Ryan Michael Blaney was born on December 31,1993 and is an American professional stock car racing driver.
57 Facts About Ryan Blaney
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Ryan Blaney competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No 12 Ford Mustang for Team Penske.
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Ryan Blaney is the son of former NASCAR driver Dave Blaney and the grandson of modified dirt track legend Lou Blaney.
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At age 14, Ryan Blaney debuted in late model racing at Orange County Speedway, while in 2009, at age 15, he began competing in the Pro All Stars Series -sanctioned South Super Late Model Series, finishing second in points and winning the series' Rookie of the Year award; he finished third in the PASS national points as well.
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Ryan Blaney competed in the Champion Racing Association -sanctioned Southern Six Pack series, winning the series championship for 2010.
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In July 2012, Ryan Blaney announced that he had signed a contract to drive for Team Penske a minimum of three races in the 2012 Nationwide Series season, starting at Iowa Speedway in August.
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Ryan Blaney ran selected races in the Camping World Truck Series for Brad Keselowski Racing, finishing sixth in his debut in the series at Bristol Motor Speedway.
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Ryan Blaney won his first career Truck Series race on September 15,2012, at Iowa Speedway; at the time, he was the youngest winner in Truck Series history at 18 years, eight months, and 15 days.
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Ryan Blaney returned to the Camping World Truck Series in 2013, driving the full schedule for Brad Keselowski Racing and competing for the series' Rookie of the Year award.
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Ryan Blaney competed in a second Nationwide Series race in 2013, at Kentucky Speedway on September 21, and led 96 of the race's 200 laps to win his first career race in the series, beating Austin Dillon and Matt Crafton.
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Ryan Blaney was the only race winner in the 2013 Nationwide season to not have any Sprint Cup experience.
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In January 2014, Ryan Blaney announced that in addition to a full Camping World Truck Series schedule with BKR, he would be running 15 Nationwide Series and two Sprint Cup Series races for Team Penske during the year.
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Ryan Blaney made his debut at Kansas Speedway, finishing 27th.
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Ryan Blaney drove the No 29 truck full-time for Brad Keselowski Racing.
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Ryan Blaney had many Top 10 but failed to win in the spring.
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Ryan Blaney won his second career Nationwide race in August 2014 at Bristol Motor Speedway, beating Kyle Busch in a green-white-checkered finish.
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The next week, Ryan Blaney won his first Truck race of 2014 spectacularly at Ron Fellows' own Canadian Tire Motorsports Park raceway, edging German Quiroga by 0.49 seconds in a photo-finish.
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In 2015, Ryan Blaney began his Xfinity Series schedule at Las Vegas in the Boyd Gaming 300.
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Ryan Blaney finished second to Dillon by a three-car-length winning difference.
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Ryan Blaney picked up his first Top 10 at Talladega in the GEICO 500, running as high as second and finishing 4th.
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Ryan Blaney nearly won at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the Xfinity race, finishing second to Kyle Busch after being passed on the final lap.
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Ryan Blaney won at Iowa and nearly won at Road America in his debut at the track.
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Ryan Blaney got his second top 10 of his career in Sprint Cup at Kansas for the Hollywood Casino 400 finishing seventh.
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In 2023, Ryan Blaney would be his Cup teammate, Joey Logano's spotter at Bristol for the Weather Guard Truck Race on Dirt.
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Ryan Blaney began competing full-time in the Cup Series in 2016 with the Wood Brothers despite the Wood Brothers being excluded from NASCAR's new Charter system implemented before the 2016 Cup series season.
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Ryan Blaney got his third Top 10 of his career in Sprint Cup, finishing 6th in the Kobalt 400 at Las Vegas.
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Ryan Blaney picked up more top tens at Phoenix, Talladega, Kansas, Dover, and Pocono for a so-far successful half of the season with his best finish being a 5th at Kansas.
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At Chicagoland, Ryan Blaney ran well all day and for the final restart, he gambled and stayed out, and got the race lead.
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Ryan Blaney then passed Harvick early in the race to lead the next 148 laps.
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At Kansas, Ryan Blaney won his first career Cup Series pole.
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On July 26, Ryan Blaney announced he would be moving to Team Penske's No 12 car for the 2018 season; Paul Menard was signed to take over the No 21 car.
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Ryan Blaney then scored consecutive top-ten finishes at Martinsville and Texas, but despite winning the pole for the Round of 8 finale at Phoenix, he faded outside of the top ten by the end of stage one.
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Ryan Blaney rebounded to secure eighth by the end of stage two, but could not improve his standing on the track, ultimately finishing the race in 17th and being eliminated from the playoffs.
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Ryan Blaney made the Playoffs with five top-fives and 12 top-10s in the regular season.
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Ryan Blaney scored his first win with Team Penske in the Bank of America Roval 400 at the Charlotte Roval after leaders Martin Truex Jr.
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Ryan Blaney was eliminated from the Round of 12 after the fall Kansas race and finished the season 10th in points.
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Ryan Blaney remained consistent within the top 10 in points in 2019.
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At the Charlotte Roval, Ryan Blaney finished eighth to advance to the Round of 12.
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Ryan Blaney lost the 2020 Daytona 500 to Denny Hamlin in the second-closest finish in Daytona 500 history.
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Ryan Blaney had transmission issues at the 2020 Quaker State 400, forcing him to drive through the turns one-handed because his car kept jumping out of fourth gear.
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Ryan Blaney made the playoffs with his win at Talladega, but was eliminated in the Round of 16 following the Bristol Night Race.
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Ryan Blaney went into the 2021 Cup playoffs as the second-seeded driver with three wins on the season behind Kyle Larson, who had five wins.
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Ryan Blaney made it to the Round of 8 before being eliminated after Martinsville.
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Ryan Blaney finished the season seventh in the points standings.
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Ryan Blaney started the 2022 season with a fourth-place finish at the 2022 Daytona 500.
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Ryan Blaney was eliminated following the Round of 8 after finishing third at Martinsville.
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At the beginning of the 2017 season, Ryan Blaney began a NASCAR-supported podcast featuring former Miss Sprint Cup and current Motor Racing Network personality Kim Coon and NASCAR.
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In June 2017, Ryan Blaney became a member of Fox NASCAR Cup driver-only broadcast team for the Xfinity Series race at Pocono Raceway, working as a pit reporter alongside Erik Jones and Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
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Ryan Blaney interviewed race-winner Brad Keselowski; the next day, the roles were reversed as he won his first Cup race with Keselowski, still in his firesuit, interviewing him.
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The driver-only broadcast format returned for the 2018 Xfinity race at Talladega Superspeedway as Ryan Blaney returned to his pit duties.
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Ryan Blaney had a cameo appearance as a delivery boy in the 2017 film Logan Lucky.
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Ryan Blaney guest-starred in the TV show Taken in season 2 episode 12 "Imperium", as Special Agent Nathan Wood; the episode aired on April 20,2018.
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Ryan Blaney had a cameo appearance as himself in the Netflix's television series The Crew.
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Ryan Blaney is the only son and middle child of Lisa and Dave Ryan Blaney.
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Ryan Blaney has two sisters: Emma and Erin; Emma is married to driver Cale Conley.
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Ryan Blaney is a close friend of fellow drivers and competitors Bubba Wallace, Erik Jones, and Chase Elliott, and an avid Star Wars fan.
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Season still in progress Ineligible for series points In 2012 Ryan Blaney switched from Nationwide to Truck Series points at Atlanta Motor Speedway in August.