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Ryan Blaney after Gateway heartbreak: ‘It wasn’t meant to be’

MADISON, Ill. — The checkered flag was in sight. Reigning Cup Series champion Ryan Blaney was on the brink of punching his ticket to the playoffs in Sunday’s Enjoy Illinois 300 at World Wide Technology Raceway.

 

Coming to the white flag, Blaney’s No. 12 Ford began to slow off Turn 4. Blaney’s Team Penske teammate Austin Cindric shot to the inside of Blaney to take the lead. Cindric captured his second career Cup Series win, earning his first top-five finish on a non-superspeedway or road-course race.

 

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Blaney limped around the track and was credited with a 24th-place finish, the final car on the lead lap.

 

“It quit running. Just a lap short,” Blaney said. “I thought we were plenty good. They must not have gotten it as full as they thought. I thought we were plenty good to go to the end and it wasn’t meant to be.”

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