Ryan Blaney: 'Obviously disappointed' after coming up short at Homestead

Ryan Blaney describes his emotions after coming up just short on the final lap at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

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00:00And Ryan Blaney comes up one spot short from locking himself into the championship four.

00:03I saw you get out of the car shaking your head.

00:06It seems like disbelief.

00:07What are you feeling in this moment?

00:08It's obvious disappointment.

00:09I mean, you had a great shot to win.

00:12I didn't have a very good last lap.

00:14Um, man, I thought I got into three hard and the 45 just blitzed up in there and it stuck

00:20for him, which was pretty impressive.

00:22But, uh, yeah, I hate to give one away there like that.

00:25You know, um, I don't know if we gave it away.

00:27I mean, we got the lead back after losing it on the restart and, um, yeah, just just

00:33last that didn't really play out for us.

00:35So, yeah, definitely stinks.

00:36I appreciate everybody on the 12th team for bringing a really fast race car had a great

00:40shot to go to Phoenix and still got one more chance.

00:43So we still got to look forward to that, but appreciate Menards and Ford for performance.

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00:54just has shame.

00:55I'll be picking through it all night.

00:58What I should have done different, probably, and that's just the way it goes.

01:01But we're all really proud of the effort, and hopefully we can bring it to him next

01:06week.

01:07I know there's disappointment right now, but you mentioned next week multiple times.

01:09You guys won last year to get into the championship four at Martinsville.

01:13So is it optimistic at this point or you're gonna have to sort through these feelings

01:17first?

01:18Uh, yeah.

01:19I mean, I'll it'll suck for the night and then and then, uh, look forward to Martinsville,

01:25you know, tomorrow morning.

01:26So we try to forget things quick.

01:28I've tried to do that more and more as I've gotten older and just kind of move on to the

01:31next thing.

01:32Good, bad or indifferent and focus on the next task.

01:34So this team will do it.

01:35But, yeah, I just I just can't say how proud I am of them coming in and understanding what

01:41we need to do.

01:42It's just a shame it didn't work out.

01:43But, yeah, like you said, we had good fortune in Martinsville last year, and hopefully we

01:48can bring the same kind of speed and be in contention to win.