Ryan Blaney Has Painfully Honest Four Word Talladega Reaction

Newsweek

28-04-2025

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NASCAR Cup Series Champion Ryan Blaney delivered a brutally honest assessment of his day in Talladega on Sunday as he responded to Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s X post.
Earnhardt, not able to watch the race, asked his followers to fill him in: "I'm on a plane and I cannot see the race. Care to reply with a description of the event so far?" he asked.
Blaney, who had his fourth DNF of the season yesterday, responded with only four words: "I didn't have fun."
A multi-car wreck saw Brad Keselowski's No. 6 RFK Racing Ford clash with Kyle Busch's No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet. Both cars pushed up the track, eventually collecting Alex Bowman's No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet and Ryan Blaney's No. 12 Team Penske Ford in the process.
Ryan Blaney, driver of the #12 Advance Auto Parts Ford, greets fans as he walks onstage during driver intros prior to the NASCAR Cup Series Jack Link's 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on April 27, 2025...
Ryan Blaney, driver of the #12 Advance Auto Parts Ford, greets fans as he walks onstage during driver intros prior to the NASCAR Cup Series Jack Link's 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on April 27, 2025 in Talladega, Alabama. More"It was just a stack of guys trying to come to pit road as fast as they could, and we were kind of the ham in the sandwich that got squeezed," Keselowski admitted after the race via NASCAR.com. "I waved down the backstretch to let everybody know I was gonna pit, and I came off of four, and everybody was so tight behind me that I didn't even have a chance to turn left. I hate that it ruined not just our day, but several other people's day. I don't think I could do anything different."
Blaney commented on what led up to the incident.
"It looked like a group of guys trying to get to pit road and maybe some guys not knowing that they were coming to pit road and not giving them any room," Blaney said. "I saw the 8 and 6 kind of get hooked together, and they were going up the track, so I kind of picked the bottom and tried to get out of there, and I think they clipped someone outside of them, and the 6 came back into me, and I got clipped in the right-rear.
"Oh gosh, man, another DNF. It just sucks. Just when we were kind of getting our momentum and didn't even get to race today. We'll just move on to Texas."
The post from the driver quickly became popular with it amassing 7,700 likes, almost 400 reposts, and a reach of 226,000.