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With just a few laps to go in Stage 2 during\u00a0Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race, Ryan Blaney and Josh Berry were battling for seventh position.<\/p>\n
However, after Blaney got into the back of Berry through Turns 3 and 4, Berry slowed abruptly, with Blaney then hitting the back of the No. 21.\u00a0Blaney’s nose was destroyed and he quickly spun out.<\/p>\n
After a lengthy stay in the garage for repairs, he returned to the race over 50 laps down and finished 35th. He didn’t retaliate against Berry, who went on to score a top five finish for Wood Brothers Racing, which have a technical alliance with Blaney’s organization — Team\u00a0Penske. Berry will leave Wood Brothers Racing at season’s end to drive a Toyota for Legacy Motor Club.<\/p>\n
“First stage we weren’t great, but that run where that happened, I thought we finally got pretty good,” Blaney told NBC after the race. “Like, I was passing some cars and really running kind of the front group down a little bit. So I felt like we made good gains. And then, yeah, I mean the deal in (Turns) three and four, I just barely, accidentally, bumped the 21 [Berry] and he decided to slam on the brakes and end our day. So, I don’t really know why after just a little tiny bit of contact, not even on purpose — just lost his mind. So, unfortunately ended our day.<\/p>\n
“Like I said, I barely got him and it was on accident. We just kind of came together in the middle of the corner, wasn’t even enough to move him up the racetrack where I had position. And he just decided to end our day. So, I really appreciate that (sarcastically). Yeah.”<\/p>\n
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Berry disputed Blaney’s version of the incident, denying that there was any intentional brake-checking going on there.<\/p>\n
“Obviously Ryan, got into me pretty good there and I got up out of the groove just trying to save it and we got together,” said Berry in a brief explanation to NBC. He later spoke to a later media session that included Motorsport.com, saying he was “just trying to save it” at the exit of the corner.<\/p>\n
Blaney has fallen down to seventh in the standings due to Sunday’s result.<\/p>\n