Despite back-to-back DNFs Ryan Blaney poised for title defense
Ryan Blaney believes the experience he gained in last year’s NASCAR Cup Series championship run will inform his defense of the title this season.
Ryan Blaney believes the experience he gained in last year’s NASCAR Cup Series championship run will inform his defense of the title this season.
Reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Ryan Blaney comes into this year’s Playoff primed to defend his title, and the driver of the No. 12 Team Penske Ford likes his chances.
The race to defend his points advantage was over for Martin Truex Jr. almost before it began.
Ryan Blaney was so close to winning Sunday’s Brickyard 400 — twice — he could almost feel the cold metal of one of the NASCAR Cup Series’ most desirable trophies.
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.