still gained their driver a spot on pit road, allowing Brad to restart on the bottom in 11th position.

With the inner line prevailing again, BK quickly passed Denny Hamlin, and both drivers got by McMurray, and Kyle Larson by lap 164. But Hamlin didn’t let Brad settle into eighth, and the No. 11 quickly took his spot back, dropping the No. 2 to ninth. But BK followed him through, passing Ryan Newman for eighth and later Johnson for seventh. The next debris caution flew on lap 200, and Wolfe elected to take four tires under yellow. That move cost the team just one position, and the Deuce lined up P8 for the restart on lap 207.

That move cost the team just one position, and the Deuce lined up P8 for the restart on lap 207.

After slipping down to the bottom line and settling into 10th on lap 212, Brad attempted to let Chase contender and Penske teammate Joey Logano in line, but he ended up costing himself in the process when Newman made an aggressive dive on the ATP machine. That move sent the Deuce all the way back to 15th. As he did earlier in the race, Brad rebounded by driving through the competition once more.

Over the next 25 laps, he passed Kasey Kahne, Kevin Harvick, Newman, Kyle Larson, and Carl Edwards, and by lap 240, he’d moved the 2 car back inside the Top 10. But BK didn’t stop there, also passing McMurray, Dillon, Logano, and A.J. Allmendinger to move up to sixth prior to a round of green-flag pit stops at lap 355. During the pit sequence, Carl Edwards blew a tire and knocked the wall down, causing a delay, and NASCAR took a total of 29 caution laps to sort the drivers out.

After restarting P8 from the back of the field on lap 387, it took close to 50 laps before Brad was able to pass McMurray for a position. However, he used that momentum and also scooted by Gordon and Martin Truex Jr. in the next few laps to crack the Top 5. That put him behind three Joe Gibbs Racing machines and Johnson with less than 100 laps to go in the race.

After biding his time for most of the afternoon, Brad did his best work in the closing laps. He finally got by the No. 18 of Kyle Busch on lap 466, then took down Matt Kenseth’s No. 20 car five laps later. Shortly thereafter, the No. 2 cleared Hamlin’s No. 11 for second on lap 477. BK closed a huge margin on Johnson, but as the race wound down, he found himself needing more time to get to the No. 48’s bumper.

“It was a good day for us, not the win,” Brad said. “I think we had the speed capable to pull it off, but still a really strong day. The car was good.”

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Now, it’s all about wins for the Team Penske driver. He is currently locked in a four-way tie with Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr., all with four wins on the year. In the final four races, BK hopes to claim the series lead in victories and fight for fifth place in the final standings. That begins in this weekend’s Goody’s Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway, a track where BK is imbued with confidence.

“It does matter to me,” he said on overall season ending standings. “We’re starting to get this place where we’re really consistent and can run up front and that’s a good feeling.”

Preparing for his 500-lap weekend, he cruised to the racetrack in the passenger seat of his team hauler, alongside weekly driver Mike “Bama” Williams, and answering fan questions along the way. The most recent race run with ATP colors at Pocono Raceway was a near victory for the 2 Crew, finishing the day as the runner-up in the fog-shortened event. And without a title on the line, Kes wants to improve on that result.

“Win more races,” BK said of his outlook after Talladega.

In Brad’s Cup career at Martinsville, he has managed to pace the field for 171 laps, with 143 of them coming in the fall 2015 event. His Deuce contained class-of-the-field speed, at one point claiming a lead in excess of 11 seconds, or over half of a lap, on the competition. Between himself and Team Penske teammate Joey Logano, they combined to lead 350 of 500 laps—70 percent of the race.

In his last two fall Paperclip appearances, the Michigan native has been plagued with mechanical issues. A faulty transmission in 2014 dropped him to a P31 finish, while a broken tie rod in 2015 paved the way to another finish outside of the Top 30.

While he’s seen a share of negatives at the Virginia half-mile track, the annual spring event has paved the way to some more memorable races. Last year’s running of the spring showdown resulted in a thriller between Brad and rival Denny Hamlin. A debris caution with 40 laps remaining set BK up for a run at the checkers, and he surely went for it. Already with previous bad blood with Hamlin, Kes knew he couldn’t push the envelope without consequence. Trying every possible late-race short track maneuver he could think of, Brad ran through the checklist – just without checking off the wrecking box.

“Hats off to Brad,” Hamlin said. “He had an option (to wreck me) and he took the latter — thank him for that.”

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BK passed 52 cars, the third most of any driver in the STP 500, but a pit road speeding penalty roughly 100 laps into the day set him back early on. He climbed as high as second both before and after that penalty but never could get to the lead. After finishing fifth, he applauded the 2 Crew for a hard-fought day.

“It was a blue collar day for sure for Team Penske and the Miller Lite Ford,” Brad said. “Somewhat proud of to come home with a fifth. The team put together a great effort.”

The numbers were mediocre for the White Lite early in the weekend. Brad earned an 11th place start at the 0.526-mile Virginia oval in qualifying—right on par with the P12 and P11 starts he grabbed at The Paperclip last season. Meanwhile, Joey Logano claimed his third consecutive Martinsville pole in Team Penske’s No. 22 car. That left Kes searching for speed still, and the Deuce posted just the 20th-fastest lap during Saturday morning’s final practice session. But that didn’t have BK worried.

“I don’t think that practice speed today will indicate what the car is like, the track is going to change so much before the race tomorrow,” Brad predicted.

BK’s forecast was correct. Once the race started, Brad was on a mission, and the White Lite was one of the fastest machines on the Martinsville short track. An early caution reset the field just four laps in with Kes positioned in 12th, placing him in the precarious high line for the ensuing restart, but Brad showed his speed right from the beginning and picked up a few positions from that outside row, settling in line in ninth.

Just 20 laps after the restart, Brad had moved past Denny Hamlin, Kasey Kahne and Matt Kenseth into the Top 5. In another 10 laps, on lap 41, he had moved past Brian Vickers, Logano and Paul Menard into second place. Kes was just experiencing some tire falloff when a Michael Annett spin reverted the field back to a full course caution on lap 91. That brought the field to pit road for the first time, where a quick pit stop sent Brad off pit road in second place.

Unfortunately, the pit stop wasn’t the only quick part of the pit cycle. Kes was nabbed for speeding on the narrow pit road. Local driver and race favorite Hamlin was also caught for exceeding the mandated pace. Brad was incredulous after being flagged for speeding, explaining that his digital dash never lit up, warning him that he was going too fast.

“Paul, I didn’t even get to my lights,” Brad said over the radio. “Not sure how that’s possible.”

But not all was lost after the pit road miscue. The last time Brad earned a speeding penalty, his car ended up in Victory Lane at Las Vegas. Additionally, with more than 400 laps remaining, the 2 Crew had plenty of time to rebound. On lap 97, Brad began his charge back to the front from the 18th position, from the tail end of the longest line.

In the following green flag stretch, the poor track position hurt the 2 Crew. A chain reaction between Jamie McMurray, and Greg Biffle left Brad with nowhere to go. From behind, Austin Dillon piled into the No.2, sandwiching the Miller Lite Ford between the two cars. Cosmetically, the race car took on a new appearance, but a machine doesn’t have to look good to run well at Martinsville.

With his car looking something like a bulldog with a mean underbite, Brad continued to charge forward. At lap 191, he cracked the Top 10 and was up to eighth when Hamlin hit the wall at lap 221, bringing out the fourth caution of the day. After a slight wedge adjustment on a four-tire stop, the White Lite reentered the Top 5 at lap 257. At that point, the Deuce’s next challenge came in the presence of fellow Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, as the two longtime rivals traded the fourth position a total of three times in a 40-lap stretch.

Josh Wise brought out caution No. 5 shortly after lap 300, and Brad continued to show his speed over the ensuing long run. He moved past Kyle Larson, Kurt Busch, Johnson, Kenseth and Kevin Harvick all the way to second place. But just when he was closing in on leader Kyle Busch, a caution flag flew at lap 384. On this stop, the 2 Crew once again got the job done, entering and exiting pit road second.

But that put Brad on the dreaded outside line. With some help from spotter Joey Meier, Brad settled down into third after a hard battle with Kenseth. He remained in third when the seventh yellow flag flew at lap 457. This time, Brad was off in third and had the benefit of the inside line, making him poised to take second place. But Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Kenseth and Busch worked together: Busch took the outside, giving Kenseth the security of the low line, and Kenseth allowed Busch to keep his lead position, pinning Brad in third.

BK did all he could to take second, but after making contact with Kenseth, BK yielded and let the No. 20 stay in second.

“We had really strong long-run speed, but we couldn’t put together the short-run to really run with the 18 (Busch) and 20 (Kenseth),” Brad said. “We kept trying and kept trying but just never really found it.”

With even more damage accumulated on the No. 2, Brad had been passed by AJ Allmendinger back to fourth place when the eighth and final caution paused racing once again on lap 482. With less than 20 laps remaining, it was a tough decision, but the No. 2 team ultimately decided to pit for four fresh tires and an adjustment.

“We’ve already got a win Paul. Let’s try something,” BK radioed. “Who cares about Top 5s, Top 10s.”

Kes was the first in the field to pit, but unfortunately, not enough cars followed suit, leaving a big gap between Brad and the front. Kes restarted 11th with just 10 laps to go and quickly began working his way up. He reached seventh with seven laps left and sixth with four trips around The Paperclip to go. But he ultimately ran out of time. Brad bested Vickers on the final lap to claim his second Top 5 finish and his third Top 10 of the young season, while Busch took the checkered flag.

The search continues for his first coveted grandfather clock, but Brad now boasts seven Top 10 finishes at Martinsville, and he has been in contention for the win in each of his last three starts at the narrow short track. And he hopes that success will carry forward when the Cup circuit returns to the ‘Clip during the Chase.

“We’ve been really good here the last few times. If we can keep knocking on that Top 5 door like we have the last three times here, we’ll break through and get a win,” Brad said. “On to the next one.”

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BK has come incredibly close on several occasions at Martinsville, including two times last season alone, but the driver of the No. 2 Ford is still looking to add his name to the list of winners at The Paperclip, something he hopes he can finally check off his bucket list on Sunday in the STP 500.

To say that Brad was close to victory in both races last year at Martinsville last year almost qualifies as an understatement. His finishes of second and 32nd don’t do justice to how well the Deuce ran on the Virginia short track, where he led 161 Sprint Cup last season. But 2016 presents another opportunity, and pairing that recent success at the Paperclip with the confidence boost the No. 2 crew received from the last few weeks of racing before the Easter Break, has BK and expecting to be a serious contender for his first Ridgeway Grandfather Clock this weekend.

“We had probably our best year at Martinsville since I’ve been on the Cup side in 2015,” said No. 2 crew chief Paul Wolfe. “We really had a car capable of winning both races last year. Obviously we weren’t able to get it done. We feel like we can definitely build off of those notes from last year.”

Last year’s spring run at the tight 0.526-mile oval ended in a thrilling battle between Brad and rival Denny Hamlin. A debris caution with 40 laps remaining set BK up for a run at the checkers, and he surely went for it.  Trying every possible late-race short track maneuver he could think of, Brad ran through the checklist—marking off all but one possibility: wrecking Hamlin’s No. 11 Toyota. Already a party to previous bad blood with Hamlin, Kes knew he couldn’t push that envelope without consequence. The driver of the No. 11 respected the fact that he didn’t.

“Hats off to Brad,” Hamlin said after the race. “He had an option (to wreck me) and he took the latter — thank him for that.”

It’s unusual for two drivers the caliber of Hamlin and Brad to leave such a competitive race with an even greater respect for one another. But instead of brewing more animosity between the two, that’s exactly what last year’s STP 500 accomplished for the drivers of the No. 2 and No. 11. Kes took the high road and finished second, while Hamlin added the coveted clock to his trophy collection.

Brad returned in the fall looking to secure his own grandfather clock and book a spot in the Chase for The Sprint Cup finale at Homestead. The 500-lap battle for those two honors featured total Team Penske dominance, as Brad and teammate Joey Logano led a combined 350 of 500 laps, or 70 percent of the race.

The pair looked destined for a one-two finish, but as the old saying goes, “to finish first, you first must finish.” Late in the race, the Deuce was bumped from behind by the No. 41 of an impatient Kurt Busch on a restart, sending the No. 2 Ford spinning into the No. 20 of Matt Kenseth. That wreck ended Brad’s day, and Kenseth went on to intentionally put the then leader Logano into the wall several laps later.

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