NASCAR CUP SERIES: FIREKEEPERS CASINO 400

August 22, 2021

Ryan Blaney

Frontstretch

An Interview with:

Q. No burnout because he said, I was so exhausted from the final few laps, I didn't have time to think about one. Maybe the hardest 10 laps you've driven in your life, Ryan?

RYAN BLANEY: Yeah, pretty close to it. Yeah, got a great push by the 18 on the restart, was able to get clear there. Michigan is a matter of pretty much running wide open and trying to play the air game. I hate you have to race that way. That's how you have to run. Worked out for us.

Man, I'm proud of everybody on the 12 team. Man, we weren't great to start the day off, kept working and working, got a lot better. It's so cool to get in Victory Lane for Ford here. This is such a huge win for Ford, Penske, Menards Cardell, Bodyarmor. I can't thank them enough, what they do. That was cool, man. I'm fired up. I'm fired up.

Q. After the first run of the day, if I told you you were going to come back and win this thing, what would you have told me?

RYAN BLANEY: I'd tell you you were crazy. We just worked on it a lot. We had our problems early. We took a lot of time to try to fix it. We got better and better. Picked a good lane on the restart there and got the push.

It was really the push. The 18 pushing me, that was the whole thing. I appreciate Kyle for pushing me through there. Thanks everybody for coming. Hope you enjoyed it.