Many moons ago, one of the first races we covered for National Speed Sport News was an ARCA RE/MAX Series event at Pocono Raceway. It was won by Bob Keselowski.
A journeyman veteran, who drove cars prepared by his brother Ron, Keselowski was an ARCA kingpin in the 1980s and early ’90s.
Racing often on a smaller budget than the competition, Bob Keselowski won 24 ARCA events and 26 poles. He was the series champion in 1989.
During the final years of his racing career, he competed in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and won once in that series.
Now, his sons are racing. Both Brian and Brad Keselowski had struggled, racing with underfunded teams until Brad landed with Dale Earnhardt, Jr.’s NASCAR Nationwide Series team last year. He’s been a contender all year, and earned his first series victory at Nashville (Tenn.) Superspeedway.
With his parents, Bob and Kay on hand, Brad brought another highlight to one of racing’s great families.

(Kyle) Petty is the best analyst — by far — working NASCAR racing today.

• It was interesting watching Kyle Petty and Wally Dallenbach drive Petty Driving Experience cars alongside each other while explaining the intricacies of Pocono Raceway during the TNT coverage of the Sprint Cup event there. But, we couldn’t help but wonder if Petty got claustrophobic being so close to another car.
But despite his speed on the track, Petty is the best analyst — by far — working NASCAR racing today.

• Isn’t it interesting that so many nations voting on Max Mosley’s fate as president of the Federation Internationale de’ l’Autombile, found nothing wrong with his behavior, yet FIA officials sanctioning the Canadian Grand Prix said it would investigate the accident by which Lewis Hamilton rear-ended defending champion Kimi Raikkonen. It’s OK to frolic with prostitutes on videotape, but stupidity on the race track is strictly prohibited. Let’s hope FIA is never involved in NASCAR races.

• And why, oh why, is there a stop light at the end of pit lane in Formula One events. Looks like they are asking for trouble to me. Was Hamilton going too fast for the conditions, yes, but did he intentionally hit Raikkonen? To me it appeared to be a driver who made a mistake attempting to avoid pending doom and Raikkonen was a victim of circumstances.

• It has been unfortunate that the last two IndyCar Series events have ended under the yellow flag, but it is certainly not time for a knee-jerk reaction that will lead to another crazy green-white-checkered finish rule.
While we do agree the fans should see a race end under the green flag, it seems nearly every NASCAR race ends in a green-white-checkered shootout. Yellow flags and restarts just lead to more crashing.
And overall, the IRL has had very few yellow-flag finishes through its history. Yellow flag finishes are just part of racing. Nobody complains when a race is called early because of rain. Can’t control that either.

• Since the weather has gotten hot, so has two-time defending World of Outlaws champion Donny Schatz. Schatz started off the season a little slow, but had a streak of five victories in six races and had regained the series point lead from Jason Meyers, who has for the most part managed to keep pace with Schatz in the standings.
Craig Dollansky won consecutive races this past weekend, and looks poised to make it a three-horse race for the championship.
But, there’s still a long way to go.