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Las Vegas Motor Speedway hasn’t been kind to Ryan Blaney this weekend.
After blowing a right-rear tire in Saturday’s practice session, Blaney was forced to start Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 from the rear of the field, but his run back to the front of the pack has ended early.
With 70 laps remaining in the event, Blaney was sitting in the middle of a four-wide situation with Christopher Bell, Noah Gragson, and Bubba Wallace, before coming up the racetrack and getting hooked into the outside wall.
Blaney sustained major damage to his No. 12 Pennzoil Ford Mustang Dark Horse, but collected several drivers in the stack up behind him, including Erik Jones, Austin Dillon, and Bubba Wallace.
Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. also got a piece of the incident, albeit before Blaney was turned into the outside wall, getting tagged exiting the second corner and spinning down the backstretch on his own.
The 2023 NASCAR Cup Series champion was pretty angry while he was spinning down the backstretch, considering the No. 12 had driven from a last-place starting spot, into seventh at the time of the incident.
Blaney will have nothing to show for it, though, as he’ll finish outside the top-30.
