Ryan Blaney: ‘Means a lot to me’ to win at Iowa

Ryan Blaney walks through the emotions of winning the first Cup Series race at Iowa Speedway, his home track.

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00:00Ryan 80 friends and family are here. Does this one mean a little bit more? Yeah

00:08What a cool way to win here

00:10this place is like, you know means a lot to me means a lot to my mom and

00:14Yeah, we had a lot of people here tonight cheering us on so they willed us to that one. So overall really appreciate

00:20The whole 12 boys. I mean our car was really fast on nights and we got a little bit better through the night

00:25And two tires was a good call there. I didn't know how well he's gonna hold on

00:28Kind of started to struggle a little bit at the end, but had enough to hang on

00:32So super proud of the effort appreciate advanced auto parts Ford Ford performance

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00:40Wabash everything they do makes up a little bit from a couple weeks ago

00:43Yeah, so we were watching your friends and family on those final few laps and them cheering you on

00:48How's this gonna work Ryan are all 80 coming to victory lane? I hope so

00:54We'll see but I'm looking forward to seeing them it's always good to have family and I I've been super lucky to have family that

01:00support me, you know through my career and

01:02It's great that they're you know, still support me just as much they did day one

01:05So also want to appreciate the sold-out crowd you guys were

01:10Cool weekend, man

01:13We come back up any more years so special it deserved to burn out

01:16That's only the second time I've seen you do a burnout, right?

01:18Yeah

01:20Home track I got you

01:22Means a lot. I've won. I mean, it's cool. It's winning truck here. It's any car here now cup car

01:27That was coolest. Gosh, I'm worn out. I

01:30Was a long race and driving hard. And yeah, I figured I deserve to burn out. So

01:35Hopefully Dale admin isn't too bad at me

01:37How about that? I will race fans the driver with a hometown connection right here in Iowa Ryan and Brainy gets to victory lane