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Three-time Talladega winner and recent Daytona victor Ryan Blaney explains how he learned to hone his craft on superspeedways to become so deft in the draft.
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Peter Stratta
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Twitter: @PeterStratta
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ation during the week and even on the track that you think separate job. Yeah, I think it starts with fast cars number one. I think Ford’s done a good job of understanding what it takes to kind of go fast here and Rash’s engines always does a good job of bringing some good horsepower to these places and that’s where it starts and then it, you know, kind of continues over to communication, teamwork, you know, within our building and and kind of how the drivers talk to each other, how the crew chiefs communicate, things like that. So, uh, all little pieces that come together, I just feel like we do a great job. I can’t speak for anyone else. Um, but I just know in our building, I think our prep work is is topnotch and, um, both fast cars help that out, too. So, that’s always nice. Austin talked about how he has to know how you drive the track and how Joey drives the track. How often do y’all talk about like the style which you drive these drafting tracks to better work together on track? Yeah, we talk about a, you know, a little bit. Um, I feel like it’s just a lot of racing around each other, right? you kind of understand what tendencies that everybody has. Um, but you know your teammates a little bit more because you do sit down in meetings and just kind of go through it like, hey, you know, what was your thinking behind this decision? You know, I want to know why you did it. Not for a bad reason, but like, hey, you know, what’s your thought process behind you’re behind this? And I think we just kind of communicate that out and make everybody better. Uh, so yeah, you definitely, you know, I know how Joey and Austin run these places really good. getting to know Josh more and more at these places just new to the program. But um yeah, you learn that stuff pretty quick. And I feel like if all that information is shared um between your your teammates and stuff, it just helps you be on the same page uh a little bit easier and that kind of makes the teamwork side flow a little bit uh more natural. Chase Elliot said you’re so good here because you don’t make stupid mistakes. How long did it take you to get to the point with drafting tracks that that wasn’t the case? I try not to make the stupid mistakes. I probably still make some for sure. Everybody does at some point. Um, yeah, I think it just takes time to kind of figure it out. And I talked earlier this week about, you know, I just try to be as patient as I can at these places and understand that I always try to keep my mind like, all right, I think I’m going to have another shot at this, right? And, hey, maybe you don’t get it, but that’s just the way I’ve always done it. Try not to get too antsy and um, just try to be a little bit more patient and usually most of the time something will develop to where you do have another shot. um at it. At least you hope so. But um yeah, I think it takes a long time. I got to learn from a couple really good guys, too. You know, Brad and Joey coming up around those guys, being their teammates um at these places. I think they’re two of the best that have ever done these deals. And I was able to watch a lot of guys, too early in my career, like Danny and Dell Jr. um who were fantastic, you know, at these types of racetracks. And that’s what I kind of learned from them and then was able to apply your own little taste on it, I guess.
