Ryan Blaney is having a unbelievable 2025 NASCAR Cup Sequence season, however he nonetheless appears to be flying underneath the radar even after his victory in Saturday’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona.
Blaney, the 2023 Cup Sequence champion, has seven DNFs this 12 months. That is sufficient to maintain most groups beneath the top-10 within the standings.
However when Woman Luck has smiled on Blaney this season, he is been quick. Within the 19 races that Blaney has completed, he has 10 top-five finishes and 14 top-10 outcomes, together with wins at Nashville and Daytona. He managed to complete second within the common season
standings and enters the postseason fourth on the playoff grid.
Blaney will enter the playoffs on the heels of six consecutive top-10 finishes.
“I believe it speaks volumes to how good we’ve got been once we’ve completed races,” Blaney mentioned throughout his post-race information convention on Saturday. “Clearly, you don’t wish to have that many DNFs on the cardboard, and I’d say half these DNFs we had an excellent likelihood of successful the race or a minimum of operating prime 5.
It simply exhibits that we’ve been operating good by the races and the phases and perhaps not gotten the finishes we deserved, however we simply powered by it and go into subsequent week, and this group has been actually good all 12 months to be sincere with you.
Hopefully that simply continues, however I’m actually completely happy the place we’re at, and I believe it speaks volumes that we may very well be P2 in factors and have type of the DNFs and stuff like that by the common season. I believe it actually speaks of how good this workforce is, and hopefully we will present it over the subsequent 10 weeks.”
Blaney is searching for a 3rd consecutive Championship 4 look, and if he can get to Phoenix, he has a superb shot at avenging his 2024 defeat and successful his second championship in three years.
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