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CUP: NASCAR Won’t Discipline Keselowski For Tweeting During 500
NASCAR was OK with Brad Keselowski tweeting throughout the 2-hour red flag period in the Daytona 500...
Bob Pockrass  | http://www.scenedaily.com  |  Posted February 29, 2012   Daytona Beach, FL
Brad Keselowski is an avid user of Twitter. (Photo: LAT Photographic)
Tweet away, Brad.

Penske Racing's Brad Keselowski will not face any NASCAR discipline and will be allowed to keep his cell phone in the race car during events, NASCAR officials announced Tuesday.

Keselowski tweeted throughout the 2-hour red flag after the Daytona 500 was stopped following Juan Pablo Montoya's accident with a jet dryer at Daytona International Speedway.

While it made Keselowski a social media darling, there were questions whether it violated NASCAR rules. Teams are prohibited from having any recording devices that are not for internal competition purposes (in other words, they can't put a camera in a car to film video for a commercial) and all two-way communication devices are supposed to be analog and not digital.

“NASCAR will not penalize Brad Keselowski for his use of Twitter during last night’s Daytona 500," NASCAR said in a statement. "Nothing we’ve seen from Brad violates any current rules pertaining to the use of social media during races. As such, he won’t be penalized. We encourage our drivers to use social media to express themselves as long as they do so without risking their safety or that of others.”

NASCAR spokesman David Higdon said drivers will be allowed to have cell phones in their car. He said there was no immediate concern that a driver could use a cell phone to tap into the car's electronic fuel injection system.

"We have no concerns about last night," Higdon said. "If there's any concern they'll look closely at that within our competition team but certainly nothing that we think is an issue right now. And it's not a two-way radio as we define it."

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