{"id":18808,"date":"2015-09-28T11:01:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=18808"},"modified":"2015-09-28T11:01:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T18:01:09","slug":"second-try-is-the-charm-for-blaney-at-kentucky-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/second-try-is-the-charm-for-blaney-at-kentucky-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Try is the Charm for Blaney at Kentucky Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ryan<\/a>
Ryan Blaney, driver of the #22 Discount Tire Ford, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Xfinity Series Visitmyrtlebeach.com 300 at Kentucky Speedway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ryan Blaney got a rare NASCAR \u2018do over\u2019 after letting Regan Smith get underneath him on his restart with eight laps to go, giving the lead away to Ty Dillon.\u00a0 However, when another spinning car sent the race into overtime on his second green flag try, Blaney didn\u2019t fail with a big push from behind from Smith surging him to Saturday night\u2019s big win at the VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300, NASCAR Xfinity Series event at the Kentucky Speedway, his second win of the season.<\/p>\n

“We were just even with the 3 [Dillon], and the 7 [Smith] gave us a good push [on the final restart],” said Blaney, who captured his fourth career Xfinity Series win. \u00a0“Luckily we were able to get a good shove and just get a little bit of position on the 3 to kind of use up the race track and get in front of him. \u00a0I knew once we were clear we had a really good shot at it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a great Mustang tonight. \u00a0We were great all night. \u00a0It was just a matter getting up the front. \u00a0Clean air was so important.”<\/p>\n

\"NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n

As for the next-to-last restart, which saw Blaney\u2019s winning chances temporarily fall, his energy worked against him.<\/p>\n

“Kentucky is such a great race track because you can see three or four wide racing in the first corner.\u00a0 As the leader you have to protect and I didn\u2019t know where the 7 [Smith] was going, he kind of faked me out going to the top and that was able to open up the middle and it just lost all of our momentum.”<\/p>\n

Dillon was bothered with his runner-up performance, mainly frustrated with the last caution that brought the field back together for two laps.<\/p>\n

“First of all, I am disappointed for second, and that’s a good thing,” said Dillon.\u00a0 “I’m proud to be sitting here saying that.\u00a0 Earlier this year, we didn’t have that opportunity to say that very often.\u00a0 Man, it hurts when you’ve got a big lead with four to go – I don’t even know what the caution was for – but, that’s a stinger.”<\/p>\n

\"NASCAR<\/a><\/p>\n

After Blaney and runner-up Ty Dillon, it was Regan Smith, Chase Elliott, and Brandon Jones rounding out the top five.<\/p>\n

The average speed for the VisitMyrtleBeach.com 300 was 110.238 mph. There were a record number of caution flags at 10 for 55 laps.\u00a0 There were 17 lead changes among seven drivers.<\/p>\n

NASCAR Xfinity series point leader, Chris Buescher, who finished seventh, now leads Ty Dillon by 19 points in the standings with six races remaining. \u00a0Chase Elliott, who finished fourth, is third, 25 points behind.<\/p>\n

The next NASCAR Xfinity race will be next weekend at the Dover International Speedway for the Hisense 200 on Saturday, October 3, starting at 3 p.m. on NBCSN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ryan Blaney came back in the last few laps to take the win at Kentucky Speedway.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3424,3470,22],"tags":[2952,3109,3111,3176,3107,3046,3106],"class_list":["post-18808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","category-news","category-event-coverage","tag-brandon-jones","tag-chase-elliott","tag-chris-buescher","tag-nascar-xfinity-series","tag-regan-smith","tag-ryan-blaney","tag-ty-dillon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/53239200303654.oPMV8X3Vz6TSayhNn7HQ_height640.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-4Tm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18812,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808\/revisions\/18812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}