Blaney had no warning before his second engine fai...

Ryan Blaney was a dominant power all through the NASCAR Cup race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, main most race laps — 124 of a doable 267 — and successful the opening stage.

The Team Penske driver was cruising in third place through the closing stage of the race, simply behind Kyle Larson and Bubba Wallace as they battled for the race lead. However all of the sudden, an enormous plume of white smoke billowed out the again of his No. 12 Ford Mustang, signalling a catastrophic engine failure.

Blaney’s race was over simply 60 laps shy of the end, inserting thirty sixth of the unique 37 starters.

“I didn’t have any warning,” stated Blaney afterwards. “It simply laid over after I bought again to wide-open down the entrance, and that was all she wrote. It simply stinks. We had a extremely quick Ford Mustang. We led lots of laps. We misplaced a little bit little bit of monitor place there with some stuff on pit highway, however bought again to 3rd and it was a fantastic race between me and Bubba and Larson. I’m certain Denny [Hamlin] was gonna get again into it. 

“It was gonna be a heck of a battle the final 60 laps or so, but it surely simply didn’t actually work out for us. We’ll proceed to maintain preventing. I admire the 12 guys for simply giving me a sizzling rod. It was an extremely, extremely quick race automobile right this moment. We’ll maintain our heads up. It’s simply a type of issues the place it’s probably not going our manner proper now, however the excellent news is we’re bringing quick vehicles, and that’s all you possibly can ask for. We’ll carry on transferring.”

Heavy smoke seen after Ryan Blaney, Crew Penske Ford engine blow

Picture by: Chris Graythen – Getty Photos

Unusually, this is not Blaney’s first engine blowup this 12 months — a failure that has turn into more and more uncommon in fashionable NASCAR. Two weeks in the past at Phoenix, an identical engine situation ended his day. A crash at Las Vegas final weekend implies that Blaney now has a stretch of three consecutive DNFs after simply six races.

Photographs from Homestead-Miami – Race