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was a dominant drive all through the NASCAR Cup race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, main most race laps — 124 of a doable 267 — and successful the opening stage.
The driver was cruising in third place in the course of the ultimate stage of the race, simply behind and as they battled for the race lead. However instantly, an enormous plume of white smoke billowed out the again of his No. 12 Ford Mustang, signalling a catastrophic engine failure.
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Blaney’s race was over simply 60 laps shy of the end, inserting thirty sixth of the unique 37 starters.
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“I didn’t have any warning,” stated Blaney afterwards. “It simply laid over after I received 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 a variety of laps. We misplaced just a little little bit of monitor place there with some stuff on pit street, however received again to 3rd and it was an important race between me and Bubba and Larson. I’m positive Denny [Hamlin] was gonna get again into it.
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“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 scorching rod. It was an extremely, extremely quick race automotive in the present day. We’ll preserve our heads up. It’s simply a type of issues the place it’s probably not going our manner proper now, however the excellent news is we’re bringing quick vehicles, and that’s all you’ll be able to ask for. We’ll carry on shifting.”
Heavy smoke seen after Ryan Blaney, Workforce Penske Ford engine blow
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Unusually, this is not Blaney’s first engine blowup this 12 months — a failure that has change into more and more uncommon in trendy NASCAR. Two weeks in the past at Phoenix, an analogous engine difficulty ended his day. A crash at Las Vegas final weekend implies that Blaney now has a stretch of three consecutive DNFs after simply six races.
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