Ryan Blaney Highlights Penske’s Trust Culture While Hamlin-Gibbs Fallout Grips NASCAR Amid Joe Gibbs Racing’s fallout at Loudon, race winner Ryan Blaney highlighted Team Penske’s emphasis on teamwork

The Round of 12 opener at Loudon didn’t just see Team Penske’s domination, where Ryan Blaney won his third of the year, but it also saw the contrasting sportsmanship traits in two major camps. While Joey Logano and Blaney combined to lead a whopping 263 out of 301 laps and showed solid teamwork, Joe Gibbs Racing drivers Denny Hamlin and Ty Gibbs clashed on track, showing the opposite.

It wasn’t just Logano and Blaney. The final fight between Blaney and Josh Berry set a better example of clean teammate racing. “I was going to race him hard but clean,” said Berry post-race. And now, Blaney has spoken his side of the story with Kevin Harvick, especially about the communication aspect among the teammates in the Penske camp, in light of how the Hamlin-Gibbs case demonstrated a lack of it.

R