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Keselowski Motorsports

Owner(s)	Bob Keselowski Kay Keselowski Brian Keselowski
Base	Mooresville, North Carolina
Series	NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Race drivers	92.Brian Keselowski
Sponsors	92.Melling Auto Parts
Manufacturer	Ford
Career
Debut	2011Daytona 500 (Daytona)
Latest race	2013Cheez-It 355 at The Glen (Watkins Glen)
Races competed	Total: 231 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series: 5 Xfinity Series: 52 Camping World Truck Series: 174
Drivers' Championships	0
Race victories	10 (0 cup, 0 xfinity 10 trucks)
Pole positions	0

Keselowski Motorsports, formerly known asK-Automotive Racing andBrian Keselowski Motorsports, was astock car racing team in theNASCAR Sprint Cup Series. K-Automotive previously raced inARCA and theNationwide Series. K-Automotive is owned and operated byBob,Brian and Kay Keselowski. Brian Keselowski Motorsports is owned and operated byBrian Keselowski.

The team began racing in ARCA andUSAC Series in the 1969 with Ron driving and Bob serving as the team'screw chief.

K Automotive made its debut in the NASCARGrand National Series in1969, the team being owned byJohn Keselowski. Fielding the number 62Kaye EngineeringDodge,Homer Newland finished 36th in the team's debut atMichigan International Speedway. Newland also ran K Automotive's car at the inaugural event atAlabama International Motor Speedway, starting eighth, but dropping to twenty-seventh due to an engine failure.

In1970, Ron began running most of the races for the team. He ran seventeen races, finishing eighth at theWest Virginia 300, and finished 39th in the final points standings. They also fielded a car forDave Marcis at theSouthern 500, finishing 29th. In1971, K fielded entries for a variety of drivers, including Ron,Dick Polling, andBill Shirley. After takingthe following year off, K returned in1973, fielding a car for Ron in two races. He finished fifth atMichigan International Speedway. They made one start in1974 withBob Whitlow before making their final Cup start at the1975 Daytona 500 whenJim Vandiver finished 35th after a wreck.

In 1975, Bob and Ron switched roles, with Bob becoming the team's driver and Ron the crew chief. Bob made his late model debut atToledo Speedway and moved to full-time USAC racing in 1976, running 1974Dodge Challengers andAspens, garnering a best finish of seventh in competition. In 1978, he also ran some NASCARLate Model Sportsman races in addition to the USAC series. He continued to run USAC and theNASCAR Grand American Series over the next several years, and won the 1983 track championship at Toledo.

In 1986, Bob Keselowski began running the ARCA series in the number 29 Chevrolet, making seven starts and getting two second-place finishes before winning his first race atBerlin Raceway. He continued to win many races and awards through the next several years, and was the 1989 ARCA Supercar champion. That same year,Chrysler re-entered auto racing, starting with the ARCA series. K was selected as one of the teams, andMopar Performance sponsored Keselowski's number 29Chrysler LeBaron throughout the 1990 season. Together, they won the season-opener at Daytona and finished 3rd in points. Keselowski would continue to compete in the ARCA series until the end of the 1994 season.

Ten years later, the Keselowskis returned to the series to field the number 29Competition Graphics Dodge under a partnership withBob Ducharme. Brian Keselowski drove seven races and had a top-ten in his debut atKentucky Speedway along with two other top-tens. Despite failing to qualify twice in 2005, he had a string of five consecutive top-ten finishes out of seven starts. In 2006, he won his first career race at Berlin withHolloway Motorsports sponsoring and finished 29th in points. He followed that up with additional wins in the 29 in 2007. That yearMike Ciochetti drove at Talladega but wrecked and finished 39th. In addition, they expanded to a second car, the number 00Orchard Chrysler Dodge Jeep Dodge owned by Brad Keselowski withRobb Brent. Brent ran two seasons in limited schedules and had five top-tens in sixteen starts.

In 2009, K returned to ARCA with the number 29 Chevrolet and hiredMikey Kile andChad Finley to drive on a part-time basis. Kile had four top-ten finishes in theGreased Lightning Cleaning Products Chevy, and Finley had three in theAuto Value Chevy.Jesse Smith drove the season opener at Daytona in 2010.

K returned to NASCAR in1995 with the formation of theSuperTruck Series by Craftsman. Bob began driving the team's number 29Winnebago IndustriesDodge Ram, starting sixteen races and finishing in the top-ten four times, earning him a fourteenth-place points finish. He dropped to sixteenth in the standings the next year when he posted just one top-ten. In1997, he finished a career-best fourteenth in the standings and won his only truck race atRichmond International Raceway in theMopar Dodge. During the1998 season, Keselowski was injured and was replaced byDennis Setzer. Over a span of five races, Setzer had two eighth-place finishes. Keselowski returned and finished tenth atHeartland Park Topeka before handing the driving chores back to Setzer for the rest of the season. Setzer then won his first career race atMesa Marin Raceway. In1999, K created a second truck, the number 1, for Setzer to drive while Keselowski drove the number 29 part-time, doing research and development for Dodge. Keselowski ran five races and had a top-ten finish atTexas Motor Speedway before he retired. Setzer won three times and lost the championship by 108 points.

In2000, Setzer won one race atNazareth Speedway and fell to seventh in the standings.Terry Cook drove the number 29 in a one-race deal at the season finale atCalifornia Speedway and finished seventh. When Setzer left, the team switched to the number 29 andFord. Cook joined the team full-time with sponsorship fromPower Stroke Diesel. In his first year with the team, Cook won the pole at Nazareth and finished tenth in the standings. In2002, he won four races and two poles but dropped to ninth in the final points. After he did not win again in2003, he and PSD left the team.

The team began2004 withFrank Kimmel driving. He finished eighth atDaytona before Brad Keselowski began driving. He made eight races, his best finish sixteenth atMansfield beforeDeborah Renshaw finished out the season. Her best finish came atMartinsville Speedway, where she finished fifteenth. Brad became the team's full-time driver in2005 withSUBcrews.com/Samson Stone as primary sponsors. He had a seventh-place finish at Daytona and finished 21st in points. Due to a lack of sponsorship, the team only ran the first two races of the season before suspending operations. While they did not attempt a race for the rest of the year, they loaned their owner's points toMorgan-Dollar Motorsports and partnered withMB Motorsports to run theO'Reilly Auto Parts 200 that season with Brad driving. He finished 34th after an engine failure.^[1]

Beginning in the 2007 season, the team partnered withHolloway Motorsports to field entries in the Nationwide Series. They ran one race as the number 19 and then as the number 49 for three more races with Brian Keselowski driving, with a top-ten finish atMemphis Motorsports Park. After he drove briefly forJay Robinson Racing, Keselowski moved to the team's number 92 Dodge to drive on a part-time schedule.

In 2009, the team changed numbers from number 92 to number 26 for their main car, and began to run full-time with limited sponsorship from Fischer Honda and Dusty's Collisions. Brian drove most of the races early on in the year with not a lot of luck with his best finish being 14th at Talladega. Later in the year Michael McDowell took over the ride. He drove to an 8th-place finish in Iowa as well as a 10th at Bristol. After one off starts withDanny O'Quinn andDennis Setzer,Kevin Conway leased the team's owner points for the rest of the year and ran theExtenZe car with a best finish of 20th.

In 2010 Brian ran most of the season, running full races until the team fell outside the top 30 in owner points, where the team start-n-parked

K-Automotive partnered withTeam Penske, to haveParker Kligerman &Sam Hornish Jr run races in the 26. Kligerman would run 3 of the Races with the new Nationwide Series COT car, along with Montreal.

Kligerman finished 13th in the July Daytona race, 8th at Montreal, 15th in the fall Richmond Race & 43rd in the fall Charlotte race due to Kligerman crashing on lap 4.

Sam Hornish Jr drove the 26 car at the season finale at Homestead-Miami, finishing 26th.

The 92 car debuted in2009 at Michigan withWillie Allen driving. He and Setzer made a total of seven starts in the car that season, but neither finished a race.Johnny Chapman began the 2010 season as driver, but after only qualifying for one race, he was replaced by Setzer, with Brian andAndy Ponstein occasionally filling. The number 92 is a start and park entry to help fund the number 26. However, the 92 ran Talladega in 2010 in its entire 312 miles (plus 7.98 miles more due to aGreen-white-checkered finish), and finished 17th, after getting in the catch-fence on the last lap and catching fire.^[2]

Brian Keselowski drove the 92 in the 2010 Nationwide Series Finale at Homestead-Miami due to Sam Hornish Jr driving the 26. Brian attempted to run the entire race, where he le 4 laps during green flag pit stops, however he blew a tire and hit wall, finishing with a 34th place finish.

The 96 car also debuted in the 2009 season, but in the second race of the season. Setzer drove for the first three starts, followed by Brian Keselowski and Willie Allen. Eventually Michael McDowell would become the driver of the car withAT&T andThe Real Yellow Pages sponsoring, getting an eleventh-place finish at Montreal. Setzer was expected to drive the car for most of 2010, where he qualified for four of the first five races. However after Johnny Chapman failed to qualify in 4 of the first 5 races in the 92 car, Setzer was moved to the 92. The 96 returned for Darlington where Chapman failed to qualify. Dennis Setzer returned to 96 in Homestead.

K-Automotive motorsports returned to the Cup Series in 2010 with the number 92 Dodge. The team attempted theDaytona 500 with Mike Wallace and four races with Brian Keselowski, but the team did not qualify for any of the events. The team also raced in the Sprint Showdown at Charlotte Motor Speedway with Robert Richardson Jr. driving and sponsorship provided by The Grill Topper.

In 2011, K-Automotive shut down their Nationwide team and moved up to Cup full-time. Keselowski qualified for theDaytona 500 after he raced his way from the slowest of the 48 cars who attempted the race to finishing fifth in his qualifying race, giving him the 12th starting position for the 500. Offers also started pouring in fromRay Evernham,Roger Penske, andGolden Corral.Discount Tire later sponsored the number 92. The team finished 41st after a crash and did not qualify for the next two races. In March, Keselowski had his gall bladder removed, soDennis Setzer took over the car for Keselowski in Bristol and qualified for Bristol and finished 38th after engine trouble. The team then entered with Setzer in Martinsville, but was forced to withdraw after a crash in practice when the cars brakes failed and they did not have a backup car. K-Automotive then scaled down to a partial schedule because they only had one car. They announced a switch to Chevrolet prior to the Michigan race in June and attempted the race with sponsorship from Melling but failed to make the race. Dennis Setzer attempted New Hampshire and the fall Martinsville race but did not qualify. Scott Riggs attempted Homestead but did not qualify that as well.

In 2013, Keselowski changed the number to 52, as he was using owners points fromHamilton Means Racing to run a limited schedule. Keselowski attempted the2013 Daytona 500, but failed to make the race. He ran Richmond and finished 40th. Later in the season, 71-year-oldMorgan Shepherd ran at Loudon, at the time the oldest driver to start a race. Keselowski would return to the car atWatkins Glen, finishing 39th after starting 43rd.

At Sonoma, BKM lent their owner points toGo Green Racing, who fielded rookiePaulie Harraka. This entry was unrelated to BKM's entries.

In 2014, Keselowski changed the number back to 92 and the team switched to Ford, purchasing a car fromGermain Racing, who had switched to Chevy. However, the team never entered a race due to lack of sponsorship.

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