Saturday, December 4th 'What If' Question

There's an old expression about flying cars and how life might be simpler if there were such a thing.

At the Atlanta Motor Speedway in March of 2010, drivers Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski showed, again, that cars can indeed fly. The end result though, won't be pretty. After contact early in the Kobalt Tools 500 that sent Edwards to the garage, the driver of the No. 99 watched the replay and told the world of TV viewers that Keselowski hadn't done anything wrong.

When the 99 returned to the race 100 laps later however, and saw Keselowski running in the top five he changed his mind. Going down the frontstretch he turned the No. 12 and sent him flipping into the grandstands. It was similar to Edwards flying into the Talladega fence last season off the bumper of Keselowski.

The remainder of the season show many more run-ins between the two. One of the more scary incidents game when they were battling for the win in Gateway during a Nationwide Series race. Keselowski bumped Edwards in turn one and took the lead. Then coming off turn four Edwards turned Keselowski into the fence and won the race. Keselowski came back down the racetrack and was hit by a few other drivers trying to finish the race.

Afterward Keselowski's father Bob said, "He ain't gonna kill my boy" and said NASCAR needed to do something before he tried to handle things. By season's end the two finished first and second in the NNS points with Keselowski winning his first championship.

But ...

What If Carl Edwards & Brad Keselowski didn't give new meaning to flying cars in Atlanta. Would they still had season long rivalry?

@cruetten Probably. I don't think Edwards every really got over being dumped by Keselowski in Talladega the year before.

@ARosser14 Probably. Carl made it clear in Memphis last year that he was to the end of his rope with Keselowski's antics

@tamgil My weigh in on "what if" I believe the intensity of the season long rivalry was a direct correlation to the severity of crash

@denver2u Probably not..Woulda been boring...Now you have the Harvick/Busch rematch hopefully starting in Daytona...

@nascarjaj im thinking if the cars didnt fly, the rivalry would have played out more all season long.