NASCAR: Keselowski hits out at Gordon over alleged TV bias

Above: No smiley from Brad K. after the race...

Brad Keselowski overcame an early pit road penalty to finish third in the Axalta 400 on Monday at Pocono Raceway but was critical of how the FOX Sports 1 broadcast team handled the entire ordeal.

Keselowski was called back to pit road following his second pit stop on lap 23 due to what NASCAR officials deemed was a crew member using his body to illegally modify the car in order to improve its aerodynamic performance.

His tire changer leaned into the right side of the No. 2 Ford and left a dent, which serves to improve sideforce and the overall handling of the car. The team was ordered to fix the dent before Keselowski was allowed back on the track.

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FOX broadcaster Jeff Gordon compared the body slam to a similar incident the No. 2 team got away with earlier in the season at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Gordon said on the air that NASCAR penalized Keselowski for it, but that wasn't the case as the 2012 champion was actually caught speeding on pit road before rebounding to Victory Lane.

Keselowski lashed out afterward at Gordon's perceived bias as a broadcaster.

"They need to get some people that aren't inbred to the sport and own teams and have internal knowledge, because that is pretty crappy," Keselowski said after the race. "It is what it is. It's not that I don't like Jeff Gordon in the booth, it's just that you need to have people in the booth that don't own teams or have commercial interests in the sport, because they say things that are very biased."

Gordon spent 24 seasons driving the same No. 24 entry that Chase Elliott piloted to a fourth-place finish on Monday. He's also listed as the majority owner of the No. 48 driven by Jimmie Johnson.

For his part, Gordon took to Twitter to apologize for the mistake and admitted bias toward "anyone making it interesting...":