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MADISON, ILLINOIS – SEPTEMBER 07: Ryan Blaney, driver of the #12 Menards\/Pennzoil Ford, (L) and Kyle Larson, driver of the #5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, talk after the NASCAR Cup Series Enjoy Illinois 300 at WWT Raceway on September 07, 2025 in Madison, Illinois. (Photo by Chris Graythen\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
NASCAR Cup Series<\/a> driver Ryan Blaney waited patiently to get answers firsthand.\u00a0<\/p>\n Standing off to the side as Kyle Larson fulfilled his post-Enjoy Illinois 300 media obligations, Blaney\u2019s chance finally opened up and he marched up to his playoff rival to ask \u201cwhat I did to deserve getting turned,\u201d he said, as reported by NASCAR.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Larson claimed responsibility for a \u201cmistake\u201d and Blaney believed the 2021 circuit champion didn\u2019t make contact with the No. 12 Ford \u201con purpose, but at the end of the day, I got spun around.\u201d<\/p>\n The situation developed as they battled for P5 on Lap 135. After switching spots several times over the previous rotations, Larson struck Blaney\u2019s left-rear quarter panel<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI misjudged it,\u201d Larson said. \u201cThe lap before, I went in, I was able to get to his door and get him tight. The next time, I was trying to do the same thing and wasn\u2019t going to get there and was going to tuck back in line and just clipped him. He should be upset. I just misjudged it.\u201d<\/p>\n Blaney, the 2023 series titleholder, kept his machine from striking the wall and recovered from the mid-race melee and earned a P4, behind winner Denny Hamlin<\/a>, Chase Briscoe and Chase Elliott. Larson finished<\/p>\n Will Blaney carry a grudge into next Saturday night\u2019s Round of 16 finale at Bristol Motor Speedway? Larson enters the Bass Pro Shops Night Race with 60 points and Blaney 42. With 11 points, Austin Cindric ranks No. 12.<\/p>\n Austin Dillon (-11), Shane van Gisbergen (-15), Alex Bowman (-35) and Josh Berry (-45) enter the weekend below the cutoff line.<\/p>\n NASCAR Cup Series Bass Pro Shops Night Race Entry List<\/p>\n The NASCAR Cup Series announced the entry list for the Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway on Thursday night:<\/p>\n Entry, Driver, Car No.<\/p>\n 1, Ross Chastain, No. 1 Chevrolet Here is a list of NASCAR National Series and ARCA Menards Series events this week at Bristol Motor Speedway. All times ET:<\/p>\n Thursday<\/p>\n ARCA Series practice, 1 p.m. Friday<\/p>\n Xfinity Series practice, 2 p.m. Saturday<\/p>\n Cup Series Bass Pro Shops Night Race, 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tJeff Hawkins<\/a> Jeff Hawkins is a career sportswriter who has collected 12 industry awards, including two Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) honors. Author of four youth sports books, Hawkins has served as a beat writer for the Carolina Panthers, Chicago Blackhawks, Adirondack IceHawks, Adirondack Lumberjacks and Hickory Crawdads. A husband and father, Hawkins enjoys live eclectic music, mountain biking and watching Film Noir. More about Jeff Hawkins<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMore Heavy on NASCAR\n\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tLoading more stories\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty MADISON, ILLINOIS – SEPTEMBER 07: Ryan Blaney, driver of the #12 Menards\/Pennzoil Ford, (L) and Kyle Larson,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-129687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2, Austin Cindric No. 2 Ford
\n3, Austin Dillon, No. 3 Chevrolet
\n4, Noah Gragson, No. 4 Ford
\n5, Kyle Larson, No. 5 Chevrolet
\n6, Brad Keselowski, No. 6 Ford
\n7, Justin Haley, No. 7 Chevrolet
\n8, Kyle Busch, No. 8 Chevrolet
\n9, Chase Elliott, No. 9 Chevrolet
\n10, Ty Dillon, No. 10 Chevrolet
\n11, Denny Hamlin, No. 11 Toyota
\n12, Ryan Blaney, No. 12 Ford
\n13, AJ Allmendinger, No. 16 Chevrolet
\n14, Chris Buescher, No. 17 Ford
\n15, Chase Briscoe, No. 19, Toyota
\n16, Christopher Bell, No. 20 Toyota
\n17, Josh Berry, No. 21 Ford
\n18, Joey Logano, No. 22 Ford
\n19, Bubba Wallace, No. 23 Toyota
\n20, William Byron, No. 24 Chevrolet
\n21, Austin Hill, No. 33 Chevrolet
\n22, Todd Gilliland, No. 34 Ford
\n23, Riley Herbst, No. 35 Toyota
\n24, Zane Smith, No. 38 Ford
\n25, Cole Custer, No. 41 Ford
\n26, John Hunter Nemechek, No. 42 Toyota
\n27, Erik Jones, No. 43 Toyota
\n28, Tyler Reddick, No. 45 Toyota
\n29, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., No. 47 Ford
\n30, Alex Bowman, No. 48 Chevrolet
\n31, Cody Ware, No. 51 Ford
\n32, Ty Gibbs, No. 54 Toyota
\n33, Ryan Preece, No. 60 Ford
\n34, Chad Finchum, No. 66 Ford
\n35, Corey Heim, No. 67 Toyota
\n36, Michael McDowell, No. 71 Chevrolet
\n37, Carson Hocevar, No. 77 Chevrolet
\n38, Shane van Gisbergen, No. 88 Chevrolet
\n39, Daniel Suarez, No. 99 Chevrolet
\nNASCAR National Series, ARCA Menards Series On Tap<\/p>\n
\nARCA Series qualifying, 2 p.m.
\nTruck Series practice, 3:05 p.m.
\nTruck Series qualifying, 4:10 p.m.
\nARCA Series Bush\u2019s Beans 200 race, 5:30 p.m.
\nTruck Series UNOH 200 presented by Ohio Logistics race, 8 p.m.<\/p>\n
\nXfinity Series qualifying, 3:05 p.m.
\nCup Series practice, 4:30 p.m.
\nCup Series qualifying, 5:40 p.m.
\nXfinity Series Food City 300 race, 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n