Ryan Blaney has had a string of unhealthy luck in current weeks. Dangerous motors, too.
On Sunday at Homestead, Blaney’s race was ended when his motor blew up with him operating in third place. Smoke billowing out of each side of the automobile, he was compelled to move to pit street the place he was sidelined for the remainder of the race.
He had led 124 laps within the race. And few drivers had a greater automobile.
“Look, Blaney’s in that very same situation. Quickest automobile the final couple weeks, been in place to simply dominate races,” Kevin Harvick mentioned on the Kevin Harvick’s Blissful Hour podcast. “He was dominating this race and had some hassle on pit street, obtained run into, had some issues get banged up after which the engine blew up. It grenaded. And that’s the second.
“So when you may have these two engine failures in a number of weeks, we talked in regards to the Toyotas final 12 months and what was the difficulty with the engines. And finally they obtained it fastened finally, however they blew up numerous motors.”
Till Ryan Blaney will get a number of races below his belt with out motor points it’ll linger as a priority. Is he prone to dropping one other race due to an gear failure?
“Having these engines shut collectively like that signifies that they’re not in all probability on the identical rotation of the identical engine batch,” Harvick defined. “Undoubtedly in all probability a special engine. Properly the engine at Phoenix is gone as a result of it blew up too.”
In different phrases, the issue may be somewhat extra widespread than anticipated. Presumably. It’s onerous to inform precisely what’s happening when there’s a mechanical failure.
Groups shall be working across the clock attempting to determine the difficulty and proper it. Ryan Blaney’s too good a driver to have probabilities to win ruined like that.
“So simply must preserve our eye on it,” Harvick mentioned. “I don’t know if it is a pattern, a coincidence or what that’s, however Ryan Blaney has had two alternatives with, particularly at Homestead, a automobile that was completely dominant to go and win the race and it’s gone. However that’s type of been the story, exterior of Josh Berry, of the Fords this 12 months.
“They’ve had vehicles which might be ok to be in competition, to reap the benefits of being in place to win, and haven’t.”
