Ryan Blaney has suffered another blown engine, this one coming at the NASCAR Homestead race.
Blaney was running third on lap 207 of the 267 scheduled in Sunday’s Straight Talk Wireless 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway when smoke poured out of Blaney’s No. 12 Team Penske Ford. He is scored 36th of 37 cars in the race.
Blaney led 124 laps in Sunday’s race when the engine blew.
“I didn’t have any warning,” Blaney said to FOX Sports pit reporter Jamie Little. “It just laid over when I got back to wide open on the front (stretch). It just stinks … We’ll keep our head up; the good news is we’re bringing fast race cars and that’s all you can ask for. We’ll keep on moving.”
This is the second blown engine in three weeks for Blaney, he had one at Phoenix after running toward the front in that race.
Despite blowing the engine on the frontstretch, Blaney was able to get the car back to pit road. His team was able to extinguish the fire the car had underneath.
Blaney has struggled in the last month with three consecutive DNFs for the first time in his NASCAR Cup Series career. He was part of a big crash in last week’s NASCAR Las Vegas race.
Blaney has two top-10 finishes this season in the first two races of the season and has finished outside the top 15 in the last four races.
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