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 yr. That is sufficient to maintain most groups under the top-10 within the standings.
However when Girl 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 feel it speaks volumes to how good we’ve been once we’ve completed races,” Blaney stated throughout his post-race information convention on Saturday. “Clearly, you don’t need to have that many DNFs on the cardboard, and I’d say half these DNFs we had a great probability of successful the race or not less than operating high 5.
It simply reveals that we’ve been operating good by the races and the phases and possibly 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 yr to be trustworthy with you.
Hopefully that simply continues, however I’m actually glad the place we’re at, and I feel it speaks volumes that we may very well be P2 in factors and have form of the DNFs and stuff like that by the common season. I feel it actually speaks of how good this workforce is, and hopefully we will present it over the subsequent 10 weeks.”
Blaney is in search of a 3rd consecutive Championship 4 look, and if he can get to Phoenix, he has a wonderful shot at avenging his 2024 defeat and successful his second championship in three years.
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