{"id":48039,"date":"2025-10-10T10:43:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/penskes-blaney-dominates-new-hampshire-and-leads-the-nascar-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:43:52","slug":"penskes-blaney-dominates-new-hampshire-and-leads-the-nascar-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nascar\/penskes-blaney-dominates-new-hampshire-and-leads-the-nascar-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Penske’s Blaney dominates New Hampshire and leads the NASCAR Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"In a race dominated by Fords at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Ryan Blaney took the victory in the first race of the second round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.\n\nBlaney, driving his number 12 Mustang, led 116 laps, including the last 39, and had to defend himself from the fierce attack of Josh Berry, who finished in second place.\n\nBlaney secured his third win of the season and the sixteenth of his career, with a lead of 0.937 seconds.\n\n

\u201cThose were probably the last 20 toughest laps I’ve driven,\u201d Blaney commented. \u201cI was trying to maintain my pace and stretch Josh a bit, but then he started closing in. I had to give it my all to keep him at bay, trying different lines. It was a good, clean race. I thank Josh for not using the bumper when he could. It was an incredible day and weekend. The car was very fast. We’ve been strong during the playoffs. It’s great to get a win in the first race of the round.\u201d<\/p>Ryan Blaney<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nBlaney, who is seeking to reach the championship final for the third consecutive year, became the first driver to advance to one of the eight available positions in the third round of the playoffs.\n\n

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El piloto de la NASCAR Cup Series, Ryan Blaney (12), salta de su coche despu\u00e9s de saludar a los aficionados tras ganar el Mobil 1 301 en el New Hampshire Motor Speedway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nJosh Berry, with the Ford number 21 of Wood Brothers Racing, recovered from a spin on lap 82 and elimination in the first round.\n\n

“It was an incredible day,” said Berry, who led 10 laps. “Congratulations to Ryan at the end. All of our cars were very strong, and Ryan did a great job. Honestly, I was surprised to be able to hold him off at the end. It’s a shame to finish second, but after the last few weeks, it feels good. This is definitely what we are capable of, and I hope we can keep it up.”<\/p>Josh Berry<\/cite>\n\nThe Fords showed their speed from Saturday’s qualifying, where Penske star Joey Logano took pole position, completing a dominance with Blaney and Berry.\n\nWilliam Byron, was the highest-ranked Chevrolet driver, finishing third.\n\n

\u201cIt was a good day overall,\u201d said Byron.<\/p>William Byron<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nLogano finished fourth after leading 147 laps in the No. 22 Ford. Chase Elliott, after qualifying 27th, achieved fifth place.\n\nChristopher Bell finished sixth, being the best Toyota, followed by Kyle Larson in seventh place.\n\nThe race was also marked by an incident between teammates from Joe Gibbs Racing on lap 110, when Denny Hamlin spun Ty Gibbs off the track.\n\n

\u201cDoes Ty know we’re racing for a championship?\u201d, Hamlin said on the radio to his team shortly before the contact. \u201cWhat the (expletive) is he doing?\u201d<\/p>Denny Hamlin<\/cite>\n\nGibbs briefly returned to the track before retiring due to damage to his Camry and finished 34th.\n\nHamlin, after finishing 12th, had a conversation with Joe Gibbs and Chris Gabehart.\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very unfortunate that he got taken out, and obviously the contact came from us,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cI have no comment other than that. We\u2019ll sort it out, but we\u2019ll see how it goes. But honestly, it\u2019s unfortunate that the contact happened.\u201d<\/p>Denny Hamlin<\/cite>\n\nThe second race of the second round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs is on Sunday at Kansas Speedway.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a race dominated by Fords at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Ryan Blaney took the victory in the first race of the second round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. Blaney, driving his number 12 Mustang, led 116 laps, including the last 39, and had to defend himself from the fierce attack of Josh Berry, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[182,9007,104,3325],"class_list":{"0":"post-48039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-new-hampshire","10":"tag-playoffs","11":"tag-ryan-blaney"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}