{"id":49623,"date":"2025-10-12T08:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T12:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/penskes-blaney-lays-down-the-law-at-nh-key-victory-in-nascar-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T08:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T12:44:16","slug":"penskes-blaney-lays-down-the-law-at-nh-key-victory-in-nascar-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nascar\/penskes-blaney-lays-down-the-law-at-nh-key-victory-in-nascar-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Penske&#8217;s Blaney Lays Down the Law at NH: Key Victory in NASCAR Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"In an emotional race at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, where the Fords proved to be the fastest, 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 his position against the strong pressure from Josh Berry, who finished in second place.Blaney secured the victory with a 0.937-second lead, earning his third win of the season and the sixteenth of his career.\u201cThey were probably the hardest 20 laps I\u2019ve run,\u201d Blaney commented.Blaney, seeking to reach the championship final for the third consecutive year, became the first driver to secure a place in the third round of the playoffs.<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0921%2Fr1549125_1024x576_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>NASCAR Cup Series driver Ryan Blaney (12) jumps off his car after saluting fans after winning the Mobil 1 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Josh Berry, despite a spin on lap 82, managed to recover and finish in second place.<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;It was an incredible day,&#8221; Berry said.<\/p><cite>Josh Berry<\/cite><\/blockquote>The Fords demonstrated their dominance from Saturday&#8217;s qualifying, with Joey Logano securing the pole position, followed by Blaney and Berry.William Byron, in a Chevrolet, finished in third place.<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Penske&#8217;s drivers were very fast. I felt like they were on another level,&#8221; Byron said.<\/p><cite>William Byron<\/cite><\/blockquote>Logano, who led the most laps (147), was satisfied with the result.<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Blaney was incredibly fast in practice, and he showed it again in the race,&#8221; Logano commented.<\/p><cite>Joey Logano<\/cite><\/blockquote>Chase Elliott, after qualifying in 27th position, managed to come back and finish in fifth place.Christopher Bell finished sixth, being the best Toyota.Kyle Larson and Ross Chastain also stood out, taking seventh and ninth place respectively.The race was marred by an incident between Joe Gibbs Racing teammates on lap 110, when Denny Hamlin spun Ty Gibbs.Hamlin questioned the situation over the radio, suggesting preferential treatment for Gibbs.Gibbs had to withdraw from the race due to the damage suffered.\u201cIt&#8217;s a shame, but I&#8217;m excited to race next week,\u201d Gibbs said.Hamlin, after the race, had a conversation with Joe Gibbs and Chris Gabehart.<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very unfortunate that they spun him there, and obviously the contact came from us,&#8221; Hamlin said.<\/p><cite>Denny Hamlin<\/cite><\/blockquote>Joe Gibbs Racing, after dominating the first round, struggled in the first stage at New Hampshire.The next NASCAR Cup Series race will be held at Kansas Speedway.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an emotional race at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, where the Fords proved to be the fastest, 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 his position [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[182,9007,104,3325],"class_list":{"0":"post-49623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nascar","7":"tag-nascar","8":"tag-new-hampshire","9":"tag-playoffs","10":"tag-ryan-blaney"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49623","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=49623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}