Blaney is one of the nicest drivers you will ever meet. He even went out of his way to take a photo and share a conversation with me! Plus, we can't forget his love of NASCAR RU-vid! It stings a bit as a Larson fan, but i'd rather lose to someone as down-to-earth as Blaney any day!
I was happy whoever won the Championship But I wanted Blaney to Win it because he's not only one of my all time favorites, He was my pick to win the Championship
John Menard is going to be one very happy person after the owner of the Wisconsin based home improvement store sees Ryan Blaney win a Cup Series championship. Congratulations Ryan, you made your family happy and now Roger Penske is a four time Cup Series champion.
I may not like the playoffs, but I hate the idea of not acknowledging someone as a champion because a different driver would've won the championship under the Winston format
I have to agree. Regardless on how it happened Ryan should be acknowledged for the championship. The problem is they want the Winston era back but it's not going to be back anytime soon. So, at least congratulate Ryan but be disappointed that he couldn't do in the Winston era of the points system. Instead of saying it doesn't count and someone else is rightly the champion.
I wanted Blaney to win the championship. But it doesn’t feel like he did. I feel like nobody wins in this format. Sure Blaney got the cup, but do you think he feels as good as the guys who won under the Winston format? I’ll bet he’d feel a lot better if he won 9 races and had the statistically best season. The championship just doesn’t mean as much anymore.
@@dnasty312 Chase Elliott's 2023 Season wasn't as bad of a season as it was potrayed Considering He still had the 4th Best Average Finish. While the kind of Season Austin Dillon had is WAY more substantial of a Bad Season Even for a driver of his caliber.
This was, in my opinion, just Kyle Petty’s way of pushing Ryan Blaney to prove him wrong. The way he said it might rub some the wrong way, but I think from his tone that he wanted him to prove him wrong, and if that’s the case, it worked. 3 wins, a championship, and beating both 2020 championship leaders in Harvick and Blaney. Not a bad year.
Love it for ryan, I've known his dad Dave for years, and Ryan's just like his dad. Always doing something different. His dad's sprint cars always are different from the competition and Blaney always does something different
I'm sure there'll be a "Good Seasons" video on William Byron soon, a career high 6 wins and an impressive level of consistency would have led to him to the title with a year long points battle
No one wants to see those points battles, what's the point of crowning a champion with 4 races to go in the season, kind of pointless to run those races with a champion already decided, this playoff format is great for racing
@@stevenballard9769 besides, how does that explain the hail melon from last year? Yes that moment has been replayed, but the viewing figures for Phoenix last year, down on the previous race. As to what you said about it being boring if the championship is decided early, racing drivers are competitive beings, if anything, with the pressure off, they're more likely to race in a more exciting way than if the championship is on the line. Take Homestead 2003, the season finale that year. Matt Kenseth secured the title the previous race, but as a standalone race, it was exciting to watch. It looked like Bill Elliott was going to claim a second win in a row, having won the previous race in Rockingham, but faltered on the last lap, and Bobby Labonte was in the right place to take advantage and win the race. To use one of my favourite F1 examples, the 2005 Japanese Grand Prix the penultimate race of the season and again the race after the title had been decided (Fernando Alonso had secured his first title with a third place finish in Brazil, the race before Japan), and again the race was absolutely thrilling. The ones that were in title contention, that were driving a bit conservatively to get good points for the championship, could race freely with the pressure off. Don't believe me? Go and watch it
@@stevenballard9769the point is to have a legitimate champion. Nobody could argue the champion when it was season long. Now, even people like Jeff Gluck are saying you can’t judge careers based on championships because they don’t mean as much. It’s an either or situation. Imagine if in the superbowl one team has a thirty point lead at halftime. That game is boring. But if we then had a rule where with two minutes to go we go to a “next score wins” format. That would be more exciting, but it wouldn’t be as meaningful. NASCAR is going for excitement which is understandable, but the cost is that a lot of the fan base are racing purists and they don’t care much about this.
While Blaney’s championship run was the most impressive stretch by any driver this season, I do think William Byron deserves a good seasons video. We’ve been waiting really since 2020 for him to break out in a big way and he finally did it, career high in wins, top 5 and 10s, and laps led
Am I glad that Blaney won a championship? Yes. Did he he deserve to win a championship? Yes. Did he deserve to win the 2023 championship? No. William Byron was on FIRE this season. After Jeff Gordon's 1998 domination, it was so poetic to see the 24 leading points going into Phoenix. Again, I like Blaney too, and seeing him take home Martinsville, Talladega and the Coke 600 was great, but c'mon man, his season was NOT championship caliber.
Ryan Blaney 2023 championship season seems similar to Logano’s 2018 championship. I mean think about, one win regular season winning when it matters at martinsville and coming up clutch to win the championship.
Funny to think both “big time” winless drivers last season (Truex, Blaney) ended up being the regular season champ and series champ respectively one season later. Just goes to show its a year by year and week by week sport. Congrats to blaney!
Finally, someone in #12 will win the cup series after Ryan Newman didn't win the championship in the #12 car. To me, this is an underdog story of Ryan Blaney's 2023 championship.
@@evanabernathy9677 Austin Dillon's 2023 Season is WAY More substantial of a Bad Season than Chase Elliott's 2023 Season & Alex Bowman's 2023 Season Considering that he had a whopping 10 DNFs throughout the entire season which is horrific Even for a driver of his caliber
Blaney became my guy after Newman left full-time racing. I’m so happy he won, I waited 9 years for an opportunity at a championship run and Blaney got it done
After Rusty retired I haven’t had a driver. When Blaney went to the 21 I was so happy. I really wanted him to get the 2 car, but there is still a 2 in his number. Also he would have won the Daytona 500 in 2022 had his teammate not screwed him over
Glad Blaney won the Championship but I wouldn't consider a Championship season, 8 top 5's in 36 races isn't exactly the best compared to drivers who have nearly doubled the amount of top 5's that didn't win.
Been watching him since 2019... and me and my friend always knew he had the talent.... but something AWAYS happened that would leave him in tears.... but this year he finished the year with tears... and a championship...
I've been on a rollercoaster of emotions about the championship since the green flew yesterday. It took a bit to sort myself out as admittedly he hadn't been my personal pick, as I met the results with a lot of frustration. But thinking back on it all, it's clear how badly he fought for the right to be the champion and was not only willing but able to beat some of the best drivers out there in order to secure it. You've earned my respect, Blaney, you're a worthy opponent and congratulations on your championship.
This was and is a joke. This is why NASCAR will never bring the numbers up in the ratings. How about the best all season is the champ. Not one race decides the champ. Ryan’s season was mediocre at beat
We can blame Ford for that. And Penske. He only took it seriously once he had Double Crowns on his belt (Indy and Coke), it took a while to get to shape
Oh boy, we might get championship hangovers: ryan blaney 2024 next year, i hope not, i hope both logano and blaney can both be in the final 4 next year, but i have a feeling blaney will have a championship hangover. Lets see if this comment ages well next year
After the salty week that I had and the final race of season, I’m glad that the week and the season are over and I’m hoping that Blaney won’t anger me next year, and with 3 wins, 8 top 5s, 18 top 10s, an average finish of 14.1, 3 DNFs and a 1st place championship points finish, let’s hope that he can join Kyle Larson and Joey Logano in the Gen 7 Championship Hangover club in 2024.
I knew as soon as he won last week that he'd basically walk away with the championship. With Blaney the worse the car handles the faster he gets. And Phoenix is a track where everyone's cars drive like crap. Despite having worst handling car out of the top ten in the last sixty or so laps, right before Kyle Busch wonked it, Blaney was posting the fastest lap times again and again. That car was whipping sideways, it was understeering under braking, the back end kept getting pushed away from the wall when he'd come up against Chastain's turbulence -- and yet Blaney was cutting off about fifteen hundredths of a second per lap and went from -1.8 behind to -0.34 behind. He only backed off because his front tires were so done for that Chastain's turbulence was going to push him into the wall if he got close in the last eight laps. That is some ridiculous skill in driving.
Funny guys like kamakaze if you know you know are saying this is in deserved which is funny he compared Blaney to Ben Rhodes which is obsurd Blaney did the best out of the playoff 18 he deserved every second of this chamionship
Funny how the words “Unfulfilled potential” came from the son of the Richard Petty who couldn’t hold a candle to his father’s accomplishments. Kyle Petty has always been a clown. YRB LETS GOOOO
Let’s remember that just three weeks before he won the title, he was briefly disqualified after las Vegas and was put in a must win scenario before it got taken back.
I raced quartet midgets at NCQMA at the same time as Blaney but I was 8 years younger so obviously I never raced against him. Every kid at that track dreamed of being a pro nascar driver and few dared to dream of being a champion. Seeing Blaney actually do it makes me so happy for him
What a great move at Talladega to get inside of Harvick and win the Yellow Wood 500! My first race to attend in person! He will be my favorite driver. Glad to see he closed it out in Phoenix! Congrats Ryan Blaney! Unlike some others, I do not dislike any of the drivers! Personalities makes the drama better for the sport and lets the fans have a choice! Sorry that he had to do it at the cost of Harvick. Oh well! He made a great move and his car was better!
People need to chill out. He has all the talent, but it isn’t easy to win. There are plenty past NASCAR drivers with the talent that never got a chance to win a cup title # poor mark martin
