Ryan Blaney was a dominant drive all through the NASCAR Cup race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, main most race laps — 124 of a attainable 267 — and profitable the opening stage.
The Crew Penske driver was cruising in third place in the course of the last stage of the race, simply behind Kyle Larson and Bubba Wallace as they battled for the race lead. However immediately, an enormous plume of white smoke billowed out the again of his No. 12 Ford Mustang, signalling a catastrophic engine failure.
Blaney’s race was over simply 60 laps shy of the end, putting thirty sixth of the unique 37 starters.
Ryan Blaney, Crew Penske Ford
“I didn’t have any warning,” stated Blaney afterwards. “It simply laid over after I acquired again to wide-open down the entrance, and that was all she wrote. It simply stinks. We had a very quick Ford Mustang. We led lots of laps. We misplaced slightly little bit of observe place there with some stuff on pit street, however acquired again to 3rd and it was an excellent race between me and Bubba and Larson. I’m certain Denny [Hamlin] was gonna get again into it.
“It was gonna be a heck of a battle the final 60 laps or so, but it surely simply didn’t actually work out for us. We’ll proceed to maintain preventing. I admire the 12 guys for simply giving me a sizzling rod. It was an extremely, extremely quick race automobile as we speak. We’ll hold our heads up. It’s simply a kind of issues the place it’s probably not going our method proper now, however the excellent news is we’re bringing quick automobiles, and that’s all you’ll be able to ask for. We’ll carry on shifting.”
Surprisingly, this is not Blaney’s first engine blowup this yr — a failure that has develop into more and more uncommon in fashionable NASCAR. Two weeks in the past at Phoenix, the same engine challenge ended his day. A crash at Las Vegas final weekend signifies that Blaney now has a stretch of three consecutive DNFs after simply six races.
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