Alex Weaver caught up with defending champion Ryan Blaney, who finds himself in a must-win situation as he looks to defend his Cup Series title.
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00:00We're here in the NASCAR cup series garage at Martinsville Speedway with Ryan Blaney who
00:04Points wise probably in a must-win for you guys in this 12 crew to advance to the championship for how do you manage?
00:10This racetrack with your car and the aggression level a short track presents. Yeah. Yeah, definitely
00:16Must win we understood that it was it was that way last week and you know
00:19We had a good shot and just didn't quite happen for us, but we look forward to coming here
00:23We've we've had really good runs here in the past and obviously doing what we did last year at this race
00:28You know was was great and everyone stepped up and did a great job all weekend and especially all 500 laps on Sunday
00:35so yeah, you just
00:36Wonder what you got, you know, I don't know what we have until we get out there the new tire might be a little bit
00:41Different it's nice to have some more practice
00:43But yeah confidence is high this this team is ready for the new goal and the new tasks that we have to achieve and
00:48No, we were on that Monday morning, you know
00:50And this team does a great job of just what is the next job that we have to succeed at and do our best at?
00:57It's this weekend, so hopefully we can do that this time last year
01:00It was a walk-off win to make it to Phoenix and you guys went on to win the championship
01:03But this track has its own demands. So a perfect car for you would have what?
01:09Yeah, it definitely is a funky racetrack everyone every racetracks, you know
01:13Special in its own way of how you want to approach it and how you need your car to drive. But yeah to me here
01:19I've always just kind of been a big fan of how fast can I roll right along the curb, you know and kind of get
01:24under the rubber and
01:25So that's always I've always looked for turn here like that's that's my biggest thing
01:29but you know at the same time we've kind of seen the track get wide the last couple years and then a second groove come and
01:35Then you need your car do something a little bit different. So I try to look for both in practice
01:39I think the track will get wide enough in practice where you'd be able to mess with both lanes and kind of see
01:44What you might have for the race as far as that goes
01:47So but yeah turn is the biggest thing for me, but gosh, you're always adjusting. I mean, I might have
01:53Incredible turn in practice and I actually we need a backed off on it
01:56So it's just certain balances that you need being able to run the bottom or the middle
02:00So we'll find out what I need more of when we get going. Good luck this weekend. Thanks