Fantasy NASCAR Racing

FitzBradshaw as crew chief on the #12 and #22 Dodge Chargers driven in the NASCAR Cup Division.  In 2008, Wolfe worked with Braun Racing as crew chief of the #38 Toyota driven by Jason Leffler in the NASCAR Xfinity Series with little results.  In 2009, Wolfe worked as crew chief for CJM Racing and owner Bryan Mullet while Mike Bliss was driving CJM's #11 car; also with no results.  Finally in 2010 Wolfe was hired by an upper echelon team as Roger Penske called upon him to lead driver Brad Keselowski in the Xfinity series full time.  Keselowski and Wolfe showed great chemistry as they won six races that year and then the Xfinity series Championship.  After such a successful season in the Xfinity series Penske moved the pairing of Keselowski and Wolfe up to the Cup series.  Their first year at the premier level; they won three times and posted 10 Top 5 finishes.  The following year they reached the pinnacle of their sport.  They claimed five wins and beat Clint Bowyer by 39 points to win the Cup series championship.  Wolfe is sort of known as a 'river boat gambler'.  He likes to do strategy contrary to what most other crew chiefs do; and often is produces wins.  2013 saw them regress a bit as they were only able to get one win; but the next year they were back on track visiting victory lane six times; but finished fifth in points.  This paring continues to be productive as they continue to add up wins.  They won once in 2015; added four more in 2016 and three more times in 2017.  Penske knows a good match when he sees it and is keeping Keselowski and Wolfe together for 2018. Together since 2011, Paul Wolfe and Brad Keselowski continued to post wins. They have posted at least one win every season they have been together.  This season they posted good finishes but didn't break into the win column until the 25th race of the season.  He won the Southern 500; and followed that up the following week with a win in the Brickyard 400.  He posted a third win in a row when he won the next race at Las Vegas.  He advanced through round one of the Chase; but after two poor finishes in the second round was eliminated from the Championship hunt.  The pair was back working for Roger Penske in 2019.  Wolfe and Keselowski had a good season in 2019.  Paul led Brad to a win in the season's second race at Atlanta.  The next month they won at Martinsville and later won at Kansas.  When the playoffs started Keselowski had a great first round that saw him finish with a third, fourth, and fifth.  Round two was disappointing as they got caught up in 'the big one' at Talladega and the other two races only finished 11th and 19th.  This wasn't good enough to advance to the third round of the playoffs.  They would eventually end up in eighth place in the points.  For 2020 owner Roger Penske made some unexpected crew chief changes.  He swapped all three crew chiefs among his trio of drivers.  For 2020 Wolfe got paired with Joey Logano's; - while Logano's crew chief Todd Gordon was paired with driver Ryan Blaney.  Brad Keselowski worked with Jeremy Bullins.  Logano and Wolfe hooked up and had a season my like Wolfe had led his drivers to the previous four seasons.  They got a win at Las Vegas the second race of the season; and then won two weeks later at Phoenix.  They ran real strong until about mid-season when things just didn't go right and they had a series of finishes in the high teens and 20's.  At Loudon they seemed to get back on solid footing and started performing well again the rest of the season.  Logano pointed his way through the first two rounds of the Chase; then when round three kicked off at Kansas, he won, locking himself into the Championship race at Phoenix.  At Phoenix, both he and teammate Brad Keselowski both had good short run cars; but Chase Elliott had a good long run car.  As luck would have it the last 100 laps were run under green, and Elliott won the race and the Championship.  Logano would finish third.  For the season the duo teamed up to produce three wins; 12 Top 5 and 21 Top 10 finishes.  Wolfe was back with Logano in 2021.  It seemed to be a struggle as Logano only managed one win; and it came at the most unexpected place: at Bristol on the dirt.  They had nine Top 5 finishes and was eliminated from the Chase right before the final event.  Logano ended up ninth in the points.  Paul Wolfe was back with Joey Logano in 2022.  The season kicked off on a high note as they won the first race held at the Los Angeles Coliseum, as NASCAR put in a temporary 1/4 mile track to hold the Busch Clash race on.  Logano grabbed the win in the first Clash ever held someplace besides Daytona.  They suffered some damage in the Daytona 500, placing them two laps down at the end and in 21st position.  They had an up and down start the first eleven races with finishes as good as second and third; and as bad as 29th and 32nd.  But the duo broke through at Darlington and got their first win of the year.  A month later at Gateway they went to victory lane again, and the seemed to be able to figure out a new track faster than others.  First at L.A. then now at Gateway.  They pair had won the previous year in NASCAR's first visit to the dirt on Bristol.  When the Chase started, they opened with a fourth place run at Darlington; but a 17th at Kansas, and a 27th at Bristol saw them just squeak into the next round.  They finished second the opening race of the round of twelve; and had a 27th at Talladega, and following that with a 18th at the Roval; again they just advanced.  But the first race in the round of eight; Wolfe led Logano to the win; locking them into the final four with a shot to win the Cup Championship.  At Phoenix, they rolled in and were very quiet; almost secretive.  They didn't say much about their car, or their plans for the race.  When the green hankie dropped; they showed they had the car to beat.  They led 187 of 312 laps as no one was able to keep up with them.  This gave Logano his second Cup Championship; and was also the second Championship for Wolfe.  This one with Logano; and one with Brad Keselowski in 2012.  Wolfe also won the Xfinity Championship with Keselowski in 2010.  For a pair who had such a great 2022, they had a rather dismal 2023.  When you compare stats they don’t look to bad.  Both seasons they had eleven top five and 17 top ten finishes.  But in 2023 they only won once, compared to four wins in 2022.  They had a lot of ‘bad’ runs for a defending championship team.  They finished 30th or worse seven times, and eleven finishes of 20th or worse.  Their win locked them into the Chase, but poor finishes when the Chase started, knocked them out after the first round.  They will be back together in 2024.  To this point in his career, Wolfe has led his drivers to 38 Cup wins.  He also has seven wins in the Xfinity series; all of those coming with Keselowski.  His drivers have won the Brick Yard 400 (2018), and Southern 500 (2018).