![]() “I think all of the drivers came together and really brought something to the table, but I think there was a huge cultural transformation that I was a part of, for sure, that went from, ‘Hey, speedway races are just where we go to wreck four cars a year,’ to ‘Hey, let’s go here and try to win the race,’” Keselowski said. Keselowski says the credit for Team Penske’s success at those tracks goes to many. Blaney saw Logano and Keselowski win seven of 16 races at Daytona and Talladega from 2015-18 before he won the fall Talladega race in 2019. That’s what Blaney has done, first when when he was at the Wood Brothers, an affiliate of Team Penske, from 2015-17 and then at Penske after 2018 when he moved over to the No. You just have to kind of figure it out. It’s different for everybody.” “I’m not any of these other guys I’ve ever raced against, but I’ve looked at every one of them and seen what they’ve done and tried to add some things to what I do on top of just learning naturally and having experience and learning who you are and what your makeup is. I’m not Tony Stewart. I’m not Dale (Earnhardt) Jr. “You can maybe look at what they’re doing and try to add the good things to what you are, but the bottom line is I’m not Jeff Gordon. “You can’t model yourself after somebody,” Logano said. EsQP2NeRlBīoth Logano and Keselowski are calculating and aggressive at Daytona and Talladega. Is this finally the year Ryan wins the #Daytona500? says yes. There were some interesting conversations that happened.” “It was cool being a 21-year-old kid sitting in there with Brad and Joey … and listen to them talk about the speedway stuff when I didn’t know much about it ,” Blaney said. Both have different ways of approaching speedway racing and Blaney absorbed the lessons. He’s won a series-high three of the last 13 races at Daytona and Talladega.īlaney’s success at these tracks can be traced to what he learned from Keselowski and Logano. Blaney has twice finished runner-up in the Daytona 500 and was fourth in last year’s race. Blaney starts seventh.īlaney is among the favorites (along with Logano) in today’s race. ![]() ![]() Logano starts third after winning his qualifying race Thursday. What Keselowski started, Logano continued, followed by Blaney and Austin Cindric, the reigning Daytona 500 champion. No other Cup team can match that in the same time. That organization has won at least one race at Daytona or Talladega each season for the past nine years. While Keselowski now is a driver/owner at RFK Racing, he built a legacy at Team Penske. There, he would listen to Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski break down races at Talladega and Daytona. It was in a conference room at the team’s Mooresville, North Carolina, shop, or in a team hauler at the track. For years, Ryan Blaney had one of the most fascinating seats in NASCAR. ![]()
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