“Off Weekend” Still Results in Top-Ten, 8th-Place Finish for Blaney
Super Late Model Hot Shot Ryan Blaney has an Uncharacteristically Tough Run in CRA Event at LOR
Ryan Blaney is a driver who has found a lot of success on the Super Late Model short tracks in his few years on the circuits, so it was definitely a surprise to many not to see him battling it out with the leaders in Sunday’s SealWrap Repair Tape 100 at Lucas Oil Raceway – a track where he found success in the ARCA Racing Series earlier this year finishing second.
Blaney reported that his DB Racing team just “missed it” in qualifying for Sunday’s event and weren’t able to make up the track position they needed to get to the front.
“We weren’t really that competitive all weekend,” said Blaney. “We had a decent car but we weren’t able to run with the guys that were running right up there at the front. We didn’t really get the qualifying run we needed to start up front. Maybe if we would have, we could have made some ground up but we messed up qualifying pretty bad and we started 15th, so we were already pretty far behind at the start of the race.
“I think if we could have started maybe in the top-eight we could have stayed there and bided our time until we could make something of it, but that didn’t happen.
Sept 19, 2011
In the race we just had no drive off the corner really whatsoever so that was the main thing that was hurting us, we were just way too loose off to really compete with those guys.”
But as it is in racing, Blaney knows he will continue to experience the ups and downs of the sport and now will just look onto his next event, the Winchester 400 on October 16th, the track where Blaney sat on the pole in his ARCA Racing Series debut and has previously found success with the CRA Super Series.
“Now we’ll just go to Winchester and make sure we’ve got our stuff right,” said Blaney. “Hopefully we’ll get a little better qualifying run than we did this weekend and we can be up there contending for the win with them.”
After a top-10 at Lucas Oil Raceway Ryan Blaney will now look forward to the Winchester 400. (Speed51.com Photo)
