{"id":208509,"date":"2025-10-12T23:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T23:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208509\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T23:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T23:19:06","slug":"ryan-blaney-in-must-win-nascar-playoff-situation-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/208509\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Blaney in must-win NASCAR playoff situation after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Blaney&#8217;s agenda for the penultimate round of the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASCAR\u00a0<\/a>Cup Series playoffs now only has one item on it: win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After a flat tire led to a heavy contact with the outside wall late in Stage 1 of Sunday&#8217;s South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Blaney will finish 38th in the opening race of the Round of 8. That will put the 2023 Cup Series champion in a very difficult points position going into the final two races of the Round of 8 at Talladega and Martinsville.<\/p>\n<p>Blaney was clearly dejected after the incident, which significantly hurt his chances of getting to the Championship 4 for the third year in a row and winning his second Cup Series title.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nope, no warning,&#8221; Blaney told USA Network regarding the left-front tire failure that took him out of the race. &#8220;Left-front tire blew going into (turn) 3. Unfortunate. Going home early.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRyan Blaney is now in a must-win situation<\/p>\n<p>Blaney has been in a must-win position in the Round of 8 in each of the last two years, where he answered the call both times at Martinsville. He&#8217;ll need another clutch victory at either Martinsville or Talladega this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe you look forward to those (tracks),&#8221; Blaney said. &#8220;Obviously, we have to look forward to them. Not the spot you want to be in.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Blaney&#8217;s agenda for the penultimate round of the 2025 NASCAR\u00a0Cup Series playoffs now only has one item&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-208509","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\/208509","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=208509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}