Ryan Blaney fulfils promise to wife after NASCAR | Sports News

Ryan Blaney remembered to fulfill a heartwarming promise to his wife, Gianna Tulio, moments after coasting down victory lane at Nashville Superspeedway.

On Sunday, Blaney secured a dominant win within the Cracker Barrel 400, main for 139 of 300 laps during the NASCAR Cup Series race. The No. 12 Ford driver efficiently fended off second-place finisher Carson Hocevar, who as soon as again drew the ire of his friends for an on-track incident.

Following the sturdy efficiency — which marked his first win of 2025 — Blaney swiftly acquired maintain of a close by telephone to dial his wife. Speaking to Amazon Prime, he later revealed that his vital different needs him to call her after every of his wins.

“She’s not here, but she always tells me, ‘If you win, you gotta FaceTime me,’” Blaney defined. “I about owe her for five, that’s ’cause I forget. I don’t bring my phone with me, so I had to borrow my PR guy’s. Yeah, so I’m happy I remembered that.

“She was sitting at home, she was excited. I wish she could be here, obviously. I wanted to share a few together. But I’m excited to get back on this year, whatever I came to do tonight.”

This is hardly the primary time that Blaney has held up his finish of a promise to Gianna upon reaching success on the monitor. On the second season of Netflix’s NASCAR ‘Full Speed’ docuseries, the Team Penske driver confirmed off the pool he purchased her after claiming the 2023 title.

“So my little present to myself, mainly Gianna. She told me last year that she’s been wanting a pool forever,” Blaney mentioned. “We get to May and I was like, ‘Alright, if we win a race this year, we’ll get you a pool.’

“So we won the 600 in May, last year, and she’s like, ‘Can we get that pool?’ I was like, ‘Ehh, if we win a Championship, we’ll get a pool.’ Sure as s—, six months later, here we are, win a championship, and one of the first things she said to me on the stage is, ‘So we getting that pool?’ I can’t go back on this one.”

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Prior to Sunday’s win, Blaney slogged by means of a tough 2025 marketing campaign during which he routinely suffered dangerous luck. After rocketing up to the highest spot of the factors leaderboard following the primary two races of the yr, the 31-year-old suffered three straight DNFs – two engine failures and one crash.

On more than event, Blaney appeared effectively on his means to securing his elusive first victory of the yr – however a pit stop error at Darlington and “dumb decisions” at Texas prolonged his winless streak. In an attempt to proper the ship, Team Penske gave his crew a main shakeup back in April.

“It’s been pretty rocky this year — had a lot of misfortune and down times with c—– things happening to us,” Blaney mentioned. “It’s like, ‘What do we have to do to finish these races or close one out and have things go our way? I don’t want to say this was a relief, but finally nothing crazy happened and we were able to run our own race, bring the speed and do our job very, very well.”