Kevin Harvick overlooks defending champion Ryan Blaney in the 2024 championship battle
The 2024 NASCAR Cup season has been great for Ryan Blaney, but Kevin Harvick doesn’t see much hopes of the Penske driver making it into the championship-4.
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Team Penske Racing’s Ryan Blaney came into the 2024 season determined to prove his 2023 championship win wasn’t a fluke. Despite some struggles, the No:12 Ford Mustang driver has been strong so far this season with two wins, and coming close to many more. Now he has three more races left to put himself in the championship final like he did last season.
Ryan Blaney did have tough in the playoffs, where she remains winless. In the last six races, he has secured 4 top 10 finishes, while the other two finishes were top 30. The poor finishes were results of wrecks. Despite the good finishes, the 2014 Cup champion Kevin Harvick doesn’t see the racer making it past R-8.
He pointed out that though Blaney is the driver with the best chance of making into the next round out of the two Fords. But he doesn’t have much hope as the best place they can hope for a win is Las Vegas, but with many drivers chasing championship-4 on top-form, it will be really hard for the team to win with ease.
I think when you look at the Fords in general that are left with [Ryan] Blaney and Logano, Blaney is going to be the pick. But I can tell you this, if they do have anything that’s better, Las Vegas has been a place that the Penske cars have run well.
Kevin Harvick said via Happy Hour podcast.
Kevin Harvick gives his verdict on Joey Logano’s playoff chances
In the same episode of the podcast, Harvick also talked about Joey Logano, Blaney’s two times champion teammate. He doesn’t have much hopes for the No:22 team considering they haven’t had much success in the one and half miles. The impressive performance of the HMS and JGR cars is a big threat as well.
That 22 (Logano) team, they’ve been in positions before where they’ve been in the playoffs out of the playoffs and been able to perform. When you look at the 22 car on the mile and a half race tracks in general, they obviously haven’t been as good as what they need to be compared to Hendrick cars and the Chevrolets, the [Joe] Gibbs cars especially at Las Vegas. We saw them not run great.
Kevin Harvick said.
The Ford duo of Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney will be determined to prove their former rival wrong in the round. They will be hoping to continue Penske championship streak in the Next-Gen era, but unlike the last two season, they have more fierce battle two have with HMS and JGR.
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