Ryan Blaney reiterated his strong motivation to win Sunday’s Brickyard 400 – at a track owned by his boss Roger Penske and for a team that’s IndyCar driver Josef Newgarden won the Indianapolis 500 in May.
Team Penske had a pretty good Sunday on the track.
Though it took a few months into the season, the three-car Team Penske organization is the first multi-car team to secure 2024 Playoff berths for all of its entries.
Coming into the inaugural NASCAR Cup series race at Iowa Speedway, Ryan Blaney had not paid a visit to victory lane in 2024.
As Martin Truex Jr.’s No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota sat on the Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway frontstretch in a painful stall only yards before the checkered flag on Sunday afternoon, it was a vivid and frustrating microcosm of the former NASCAR Cup Series champion’s day and season. So good. So close.
Perhaps nowhere in North America, and maybe the world, were two people more disappointed than Christopher Bell and Ryan Blaney were Sunday evening.
Last year’s Coca-Cola 600 winner saw his hopes for repeat come to an end early Sunday night.
It appears Ryan Blaney will be carrying a grudge in the coming weeks.
Chase Elliott is a two-time Talladega race winner and has always been strong on the big tracks.
Ryan Blaney’s top five finish Sunday at Martinsville was far from a walk in the park.