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In the days following the Daytona 500, Keselowski got a

Jan. 10, 2019 by Devin Jones

In the days following the Daytona 500, Keselowski got a new team, the Daytona 500 Team Penske. Since he joined Penske in 2005, he's had several team stints with the team's new team, which was led by Matt Kenseth. (Though to be honest, he's a bit less familiar with the team than he is with the drivers, so I'm guessing that is a little different.) In 2007, Keselowski was able to get some rest after crashing a few times during the final race of the season. "When I got back to the field I was feeling better, and I really wanted to get to the Daytona 500, I just wanted to be able to do the Daytona 500 as much as I can. It's a fun race, and it's a fun time to be a driver, and it's like, 'I have to do something different.' I just wanted to find out how I could do it, because that's a challenge. It's a good challenge, and it'll be fun. I feel good about it and I'll be very happy about it. It's the best thing to do in my career, and I really want to do it."

In 2009, though, Keselowski found himself racing as one of two drivers for Team Penske. The other, Ryan Newman, was also with the team.

"In the first race, I went into the car and did some driving," he said. "When I was in the car, I had no idea what's going on. I was trying to make sure I put the car on the right track before the car went over the front. If I missed my throttle, I was trying to be on the right track. And then I saw the car hit the front. I was like, 'Oh, that feels right.' I got up to go over the front and I hit a tree. That was the first time I had ever hit a tree. I could feel the tires on the car. It's a hard experience to handle. It's just a very different feel and it's fun and I enjoy every minute of it. It's a hard challenge as well."

After taking to the track in a white Porsche Porsches for his first race in 2008, Keselowski's car broke down on the track and he ended up in the hospital. "I was a little worried, I thought maybe I was going to lose my cool," he said. But he wasn't. He kept going with