Defending NASCAR Cup Series champion Ryan Blaney has 'faith' in himself and his No. 12 Team Penske crew to earn back-to-back titles.
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00:00Yeah, I mean, I don't know why, you know, you haven't seen a repeat champion back to back, you know, since Jimmy, right? Yeah, when he won five in a row. So I don't know why.
00:12That was just one of those rare instances, right? Like, Jimmy went in five. I mean, and who is the person before Jimmy to win back to back? You know, I mean, that's got was a Jeff.
00:24Yeah, it's just, I don't know. It's just it's tough to do. Teams are always getting smarter. It takes everything kind of perfect to go your way. Team has to execute the best they can. And you have to have a little bit of fortune on your side to not be in any like unfortunate circumstances through the playoffs.
00:42So yeah, I don't know why. I mean, there's, I look back, there's been plenty of teams good enough to be able to win back to back. And it just hasn't happened. And I think that just shows you how hard it is to do like, it's a lot easier, I feel like to win back to back in other sports, because you're one we've won v one pretty much when these games and racing, there's so many other competitors.
01:03It's like trying to win the Masters back to back, like you're competing against so many other people, that it's just hard to do it perfectly two years in a row. But yeah, I mean, obviously, I'm confident with our group. I'm, you know, and that's not from a cocky or arrogant standpoint. It's like, I have faith in our group that we can do it. And we're, we're good enough to where we can do it again. And that's just I just have so much faith in our team, and our guys.
01:27So, yeah, I mean, I'd like to obviously, I said, I think we're in a good position, we just got to keep doing what we can and keep staying hungry. It's funny, I think we're all we're all even hungrier for a second one than we were the first. I said it in an interview somewhere of like, it's almost like you taste the forbidden fruit, and you want another bite of it, you know, and you want that feeling.
01:48Again, you want to share that moment with all your folks that work hard with you week in and week out and through the years. So, yeah, hopefully we can break that trend. We'll see.