MOORESVILLE, N.C. — In the latter stages of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race at Phoenix, Ryan Blaney of Team Penske was starting to lose his cool. He had raced his way up to second place behind Ross Chastain’s No. Penske has earned the nickname, “The Captain” because he is a captain of industry and the leader of the race team. Chastain went on to win the race, Blaney finished second and became the NASCAR Cup Series champion. To get to this moment, have a championship, you have to run a perfect race to get it. When Blaney started at Team Penske, 2012 Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski was the leader of the team. Team Penske’s other driver is Austin Cindric, the 2022 Daytona 500 winner. Blaney was a winner and is talented but wasn’t always viewed as the top driver at Team Penske.

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