“You don’t see this anymore”: Brad Keselowski reminisces old days in NASCAR

Upon his arrival at the Pocono Raceway for Sunday's Cup Series race, Brad Keselowski was left in awe. The RFK Racing owner-driver saw something unbelievable behind the hauler of the No. 6 team, which had him reminiscing about the good old days in NASCAR.

There was a time during the latter half of the 1900s and early 2000s when there used to be a stack of above ten newspapers behind the hauler of every team.. Keselowski said that those newspapers used to be treasure troves of information about the then-Winston Cup Series. Therefore, everyone would grab a copy and read it.

"So you would show up to the racetrack and you'd get to the back of the hauler. These guys don't know," Keselowski recalled. "There would be a stack of newspapers sitting there. Like a stack, like ten of them. It would be the Winston Cup Scene...I guess I don't know what they call it. They'd be like, everybody grab them and you sit there, read them. This is before Twitter."

Surprisingly, Pocono "The Tricky Triangle" Raceway does it even to this day. Greatly impressed at the same, the Ford pilot exclaimed,

"So I walked in the media center and they still do it here? You know how long it's been since I've seen one of these? Amazing!"

"I mean, look at all the content has got it. You don't see this anymore. They're gone. These kids don't know what they're missing. They still make these papers here," he added.

Sunday's race, i.e., the HighPoint.com 400 will start at 2:30 pm ET, with live coverage on the USA Network and NBC Sports. Fans may also listen to radio updates on MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.

Brad Keselowski will enter the 160-lap event tenth in the NASCAR Cup Series standings with 558 points to his name. He is 8th in the playoff picture, just behind fellow Ford driver and reigning Cup Series champion, Ryan Blaney.

Keselowski had a poor start to the season with back-to-back DNFs at the Daytona 500 and the Ambetter Health 400. However, he bounced back strongly in the races that followed. The 40-year-old won the Goodyear 400 in Darlington while finishing as runner-up at the Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 400, the GEICO 500 and the Coca-Cola 600.

Brad Keselowski reflects on a "super religious" family affair

In a recent episode of Kevin Harvick's 'Happy Hour Podcast', Brad Keselowski revealed that he had never taken even a sip of alcohol before he landed the #2 Miller Lite Ford deal with Team Penske in 2011. This means the former Cup Series champion was a complete teetotaller till the age of 27.

"Before I got the Miller deal, I didn’t drink at all," Keselowski told Harvick. "I grew up in a household that didn’t drink. It wasn’t like a super religious thing, but my parents just didn’t drink. There was no alcohol in the house growing up that I remember. I just never really had an interest in it."

Keselowski even stayed away from dating. His father, Bob Keselowski, who used to race in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and the ARCA Hooters SuperCar Series, had strictly forbidden his son from going out with girls at the time.

"So, there was no drinking, there was no dating, there was none of those things because I wanted to race and my dad was very clear, like ‘If you even touch any of that stuff, done.’ I don’t think he meant it in a mean way. It was probably actually really good for me. If you’re going to do this, you’re going to be 100% focused. We’re not doing anything at all. I’m not wasting my time with this," Keselowski added.

However, as longtime NASCAR fans would remember, Brad Keselowski made sure to get drunk on a huge pitcher of beer after winning the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship in 2012. Later, he even appeared in an interview with SportsCenter completely wasted with the pitcher of beer still in his hand.