Former NASCAR champion Brad Keselowski has put a timeline on his eventual retirement from the sport.
The 2012 champ is currently sidelined with a broken femur sustained on a family ski trip, announcing on Thursday that he will miss the pre-season exhibition Clash at Bowman Gray.
Keselowski will turn 42 in the week before the season-opening Daytona 500, but told Fox Sports' Bob Pockrass that he doesn't want to hang it up for a good few years yet – aiming to still be going in his late 40s.
The RFK Racing co-owner also admitted he's found an upside to his injury recovery, saying he's enjoying being forced to spend so much of his time at home with his children.
Keselowski: There are rewarding parts of injury recovery
"I really want to run into my late 40s," he revealed. "There's some actually kind of rewarding parts of it – I'm at my house all day, every day, so I get to see my kids a lot right now, and I'm enjoying that part of it.
"I'm enjoying the challenge of having a great team of people around me and putting the work in. If anything, it's a reminder of what my life would be like if I wasn't racing. And it makes me want to race."
He also revealed that he began getting texts about early reports of Greg Biffle's tragic death while in the ambulance on the way to hospital for his own injuries.
"I was thinking I was having one the worst days of my life – I was in agonizing pain and all kinds of problems going on. And then you see something like that, you just think to yourself, ‘My problems can be way worse'."
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