NASCAR News: Brad Keselowski confirms fix in the works for major issue

NASCAR Cup Series driver and team owner Brad Keselowski has revealed that there's behind-the-scenes work going on to fix an issue which could be dangerous for drivers.

Cool suits were a (*ahem*) hot topic at the race at COTA earlier this month, with a number of drivers' failing during the race – leading to at least one being stretchered to the infield care center for a check-over after the chequered flag.

Keselowski, who co-owns RFK Racing in addition to driving the team's No. 6 car, has since spoken about an instance when his suit failed, saying that the cooling shirts aren't designed to 'fail to safe', meaning that when they go wrong...they go very wrong.

The cool suits are supposed to be liquid cooled, but that means that when the water in the tubes isn't being cooled down, it just gets hotter and hotter, putting the driver in a worse situation than if he didn't have the cooling shirt at all.

Keselowski: Devastating when cool suits fail

The one-time Cup Series champion revealed that there is something in the works to sort out the notoriously unreliable gear, but that nothing has been found to fully solve the issues yet.

He said: “Our group, we let the teams have that autonomy of what they want to run, so if the driver wants to run a cool shirt, he runs a cool shirt and we try to provide the necessary engineering support to make sure that there isn’t an issue.

"I had one last year where we probably didn’t do a good enough job with that and we came back in and buttoned it up. Cool suits are a tough thing because they’re not designed in our environment to fail to safe, so when they fail, it’s fairly devastating and occasionally those things are gonna happen.

"It’s unfortunate when it happens to anyone, not just our team. There’s a solve that’s being worked on for all the different teams, but nothing seems to have been bulletproof yet. It’s one of the nuances of currently racing in the Cup Series.”