NASCAR: Cup title would be closing joy for otherwise emotionally bad season for Penske

There’s now one race left between a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series title and Brad Keselowski. It would be the first for Keselowski’s team organization Penske Racing and the first for the young driver. The title would put a happy ending to what was otherwise a torturous year for Roger Penske and his group. Penske brought back the IZOD IndyCar Series to Belle Isle in getting a group together to get the funding to stage the race. After a great weekend, the high of getting a race back was turned to embarrassment as the track had major issues and crumbled. The embarrassment caused a two-hour delay in race action as the race was taken off ABC to ESPN News for the final few laps. Due to darkness the race was shortened from the scheduled length and put a black eye on the event. Then, almost exactly a month later, Penske had yet another terrible problem when his NASCAR driver A.J. Allmendinger failed a drug test at Kentucky Speedway on June 30th. The announcement of the failed drug test came just ...