Ryan Blaney shades Carson Hocevar after contact, narrowly escaping Brickyard wreck

A big wreck coming immediately following a caution sidelined Joey Logano and Jimmie Johnson, but Ryan Blaney was the first one involved in the wreck and came out really no worse for the wear.

Blaney checked on his team radio after the wreck to see what happened, and his response will not surprise many in NASCAR.

According to Davey Segal of Sirius XM, Blaney asked who it was that got into him going into Turn 1 and he was informed it was Carson Hocevar.

“Ha,” Ryan Blaney said. “Yeah that doesn’t surprise me.”

He wasn’t finished there, either, critiquing Hocevar for his driving quite pointedly.

The wreck took place when the cars were getting ready to head into the turn, going two wide across the track. Hocevar pushed to make it three wide, getting some space between two other cars.

But he had nowhere to go, eventually making contact with Blaney’s left rear and sending him angling into Logano. Logano went straight into the wall and collected Johnson with him.

Ryan Blaney had something to say about the whole incident, according to The Athletic’s Jordan Bianchi.

“Where on God’s green earth did he think he was going? … I don’t understand how some of these guys process what they process,” Blaney said. “It’s shocking to me.”

It wasn’t the first major wreck on the afternoon resulting from some heavy traffic on the track. A few minutes earlier, a wreck that collected William Byron, Harrison Burton and others had forced out a caution flag.

Following the wreck that Ryan Blaney got out of relatively cleanly, there were 47 laps to go.