NASCAR star Ryan Blaney has named the number one lesson he learned from a disappointing 2025 season.
Last year was the first since 2022 which didn't end with the Penske star in the championship race, with a rough couple of races at Las Vegas and Talladega putting him behind the 8-ball and needing a win going into Martinsville – where he finished second.
To add insult to injury, Blaney took the race win the following week at Phoenix, meaning that he'd have secured his second title in three years if he'd been able to get past William Byron late at Martinsville.
The moustachioed maestro talked to Newsweek recently about how he and his team approach improving their performances and consistency, with Blaney insisting that continuing to learn is key.
Blaney: It's always time to move on
"I’ve always just tried to be better every week and every year and just try to learn," he explained.
Of his off-season work, he added: "In the winter, I always just try to make my whole group sit down and be like, ‘Alright, what did we do poorly? How do we improve that? What did we do well, and how do we build off of that?' There’s always things you can do better, no matter how successful or unsuccessful you were."
Speaking of learning, the 32-year-old shared key takeaway from a 2025 season which he may look back on as a wasted opportunity for title number two, saying: "The biggest lesson we learned, that I thought we did very well, was forgetting bad weeks and [moving] on.
"How do we address it? How do we move past it [and] not stew over things? I think it’s easy to get in your head and stew over stuff you do wrong, but it’s important to move on from them."
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