12 crew was already celebrating the victory in the pits and Blaney had lowered the window net on the backstretch. scrapping the wall at the back of the field. The checkered flag was already waving for Blaney, who was approaching the start-finish line when the caution lights suddenly came on because of Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Miller said it was obvious to everyone that NASCAR “probably prematurely called that yellow flag.” “That’s another byproduct of kind of special rules of the All-Star, because every other race that we do besides this one, he would have won the race when the caution flag came out.” “Obviously Ryan Blaney thought he won the race,” said Scott Miller, NASCAR’s senior VP for competition. Even runner-up Denny Hamlin agreed to that, but was frustrated that Blaney wasn't black-flagged for dropping his window net when initially thinking that Sunday night's race was over.

Such an odd night that NASCAR admitted afterward that the last-second caution in a race that had to end under green probably shouldn't have been called. 12 Ford, the one he somehow got secured enough to run two extra laps and win NASCAR's All-Star race and $1 million - after he and Team Penske thought they had already won once. FORT WORTH, Texas – Ryan Blaney is talking about framing the window net from his No.

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