Brad Keselowski’s Fontana Win Provides Mini Respite from Kevin Harvick’s Streak

For once, Brad Keselowski, not Kevin Harvick, was NASCAR’s closer.“At the end, we caught some breaks,” Keselowski said in the winner’s media conference Sunday in Fontana, California.Closer, huh? Not like Mariano Rivera or a television show called The Closer. A NASCAR closer doesn’t shut down the opposition. He seizes the advantage.The moniker has often been used to describe Harvick. Perhaps Harvick is out of practice. The driver who has been noted for coming from nowhere to win races has recently seemed bent on utter dominance, having led 516 laps in the Sprint Cup Series’ first five races.Keselowski led only the lap that mattered at Auto Club Speedway, and thanks to one of those unruly finishes NASC...

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