Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski have set the NASCAR circuit ablaze this year, and it’s not even April yet. The two drivers have had their share of words since the Kobalt Tools 500 in Atlanta on March 7, when Keselowski ran Edwards too hard and Edwards retaliated with a bump that sent Keselowski flying, and the feud is only heating up between the Cup Series heavyweights.

Though Edwards and Keselowski have insisted they’ve settled the score on the racetrack after Atlanta, both drivers have a history of bumps and nudges that seemed to have started this time last year, when the two lit up the racetrack at the Talladega Superspeedway. The 2009 Aaron’s 499 was a seemingly ordinary race until the final lap, and it was Keselowski and Edwards who were involved in the day’s most talked-about event.

Brad Keselowski posted his very first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win on April 26, 2009 at ‘Dega, but not without a fiery finish. The aggressive young driver made his first Cup Series victory a memorable one during last year’s Aaron’s 499, competing neck-and-neck with Carl Edwards until the final lap of the race. In a gutsy move made for the history books, Keselowski drafted Edwards going into the final stretch, attempting to pull a race-winning maneuver around Edwards at the last possible moment.

When No. 99 went to block him, however, Keselowski had two options: cross the yellow line and surrender a victory or plow through Edwards and capture the win. He opted for the latter choice, of course, and ended up spinning Edwards into the air, sending his car flying No prescription cialis against the wall and injuring a few fans in the process.

Edwards Cialis Professional eventually walked out of his car unharmed, pulling a Ricky Bobby (appropriately at the Talladega racetrack) and running the final stretch of the race to the finish line. After the ’09 race, Edwards said he had no ill will toward Keselowski, telling the Charlotte Observer, “Brad was doing everything right. He was pushing, and that’s what you have to do to win. If he drives below the yellow line, he loses the race, so what’s a guy to do?”

After a repeat Edwards-Keselowski performance at Atlanta this year (despite the other driver crashing), however, perhaps the two Cup Series drivers have more animosity toward each other than last year’s ‘Dega race let on. Carl Edwards is known for temper flares, and Brad Keselowski for his over-aggressive driving. The Atlanta race turned attention toward this year’s Aaron’s 499 at Talladega, and for good reason.

Racing fans with Aaron’s 499 tickets to the upcoming showdown will get to see Edwards and Keselowski duke it out on the track once again at the 2010 Talladega race, and the Sprint Cup Series can only hope history doesn’t repeat itself with the final lap of this year’s Talladega race. Will Brad Keselowski follow up his first Cup Series win in ’09 with another rendezvous with Victory Lane, or will Carl Edwards finally get revenge and snag his first Cup Series win of the year? It’s all to come on April 25 as NASCAR’s speediest stock car racers zoom into “The Big One” in Alabama, and tickets to this year’s Talladega race can still be purchased online.

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