Listen in as Kyle Petty gives his take on Ross Chastain and Ryan Blaney racing hard/blocking at the end of the Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway.
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00:00 Well, it's over with and we have a champion. Ryan Blaney, the 2023 Cup
00:06 champion. So exciting. What a great day. Great run through the playoffs. He
00:10 showed he's worthy of be a champion. But what everybody's talking about is race
00:15 etiquette. Did Ross Chastain do anything wrong? Did Ryan Blaney do anything
00:22 wrong? One's running for a championship. One's running for a race win. His
00:27 second race win of the year. It's only fitting that the spoiler is and the
00:31 person we're talking about is Ross Chastain because he's been a thorn in
00:34 the side of just about everybody in the sport since he started winning races
00:38 with track house racing. We saw it on multiple occasions and we heard it on
00:43 the radio. Well, we really didn't hear it. We just heard a bunch of beefs from
00:46 Ryan Blaney's radio. Finally, in between one and two, he gets in the back of
00:51 Ross Chastain. He just bumps him hard and he was asked post race. Was that on
00:56 purpose? And he said, yes, it was on purpose and it was on purpose. It was so
01:00 blatant. But is that right? Is that right for him to roll in and do it? I
01:05 believe yes, I believe it's okay for him to roll in and get into Ross and try
01:08 to get Ross upset and try to get Ross out of the way. I also believe it's
01:13 okay for Ross Chastain to take away the line of the second place car, which was
01:18 Ryan Blaney, no matter whether he's running for a championship or not. So I
01:22 look at it and it's two wrongs, two wrongs in some cases, but in this case
01:27 it's two rights and two rights make it okay with me. We came away no harm, no
01:33 foul. Ross Chastain wins the race first time in 10 years of racing that a non
01:38 championship driver has won the race. But we have a champion and it's Ryan
01:42 Blaney and he was calmed down when it was all over with.