{"id":34677,"date":"2025-07-03T07:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T07:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/34677\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T07:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T07:09:19","slug":"ryan-blaney-breaks-down-nascar-racing-at-atlanta-more-fun-than-talladega-and-daytona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/34677\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Blaney breaks down NASCAR racing at Atlanta: ‘More fun’ than Talladega and Daytona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Blaney<\/a><\/strong> finished dead-last EchoPark Speedway (formerly known as Atlanta Motor Speedway) this past weekend due to a wild crash on Lap 58. He wasn\u2019t happy, slamming the outside wall due to an accident that was set off by the No. 20 of Christopher Bell<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u00a0couldn\u2019t see much. They kind of started spinning and coming down. I tried to get to the apron and by the time I got there, kind of got blocked. \u2026 The story of our year. Just getting caught up in other people\u2019s garbage,\u201d Blaney said<\/a> regarding the wreck, via the TNT broadcast. \u201cJust when we get it going pretty good and find some momentum, we don\u2019t seem to have things go our way.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was another DNF for Blaney. He fell victim to the same fate at Phoenix, Las Vegas, Homestead, Talladega and Charlotte, as well. However, the result didn\u2019t dampen his enthusiasm for Atlanta. <\/p>\n

During this week\u2019s episode of Door Bumper Clear<\/a>, Blaney joined<\/a> as a special guest. He revealed how much he\u2019s been having at the track over the last couple of times the Cup Series has headed to EchoPark Speedway, and why it\u2019s moving up his list of favorites. <\/p>\n

\u201cThroughout the race and especially towards the end, the leader couldn\u2019t hold position. That place is just getting that way. The runs have always been big there, but I feel like it\u2019s even more so now, because you handle worse in the corner, so it spreads a little bit more and that makes the runs that much bigger. So, the leader gets away,\u201d Blaney stated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s getting to where it\u2019s a handful. I mean, you saw multiple guys spin out on their own the other night. [Christopher] Bell spun out in that wreck, just trying to get clean air and he got offset and he just spun out. There was a lot of other guys that just lost it. Everyone had their handful. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s becoming a pretty fun race. I\u2019d say I have more fun at Atlanta, speedway racing, than Talladega and Daytona.\u201d <\/p>\n

That\u2019s a pretty bold statement from Blaney, but he\u2019s simply echoing some other driver\u2019s sentiment with his comments, as well. Talladega and Daytona are the gold standard for speedway racing, but Atlanta has changed the game over the past couple of seasons. <\/p>\n

It\u2019ll be an interesting change of pace this weekend for Ryan Blaney, as he\u2019ll try to tame the Chicago Street Course once again. When we return to Daytona and Talladega later in 2025, we\u2019ll see if the racing can mimic what we saw this past weekend. Fans certainly will be hoping that\u2019s the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Blaney finished dead-last EchoPark Speedway (formerly known as Atlanta Motor Speedway) this past weekend due to a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-34677","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\/114788051490897343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34677","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=34677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}