NASCAR CUP SERIES: STRAIGHT TALK WIRELESS 400

October 27, 2024

Ryan Blaney

Pit Lane Interview

Q. Ryan Blaney comes up one spot short. I saw you get out of the car shaking your head. What are you feeling in this moment?

RYAN BLANEY: It's obvious: disappointment. Yeah, I had a great shot to win. Didn't have a very good last lap. Man, I thought I got into three hard. The 45 just blitzed off in there. It stuck for him, which is pretty impressive.

Yeah, I hate to give one away there like that. I don't know if we gave it away. I mean, we got the lead back after losing on the restart. Yeah, just last bit didn't really play out for us. Definitely stinks.

Appreciate everybody on the 12 team for bringing a really fast race car. Had a great shot to go to Phoenix. Still got one more chance. Look forward to that.

Appreciate Menards, Ford Performance, Richmond, Advance Auto Parts, Body Armor, Wabash, everybody.

I'll be thinking through it all night, what I should have done different probably. That's just the way it goes. Overall really proud of the effort. Hopefully we can bring it to them next week.

Q. Disappointment right now, but you mentioned next week. You won last year to get into the Championship 4 at Martinsville. Is it optimistic at this point or you're going to have to sort through these feelings first?

RYAN BLANEY: Yeah, I mean, it will suck for the night, then we'll look forward to Martinsville tomorrow morning. We try to forget things quick. I've tried to do that more and more as I've gotten older, move on to the next thing, good, bad or indifferent, focus on the task. This team will do it.

Yeah, I can't say how proud I am of them coming in and understanding what we needed to do. Just a shame it didn't work out.

Yeah, we had good fortune at Martinsville last year. Hopefully we can bring the same kind of speed and be in contention to win.