{"id":554845,"date":"2026-03-23T07:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554845\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:27:10","slug":"insider-points-unemployed-nascar-crew-members-to-penske-as-ryan-blaney-pit-woes-continue-at-darlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554845\/","title":{"rendered":"Insider points unemployed NASCAR crew members to Penske as Ryan Blaney pit woes continue at Darlington"},"content":{"rendered":"

A NASCAR insider believes changes need to be made to Ryan Blaney\u2019s pit crew after a couple of mistakes happened at Darlington on Sunday. On The Teardown<\/a> podcast, Jordan Bianchi of The Athletic has a message for NASCAR pit crew members who are looking for jobs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are a pit crew member looking for a job, reach out to Team Penske this week. They may have some openings; they might need some people,\u201d Bianchi said. \u201cThat\u2019s not good, man. <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026How does that happen? Happened twice in Phoenix, happened twice today? And then they had a litany of issues last year as well. It can\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bianchi went on to say that the adjustments Penske has made to Blaney\u2019s pit crew aren\u2019t working. He then added, \u201cThis has been a continual pattern for a long period of time, and why? It doesn\u2019t seem to be happening with the other Penske cars. Why is it happening to the 12? That needs to be resolved.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan Blaney reacts to P3 finish at Darlington despite pit road issues<\/p>\n

Ryan Blaney got off to a hot start, finishing third in Stage 1 at Darlington. During his pit stop, before the start of Stage 2, Blaney\u2019s crew had an issue dealing with the left side, with Blaney having a loose lug nut. He was forced to pull into Penske teammate Austin Cindric\u2019s box to get it fixed. <\/p>\n

\u201cCome on, guys. We gotta be cleaner than that. We just cannot do this,\u201d Blaney said.<\/a> \u201cWe\u2019ve got to clean it up. We cannot afford to make mistakes like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because Blaney had a fast car, he finished third behind Brad Keselowski and winner Tyler Reddick. After the race, Blaney discussed overcoming the pit road issues. <\/p>\n

\u00a0I felt less at Phoenix. Yeah, solid car all day. I thought we had good speed. Especially long run speed. Yeah, just stuff we got to work on, pit road,\u201d he said. \u201cHopefully, we\u2019ll get better at that, address the issues that we got, and go forward. But that\u2019s really all we can do. Really proud of the 12 guys for bringing me a good car and getting it better all day and kind of adjusting to where we were in the pack.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NASCAR insider believes changes need to be made to Ryan Blaney\u2019s pit crew after a couple of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,15224,82],"class_list":["post-554845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-ryan-blaney","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554845","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=554845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}