Busch responds to Keselowski's blog on their turbulent past

By foxsports
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Less than a month ago, Brad Keselowski wrote a personal blog detailing his on-track, off-track rivalry with Kyle Busch.

The series had just come off the Phoenix race weekend and Busch had missed his fourth straight race after sustaining injuries during the season-opening XFINITY Series race at Daytona International Speedway.

The 2012 Sprint Cup champion discussed how Busch ignored him when he first tried to say hello in 2001 at Indianapolis Raceway Park (now Lucas Oil Raceway), and another cold encounter at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2006.

Read Keselowski's full blog post here.

While Keselowski painted the picture of Busch in a negative light, Busch said Wednesday he remembers things a bit differently.

When asked if he had read the blog while recovering from his injuries, Busch said, "I guess I read it. I don't know what I read, but I guess I read it."

Busch was not upset Keselowski wrote about their turbulent past, and even said it took "guts to write it," but said the timing was poor and it was simply because Keselowski missed making stories with him on the track, so he "made a story" about them off the track. 

As far as Keselowski's version of their first encounter where he supposedly ignored Brad completely, Busch said he has no recollection.

"Not one percent of that do I recollect. Why would I be sitting at the back of my hauler the first time somebody comes up to me and says hello and I just ignore them? That doesn't make any sense to me, especially me being a 16-year-old kid just getting into the sport," he said. "Whether that was before or after qualifying when I just wadded up my truck and had to start at the back in a backup truck at IRP, I don't know. Like I said, I don't recollect that. It might have just been after Jack Roush (co-owner of Roush Fenway Racing) chewed my rear off, so again I don't recollect that."

Now, the encounter at Bristol in 2006? Busch remembers that one just fine.

"The second one I do recollect because, yeah, it was weekly (Keselowski) making an ass of himself (by) wrecking people and being an idiot, so I had no respect for him so I didn't want to talk to him," he said. "That's my take on his story."