Congrats to Ryan Blaney! After years of knocking on the door of joining the elite, he overcomes pit crew struggles and straight up outruns Larson, even off what looked to be another clutch pit stop to win it all! Also such a good race on its own, especially later on! Even just one lap of Blaney and Larson's epic back-and-forth in the closing stage had infinitely more excitement and intrigue than all 312 laps of last year's finale put together. (I mean, the Cup finale track could still be better, but unless it's modern Texas, even the most mid tracks will all have a good one on occasion.)
(I normally use the league's own pictures for these posts, but this Trackhouse one was too awesome to ignore!)
Also, while I would have preferred to see the Closer win tonight (enjoy retirement, Harvick!), I'm so glad to see Ross take home the win! Granted, it kinda made last year hurt even more since now I'm just wishing he ran like that last year at this track instead of laying down and letting Logano bludgeon everyone, but great to see him end a relatively underwhelming season with a win. And even if it was in far less publicized fasion, it's cool to see the Melon Man make playoff history for the second year in a row by becoming the first non-champion since 2013 (and of the bracket era) to win the finale! Here's hoping good footage of his post-race celebration surfaces soon enough, because I need to see just one last melon smash before the year is done.
Welp, time for some championship-worthy memes and posts because why not.
And lastly proof that Penske's social media guy has Future Vision (plus some reactions I captured at the very last second):
BTW I TOTALLY FORGOT TO MENTION DID YALL SEE WHAT JUST HAPPENED IN NASCAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BhJuu_rJeQ
https://youtu.be/FLWc1uTvwGk
WHEN I TELL YOU I WAS YELLING WHEN I FIRST SAW IT
GUY IS BEHIND IN THE RACE, PULLS OUT A MOVE FROM A VIDEO GAME AND FULL THROTTLES IT USING THE WALL TO HELP HIM TURN AND CATCH UP. ABSOLUTELY INSANE.
HALF OF EVERYONE I KNOW IS TALKIGN ABOUT IT ITS INCREDIBLE
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