Brad Keselowski has won at Kentucky Speedway in every even-numbered year there has been a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at the Sparta, Kentucky track. Saturday night's Quaker State 400 was the first on the newly repaved and reconfigured 1.5-mile surface. And it took its toll on the field.

Brad Keselowski has cemented his place in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series as a premiere restrictor plate racer. Once he got in front of Saturday's Coke Zero 400 field at Daytona International Speedway, the tight pack had fits catching him. Keselowski not only got his first-career Daytona victory, but also the 100th Sprint Cup win for Team Penske in its 50th season in racing. This was the tamest plate race of the season, but when trouble happened, it was big.