NASCAR.com's Alex Weaver catches up with Ryan Blaney after winning the first NASCAR Cup Series race at Iowa Speedway.
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00:00Well, the reigning champ is back in victory lane. Ryan Blaney is your winner here at Iowa.
00:04First and foremost, congratulations. But let's talk about the Iowa crew. We didn't know that
00:08the Blaney's all represented in Iowa. You had quite the show out 70 family members.
00:12What's it mean to win here? Yeah, I had a lot of them. Luckily, they were able to come
00:15to victory lane and, um, celebrate with me. I'm happy we got him across the racetrack.
00:20But no, my my my mom's from, you know, not too far from Des Moines and, um, you know,
00:25kind of grew up coming here a lot. Uh, and just it's neat to still have family members
00:29up here, and they were here for a lot of them were here for my first truck win in 12
00:34Xfinity win in 15, and they came back. So, um, and a lot of them. The only three race
00:38they ever been to is what I want. So it's good luck. But no, I just also have a family
00:41like that, and their support is definitely something that's, you know, I'm really fortunate
00:46to have, and I wish Gianna was here to celebrate with my family. But no, just it's cool to
00:52all have them out. You mentioned those three series. You're the only driver to ever win
00:56in the truck series, the Xfinity series, and now the inaugural race of the Cup series.
00:59How'd you do it today? How'd you guys find victory lane? Yeah, I mean, I think, um, honestly,
01:04Friday we weren't very good. I wasn't too confident after Friday, and, um, you know,
01:08Jonathan and I and everybody just try to figure it out, you know, and went to work and threw
01:12some things out of that we thought would help and and, yeah, qualifying. I'm like, All right,
01:16I think we have something. Um, and then the five look pretty good for sure. I thought
01:21we got a little bit closer to him as the night came. Um, but yeah, I mean, just just
01:26Jonathan did a great job. I mean, figuring out what we needed and how to progress and
01:30then adjusting on the car through the night. It was a big, big change from, you know, when
01:34the sun was up to sundown, it really took a swing. We got ahead of it, and that's that's
01:38really what it wasn't to cut two tires at the end was a good call of trying to get out
01:42front. I didn't know how it was gonna last on two. I started to struggle like 10 to go,
01:46but luckily we had enough of a gap to bring it home. But, uh, no, just proud of all the
01:5012 guys. I mean, they could hug their head after two weeks ago and I just been bummed
01:53out. But they, you know, just went to work and knew we could run up front and just cool
01:58to do it at a place like this. Some redemption from Gateway. Congratulations. Welcome to
02:02the playoffs. Thank you.