Blaney had no warning earlier than his second engine failure of the 12 months

Ryan Blaney was a dominant drive all through the NASCAR Cup race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, main most race laps — 124 of a potential 267 — and profitable the opening stage.

The Workforce Penske driver was cruising in third place through the last stage of the race, simply behind Kyle Larson and Bubba Wallace as they battled for the race lead. However instantly, a large plume of white smoke billowed out the again of his No. 12 Ford Mustang, signalling a catastrophic engine failure.

Blaney’s race was over simply 60 laps shy of the end, inserting thirty sixth of the unique 37 starters.

“I didn’t have any warning,” stated Blaney afterwards. “It simply laid over once I bought again to wide-open down the entrance, and that was all she wrote. It simply stinks. We had a extremely quick Ford Mustang. We led lots of laps. We misplaced somewhat little bit of monitor place there with some stuff on pit street, however bought again to 3rd and it was an incredible race between me and Bubba and Larson. I’m certain Denny [Hamlin] was gonna get again into it. 

“It was gonna be a heck of a battle the final 60 laps or so, nevertheless it simply didn’t actually work out for us. We’ll proceed to maintain preventing. I respect the 12 guys for simply giving me a scorching rod. It was an extremely, extremely quick race automotive right this moment. We’ll maintain our heads up. It’s simply a kind of issues the place it’s not likely going our approach proper now, however the excellent news is we’re bringing quick vehicles, and that’s all you may ask for. We’ll carry on transferring.”

Heavy smoke seen after Ryan Blaney, Workforce Penske Ford engine blow

Picture by: Chris Graythen – Getty Photos

Surprisingly, this is not Blaney’s first engine blowup this 12 months — a failure that has change into more and more uncommon in fashionable NASCAR. Two weeks in the past at Phoenix, an analogous engine problem 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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