Biased DOY committee picks NASCAR driver again

[Editor's Note: The NASCAR biased committee who decides Driver of Year Awards did their usual brown nosing to make sure they keep their NASCAR media hard card and get fed well at the races, by picking another NASCAR driver for 3rd quarter balloting. Just because NASCAR is more popular their drivers win awards for Driver of Year almost every year, totally disregarding the fact that a NASCAR driver will never win an IndyCar or F1 race because quite simply, we don't think they have the skill. IndyCar drivers have won many a NASCAR race however – AJ Foyt, Tony Stewart, Dan Gurney, Mario Andretti, etc. to name a few. So why is it that NASCAR drivers win Driver of the Year almost every year? Is the vote based on skill, or based on the desire to brown nose NASCAR?]

Brad Keselowski's winning ways, overcoming a broken ankle and other injuries, helped him win the voting as the third quarter Driver of the Year 2011. In the last seven NASCAR Sprint Cup races, in the quarter ending at Richmond International Raceway, he recorded two wins, four top-fives and seven top-12 finishes. And those two wins were earned within days of recovering from a broken ankle at a test session. Adding those victories to a previous one and an 11th place overall finish in NASCAR's regular season Keselowski earned a wild card spot for his first Chase for the Sprint Cup. In the voting Keselowski took ten first-place ballots and totaled 117 points according to the Driver of the year points system. Will Power, a Penske Racing teammate in the IndyCar series, had five first place votes and garnered 108 points. This was the first time that the same team owner (Roger Penske) had two drivers from different series finishing one-two. Kyle Busch the first quarter 2011 Driver of the Year took two first place votes and was third with a total of 67 points. Greg Anderson, the 2003 Driver of the Year from the NHRA, and Kevin Harvick, from NASCAR, also received first-place votes. A total of 18 drivers scored points in the third quarter voting. Driver of the Year Foundation