{"id":259358,"date":"2025-09-27T18:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/259358\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T18:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:17:11","slug":"ryan-blaney-going-to-a-backup-car-at-kansas-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/259358\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Blaney going to a backup car at Kansas after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Kan. \u2014 Ryan Blaney, who won last weekend\u2019s race at New Hampshire to be the first driver to advance to the Round of 8, crashed early in Cup practice Saturday at Kansas Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>The team confirmed that Blaney\u2019s team will go to a backup car for Sunday\u2019s race (3 p.m. ET on USA Network).<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"NASCAR ejects Cup crew chief for inspection violation at Kansas \" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nascar\/news\/nascar-ejects-cup-crew-chief-for-inspection-violation-at-kansas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"AUTO: SEP 12 NASCAR Cup Series Bass Pro Shops Night Race\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758997031_772_\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael McDowell will be without his crew and face additional penalties after an inspection violation with his car at Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe blew a tire, so we\u2019ll have to look at it and see why that was,\u201d Blaney said. \u201cI hate that we crashed a race car and stuff like that, but we\u2019ll take a peek at what we need to do differently and hopefully come from the back (Sunday). I\u2019m looking forward to getting the race going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if low air pressure contributed to the issue, Blaney said: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say I really had any feel of something kind of off until right before it went, honestly. It kind of had that normal feeling to it until it blew. That\u2019s kind of the hard thing about when you blow tires like that. They don\u2019t feel way off and then they just kind of give out the next moment, so I didn\u2019t have any kind of caution beforehand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team Penske teammate Joey Logano had a tire go down during practice. He pulled the car off the track and had no wall contact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Kan. \u2014 Ryan Blaney, who won last weekend\u2019s race at New Hampshire to be the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":259359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-259358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115277636830253105","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}