A gift victory
Keselowski wins NASCAR race after leaders bump doors
Brad Keselowski appeared headed for a third-place finish on Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway, but when the two cars in front of him banged doors with three laps to go, Keselowski slid past their damaged cars into the lead. From there, he sprinted to the victory to win the Food City presents the Supermarket Heroes 500.
The victory was the second of the season for Keselowski, who won last weekend’s 600mile race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. It was his 32nd career victory in the NASCAR Cup Series and it was his third on the high-banks of the Bristol half-mile in Tennessee.
He started Sunday’s race from the pole — which was determined by a random draw. But he looked like a huge long shot during most of the final stage of the race.
Aiding his effort to get the win was a decision by his Team Penske team to pit for tires late in the race.
But it was a collision by front-runners Joey Logano, his Penske teammate, and
Chase Elliott, the winner of the second race at Charlotte last week, that gave him the victory.
After the race, Logano and Elliott could be seen in the pits — and they were not social distancing.
Clint Bowyer of StewartHaas Racing finished a seasonbest second.
Third was seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson of Hendrick Motorsports.
Rounding out the top five were Joe Gibbs Racing’s
Kyle Busch and Erik Jones, respectively.
The race, which was the fifth since NASCAR restarted its season after going on a pandemic-forced two-plusmonth hiatus, featured 17 cautions and took almost four hours to complete.
SINGH EXITS KFT EVENT
Former world No. 1 Vijay Singh, who drew criticism for signing up for a tournament on the developmental Korn Ferry Tour (KFT), has since decided not to play the event, the PGA Tour said on Sunday.
The decision by the 57-yearold Fijian, who counts three majors among his 34 titles on the PGA Tour, comes around a month after he signed up for the June 11-14 KFT Challenge at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
A spokesman for the PGA Tour, who confirmed to Reuters the story first reported by Golf Channel, said they had no further comment on Singh’s decision at this time.
Singh, a World Golf Hall of Fame member who plays on the over-50 circuit, is a lifetime PGA
Tour member and can enter any KFT tournament being played in a week in which he is not eligible for the main tour’s event.
The initial decision by Singh, who has earned over $71 million on the PGA Tour, to sign up for the KFT event, proved a divisive one.
MORROW DEAD AT 84
American sprinter Bobby Morrow, who won three gold medals at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, died on Saturday at the age of 84, World Athletics said.
Morrow won gold in the 100 and 200 metres and anchored the U.S. to victory in the 4x100m relay, in which they set a world record. He is one four men to win these three events at a single Games, alongside
Jesse Owens, Carl Lewis and
Usain Bolt. He was named Sports Illustrated’s “Sportsman of the Year” in 1956.