{"id":869028,"date":"2026-08-23T22:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T22:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/869028\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T22:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T22:52:21","slug":"ryan-blaney-wins-nascar-cup-race-at-new-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/869028\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Blaney wins NASCAR Cup race at New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bubba Wallace got within half a second of race leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\/players\/ryan_blaney\/356186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ryan Blaney<\/a> in the closing laps, but a left-front lock-up going into turn 3 with a handful of laps to go proved to be a deciding blow, as Blaney won Sunday&#8217;s Dollar Tree 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway for his third win of the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASCAR\u00a0<\/a>Cup Series season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blaney, racing on only two fresh right-side tires on the final run as opposed to Wallace&#8217;s four, expertly carved through lapped traffic in the closing laps and hung on for his second consecutive New Hampshire win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The race started in wet conditions after an afternoon rain shower, though teams put slick tires on at a Lap 40 competition caution.<\/p>\n<p>After a slow stop early in the race that set him back to 14th, crew chief Jonathan Hassler gave Blaney two tires to get him back to the lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good call after our issue on pit road,&#8221; Blaney told USA Network. &#8220;We took two on the end to hopefully get the lead, and we did. Just trying to manage my stuff. I knew those four tire guys would pressure me eventually. Bubba came on pretty hard there. What a fun day, starting in the rain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The victory is the 20th of Blaney&#8217;s Cup Series career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wallace finished runner-up, but it was third-place finishers Josh Berry, who had a slow pit stop that forced him to make a late charge, who gained the most on Blaney over the final run. However, Berry got caught up in lapped traffic, which prohibited him from making a run at Wallace for second.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wallace, Berry, Christopher Bell and Kyle Larson rounded out the top five, with Ty Gibbs, series points leader Denny Hamlin, polesitter Tyler Reddick, Ryan Preece and Noah Gragson completing the top 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Notable results<\/p>\n<p>Other notable finishers include Brad Keselowski in 11th, Joey Logano in 14th, Carson Hocevar in 19th, Shane van Gisbergen in 20th and Chase Elliott in 25th.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Van Gisbergen holds a 31-point advantage over Preece for the 16th and final Chase spot going into the Aug. 29 regular season finale at Daytona. Denny Hamlin clinched the No. 1 seed in the Chase, holding a 77-point lead over Blaney going into Daytona.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bubba Wallace got within half a second of race leader Ryan Blaney in the closing laps, but a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-869028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869028","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=869028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}