{"id":898710,"date":"2026-09-17T03:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/898710\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T03:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:48:10","slug":"ryan-blaney-doesnt-have-any-mulligans-left-in-nascars-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/898710\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Blaney doesn&#8217;t have any mulligans left in NASCAR&#8217;s Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If not for the 14 stage points he earned in the Enjoy Illinois 300 at Gateway, Ryan Blaney would&#8217;ve left the second race of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASCAR\u00a0<\/a>Cup Series Chase outside of the top five in the standings after brake issues relegated him to a 35th-place finish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he&#8217;s fourth going into Saturday&#8217;s Bristol Night Race (7:30 p.m. ET, USA Network, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) and only 33 points back of leader Denny Hamlin. Blaney finished second to Ty Gibbs at Bristol on April 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 champion believes he doesn&#8217;t have any mulligans left if he is to claim title No. 2 this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRyan Blaney doesn&#8217;t think he can afford another bad finish in the Chase<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like for us to just have one, and that was this past weekend,&#8221; Blaney told reporters Wednesday. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think you can afford to finish in the 30s multiple times and have a shot to win. I just think that&#8217;s going to be really hard to do. I think you get maybe one. Hate to use them early.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just don&#8217;t see that you can finish outside the top 30 multiple times and have a shot. It&#8217;s just going to be too much to make up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s race is a huge opportunity for Blaney and the No. 12 team to make up ground on Hamlin, especially considering that three mile-and-a-half tracks, where Ford has not been able to keep up with Toyota this season, loom on the schedule after this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Quotes provided by NASCAR Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If not for the 14 stage points he earned in the Enjoy Illinois 300 at Gateway, Ryan Blaney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-898710","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\/898710","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=898710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}