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Brad Keselowski receives medical attention, carted off pit road after NASCAR Cup Series race at COTA

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Brad Keselowski
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Brad Keselowski received medial attention and was carted off pit road after the NASCAR Cup Series race at Circuit of the Americas (COTA) on Sunday. RFK Racing announced that Keselowski’s cooling suit failed during the race.

“After his cool suit failed during today’s race, [Brad Keselowski] went to the infield care center to get some IV fluids,” RFK Racing wrote on X/Twitter. “Can confirm he is feeling much better now.”

Despite the failed cool suit, Keselowski had a strong showing at COTA, as he finished 15th. This was the 41-year-old’s best finish this season after finishing 26th at Daytona and 39th at Atlanta.

Brad Keselowski is a co-owner of RFK Racing, a team that just added a third driver for the 2025 season. In November, Keselowski talked about needing the expansion to compete in NASCAR.

Brad Keselowski talks expansion of RFK Racing

“From there, it was kind of like we recognized that’s the next step,” Keselowski said, per NASCAR.com. “If you look at the way NASCAR’s set up right now, you need to have three teams. I think that’s why you see the Trackhouses and the 23XIs and all those guys are pushing to be three teams, even Front Row. So there’s strength in numbers with just the way the sport’s laid out, and how you can kind of amortize the overhead and capture the most data. So it’s important for us to be not just financially viable, but competitively viable to have three teams and maximize the opportunities on any given weekend. So, it’s a natural next step for us to get us to where we can ramp up our performance.”

Kelselowski also talked about his win at Darlington last year, his first victory in 110 races. “When I won Darlington with my family there, I mean, that was just … it still gives me chills thinking about it,” Keselowski said. “Once you become a father, one of the things that nobody can really tell you — or at least they didn’t tell me or I wasn’t listening — is the impact of your success and being able to see it through the eyes of your own children and to know that it commands some level of respect and validation from them for years to come and hopefully through their whole entire life. As a father, you want your kids to think you’re a badass, and to see that actually happen is pretty cool.”