Blaney’s victory in last season’s 600-mile trip became as soon as what certified him for the 2023 playoffs, where he went on to steal two more races and captured his first series title.
While he has had a considerable 2024 season, he entered this weekend’s trip at Charlotte restful purchasing for his first steal of the year.
Sadly, it became as soon as now to no longer be.
While a spherical of inexperienced flag pit stops became as soon as ongoing in Stage 2, Blaney hit the outdoors wall in Flip 3 – presumably from a tire going down – and did serious structural damage to the very finest-front of his No. 12 Penske Ford.
He became as soon as in a site to limp spherical to pit avenue, however his team became as soon as unable to extricate the tire from the auto and ran out of time to repair the auto. NASCAR in the end needed to throw a caution so Blaney’s automobile would per chance perhaps moreover presumably be towed relieve to the storage.
“We’ll want to seem at if I hit one thing or, I don’t know,” Blaney acknowledged of the incident. “I accurate went into Flip 3 getting up to bustle and blew a tire and hit the fence. It’s an miserable discontinue to our night. That sucks.
“We’re no longer even midway and accurate searching to work to your stuff all night. I concept we accumulate been getting it a itsy-bitsy higher here and there however obtained’t salvage a shot.”
Blaney had accurate accomplished his inexperienced flag terminate earlier than the incident on the song however he became as soon as perilous if that had the rest to make with the discontinue consequence.
“I don’t know if I hit one thing or what, however it’s roughly uncommon. We’ll want to ride relieve and take a look at out it,” he acknowledged. “It stinks.
“That’s two miserable weekends in a row. I concept we on the least had a shot to enhance. I’d bustle terminate to the pinnacle 10 and presumably high five, however we’ll salvage via it.
“We’ve accurate got to with any luck build together a factual trip subsequent week.”
Blaney now has two consecutive DNFs after getting alive to on a 3-automobile atomize early in the Might perhaps perhaps perhaps 12 trip at Darlington, S.C. He became as soon as credited with a 39th-boom carry out on Sunday night.
