Ryan Blaney made no bones about it. He said he would remember Kyle Larson dumping him during the NASCAR Cup Series race at World Wide Technology Raceway this Sunday.
On Lap 135 just before the end of Stage 2, Larson dove down into turns 3 and 4 and ran right into the back of Blaney sending him spinning. Blaney was able to recover for a fourth place finish while Larson finished in 12th.
Larson makes contact with Blaney in the middle of the corner! 😱 pic.twitter.com/b2XsQpMC8Z
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) September 7, 2025
Following the conclusion of the race the two had a conversation about the spin on pit road.
You knew there was going to be a conversation between Ryan Blaney & Kyle Larson after this one. pic.twitter.com/yt3CUyEcQ8
— Xfinity Racing (@XfinityRacing) September 7, 2025
Blaney shared details on that conversation to USA saying, “I just wanted to know what I did to deserve it. He just said he made a mistake, you know. That’s fine. Make mistakes, but at the end of the day I still got turned. He came from all the way on the bottom of the racetrack and hit me in the left rear. I know he most likely didn’t mean to do it, but it happened anyway. So that’s just one I got to remember. But I was happy we bounced back after getting turned around. Did a good job of kinda timing out where we needed to be and having a good enough car to get back to fourth.”
Fourth place is a mega recovery for @Blaney following a spin midway through the race.
Ryan spoke about the incident with @KyleLarsonRacin on the grid at @WWTRaceway. pic.twitter.com/CCM2iGVarQ
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) September 7, 2025
He reiterated those thoughts while speaking to members of the press, “I just asked him what I did to deserve getting turned. He said he made a mistake. And, you know, I don’t think he did it on purpose. But still at the end of the day I got spun around. So just talking it out. At least we were able to recover, for sure. If we wouldn’t have recovered as well as we did it probably would have been a different conversation.”
“I was just trying to get an understanding because from my seat he came from all the way on the bottom of the racetrack, all the way up, and hit me in the left rear. So I was just trying to get a clearer understanding about that. So, yeah, move on,” he stated. Even though it wasn’t done [with] like a malicious intent at all, still remember it. I still got the s**t end of it, and got turned around, and had to come from the back. So you remember it. Just stuff like that. It’s not anything grudgy or something like that. It’s just those racing situations that you kind of think about next time you run with that person. You probably run them a little bit tighter and don’t give them as much space. But there’s no ill will or anything. It’s just race people how I get raced.”
As for Larson he admitted, “I misjudged it. The lap before I went in and I was able to get to his door and get him tight. And then the next I was trying to do the same thing and wasn’t going to get there, so I was going to try and tuck back in line and just clipped him. So, yeah, I’m sure he should be upset. I just misjudged it.”
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