Ryan Blaney laments 2024 championship loss as he “ran out of time” at Phoenix
Team Penke Racing veteran Ryan Blaney lamented the 2024 championship lose to his teammate Joey Logano at Phoenix.
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Team Penske Racing has continued their championship winning streak in the Next-Gen era, with Joey Logano winning his third title of his career on Sunday. He pulled of impressive win with the No:22 crew chief’s strategy helping him to take the lead over Ryan Blaney on the last restart and keeping the gap for the win.
The defending Cup champion Ryan Blaney, who secured his third successive P2 finish in the season finale, semes really disappointed by missing out on the championship. While talking about it, he admitted that the restart didn’t go as planned for him and added that he ran out of time at the end of the race, to catch up with Joey Logano.
Yeah, just worn out and just couldn’t quite get there. I tried really hard to do so. Just restart didn’t really work out and just got too far away from me. It took me a while to kind of pass a couple guys and I just could never get by Joey. I ran out of time.
Ryan Blaney said via NBC Sports.
He then went on to congratulate his teammate Joey Logano for the title win and hailed the No:22 teams’ impressive performance. Blaney added that he is happy for Logano and added that he was the only one he was ready to lose the championship.
But congrats to him, congrats to the 22 team and Pennzoil and Ford. They put together a great playoff. You know, we’re happy. If we’re going to race somebody, I’m happy it was him for the championship.
Ryan Blaney added.
Ryan Blaney hoping to come back next-season
While further talking about the loss Ryan Blaney added that he is happy that Roger Penske has won yet another title. He went onto explain that he had a heck of a battle and shared his hopes of coming back stronger next season.
Happy to be one-two for Roger [Penske]. Three in a row for Roger is super amazing, and Ford. But on my side…Everybody who really puts a lot of effort into our program and just super-fast. Just didn’t quite have enough there at the end. At least a Penske car won it, but yeah, a heck of a battle. Hope the fans enjoyed it and yeah. Hopefully, we’ll come back even stronger next year.
Ryan Blaney added.
The No:12 Ford driver is less disappointed because his veteran teammate won the title, and it has given him more hope for the 2024 season. It will be interesting to see how Blaney and team will perform in the 2025 season, with a championship to avenge.
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