Ryan Blaney describes what his No. 12 Team Penske Ford needed after coming up short to teammate Joey Logano for the 2024 championship at Phoenix.
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00:00But it looks like you worked awfully, awfully hard to try to get your teammate there at
00:03the end.
00:04Yeah, just worn out and just couldn't quite get there and tried really hard to do so.
00:11Just restart didn't really work out and just got too far away from me and took me a while
00:15to kind of pass a couple guys and just can never get by Joey and just ran out of time.
00:22But congrats to him.
00:23Congrats to the 22 team and Pennzoil and Ford.
00:27They put together a great playoffs and we're happy and if we're going to race somebody,
00:32I'm happy it was him for the championship and happy to be one, two for Roger, three
00:37in a row for Roger is super amazing and Ford.
00:41But on my side, I hate it for Menards, you know, Advanced Auto Parts, Body Armor, Dex
00:45Imaging, Wabash of Worth Group, everybody who really puts a lot of effort into our program
00:51and just super fast, didn't quite have enough there at the end and, yeah, at least the Penske
00:58car won it.
00:59But, yeah, heck of a battle.
01:00Hope the fans enjoyed it and, yeah, hopefully we come back even stronger next year.
01:04It was a great show.
01:06Once you got clear and started going to work, did you think you had him?
01:09Yeah, I didn't know.
01:12I had to work really hard to get by the 5 and the 24 and Joey was pretty far away and
01:19I was working really hard to try to get to Joey, so I was kind of nervous that if I ended
01:24up kind of getting close to him, a lot of my stuff would be burned off of it and it
01:28kind of was, but I didn't have a choice, I couldn't really wait, so, yeah, it just took
01:33too long.
01:34Just the restart didn't play out for us.
01:35I feel like if I came out, you know, behind Joey and didn't have kind of two cars in between
01:39us that I had a pass, I would have been able to have a better shot.
01:44But just the restart didn't work out and that's just the way it goes sometimes.
01:47I'm so proud of the 12 team for their effort and really, really happy with our year and
01:53like I said, really happy for Roger Penske and Joey Logano and Paul Wolfe and all those
01:56guys and try to restack and go at it again.
02:01We're proud of the show that you put on.
02:02The reigning champ passes the cup to his teammate today, Kim.