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BRISTOL, TENNESSEE – SEPTEMBER 13: Ryan Blaney, driver of the #12 Menards\/Sylvania Ford, waits backstage during pre-race ceremonies prior to the NASCAR Cup Series Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway on September 13, 2025 in Bristol, Tennessee. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Ryan Blaney has a known reputation for being a nice guy on, and off, the track in the NASCAR Cup Series. As the driver of the No. 12 Ford for Team Penske and 11 other Playoff eligible drivers head to New Hampshire Motor Speedway<\/a> this weekend, he\u2019s trying to maintain that image.<\/p>\n However, as the Round of 12 begins, the 2023 NCS Champion will be pushed \u2013 literally at times \u2013 by his fellow competitors to possibly race differently.<\/p>\n Ryan Was Raised Right<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s always this discussion about it\u2019s been brought up specifically about me like, \u2018Hey, do you think guys take advantage of you because you race a certain way and maybe they feel like they can take more of an advantage of you,’\u201d Blaney said, via a NASCAR Media Call. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t know. My dad taught me at a young age when I was getting going that you give respect and you hope to get it back.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve tried to be really respectful, no matter what it is \u2013 when I was a rookie \u2013 and as I\u2019ve been in it for awhile, I try to be respectful and it\u2019s just not in my nature to be the rough guy. That\u2019s just not how I was raised. That\u2019s not how my dad taught me to race. It\u2019s not how the guys I grew up racing late models around raced. We all respected one another.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, if you just kind of get racing hard with somebody, well then you put that in your brain and maybe you run them harder. I\u2019m not one that\u2019s going to go out and intentionally turn someone around or things like that.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the biggest statement you can make is, \u2018I\u2019m just going to beat you clean, and I\u2019m never going to tough you.\u2019 That\u2019s a bigger statement.\u201d<\/p>\n Dave Blaney, Ryan\u2019s dad, made 473 NCS starts, was the 1984 USAC Silver Crown Champion, 1995 World of Outlaws Champion and 2014 inductee into the National Sprint Cup Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n Looking to Loudon for a Good Round of 12 Start<\/p>\n Blaney hasn\u2019t won at the Loudon, NH track in 12 previous starts. His stats show only two top five and four top 10 finishes. In his last three outings in the Granite State, he has finishes of 18th, 22nd and a 25th last year.<\/p>\n However, this season the team has rock solid momentum in its favor coming into NHIS. Through the last nine races, the No 12 Team Penske group has finishes of 10th or better in eight events with five of those being in the top 10. That includes a win at Daytona International Speedway<\/a>.<\/p>\n Despite the past NHIS stats, Blaney likes what he and the team have going on right now.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like our group just keeps getting better and better every year,\u201d he said. \u201cI pretty much have the same guys I\u2019ve had from that championship year and just that camaraderie and working together year after year, week after week. Everyone gets closer and just build that bond and I\u2019ve been really happy with how they\u2019ve been performing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like New Hampshire has been one of those tracks where we have run well and just not really finished where we deserved. I felt really good there last year. \u00a0We were running second during the rain and got turned around there on one of the last restarts.<\/p>\n \u201cThe first part of it is trying to have a car that runs up towards the front. I am happy that New Hampshire has gotten a playoff race. But I think navigating the turn No. 3 bump is always pretty big. Hopefully, we can get the finish that I feel like we deserve there and just try to stay out of trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tTim Packman<\/a> Tim Packman is a journalist for Heavy.com covering NASCAR. He grew up around the short tracks of Western New York watching his dad, stepdad and step brother race. His uncle was the head starter at many area tracks and member of the FOAR Score Hall of Fame.
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\nTim’s passion for racing took him to the announcer’s tower and writing program stories for multiple tracks in the area, namely Lancaster National Speedway. In 2000, he moved to Mooresville, NC to become an award-winning journalist for NASCAR.com. He took a job with Dale Earnhardt, Inc. as the team’s Communications Director and was part of two Daytona 500 wins and two NASCAR Championships.
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\nThe announcing experience led to becoming a Pit Reporter and News Director for MRN Radio. A return to the team side at Richard Childress Racing as the Director of Corporate Communications took place, which also included another Championship.
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\nFrom 2015 to 2018, Tim returned to where his career began in 1994 – Lancaster National Speedway & Dragway – as the Track President. He earned Short Track Promoter of the Year awards in 2016 and 2017.
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\nUpon returning to NC, he joined The Garage Shop as Communications Director and host of it’s Podcast and MAV-TV docuseries “Legacy of Speed” talking about Land Speed Racing at Bonneville, and other places.
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\nTim has hosted two other Podcasts, namely “Pub Table Racers,” and wrote three books. One was with NASCAR Hall of Famer Bobby Allison titled, “Bobby Allison, a Racer’s Racer” and two Children’s books, “Funny Dan the Race Car Man” and “Petey the Pace Car.”
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\nHe also served in the US Navy. More about Tim Packman<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n