Video: Ryan Blaney Caught in Another Messy Daytona Crash, Enters Daytona 500 Weekend Pissed

With ten laps to go in the second BlueGreen Vacations Duel at Daytona International Speedway on Thursday night, Ryan Blaney once again gets violently wrecked on a Superspeedway.

The defending NASCAR Cup Series champion is sick of it.

“I have no idea,” Blaney replied once cleared from the infield care center. “I saw the replay and it looks like a terrible push once again gets me right reared into the wall. I don’t know who it was or who it stemmed from.”

Blaney then watched the reply back and saw the No. 6 of Brad Keselowski get into the back of the No. 8 of Daniel Hemric who ended up hooking him.

“Sh*tty pushes by people three times in a row at Daytona and I have a wrecked race car,” Blaney lamented. “I’m getting pretty sick of getting right-reared by someone’s awful push. It’s unfortunate that we have to build a whole new [Daytona] 500 car.”

You don’t have to go back far to find a similar crash for Blaney. Last summer, when the Cup series returned to Daytona to end their regular season, Blaney was leading the race coming to the end of the second stage on lap 95 when the No. 54 of Ty Gibbs was pushed from behind and turned into Blaney, sending him into the wall.

There's a clear change in Blaney’s disposition between these two wrecks. The attrition of these hits is leaving the driver pissed. While, of course, he and his team can applaud the safety changes that continue to let him walk away from these seemingly catastrophic wrecks they build.

In Netflix's new docu-series NASCAR: Full Speed, Blaney rewatched the crash with his then-girlfriend, now fiance Gianna Tuilo, and reflected on how he felt and processed it in the moment.

"Before I knew it, I was hitting the fence,” Blaney said in a clip filmed before last fall’s Talladega playoff race. “I saw the whiteness of the wall, the very last second, and then I’m hitting it... And then you take a while to catch your breath. It took me two or three minutes to get my bearings together.”

Last summer’s Daytona crash was the third Superspeedway wreck for the soon-to-be champion after a major crash at Nashville Superspeedway in June and on the final lap of last year’s Daytona 500.

In last year’s running of the event, Kyle Larson got turned after the leaders captured the white flag in the second overtime, Larson’s No.5 Chevy ended up colliding with Blaney’s No. 12 Toyota nose-to-nose.

The defending champion will have his work cut out for him on Sunday as he attempts to race through the field in a backup car. We're sure the No. 12 team will be tirelessly working over the next two nights to have it prepared and tuned in time for the 500.

Kyle Busch, Noah Gragson, and Hemric will also race in backup cars as a result of the same crash.

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