Blaney, Jones address Clash crash. ‘It’s funny he thought I was supposed to apologize.’
An intense moment at last week’s Clash at the Coliseum hasn’t been forgotten.
NASCAR driver Erik Jones said Wednesday during Daytona 500 media day that he hasn’t heard from Ryan Blaney since the two collided at the Busch Light Clash in Los Angeles on Feb. 6.
“No, he hasn’t reached out to me,” Jones said. “So I guess it’s resolved.”
Blaney was hit from behind by Jones late in the Clash and appeared to be driven into the wall. Afterward, Blaney directed his frustration at Jones on the track, throwing his HANS device at Jones’ car and saying in an on-track interview that Jones “killed our car” and wanted “to destroy me for seventh.”
Blaney added at the time, “Yeah, I was mad, but you’ll have that.”
Since then, the two haven’t reconnected. As far as Blaney is concerned, they have nothing to talk about. They’ll race again in Sunday’s Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway for NASCAR’s premier event.
The first round of single-car qualifying begins at 8:05 p.m. Wednesday.
“The way I look at it, if I’m racing somebody and I brake check them, I guess I’d expect to get wrecked, you know,” Jones said. “It’s not like I meant to take the guy out of the race. I didn’t just intentionally right turn into the wall.
“He’s probably upset about that for sure. He was having a solid round there obviously.”
Added Blaney: “No, I haven’t talked to Erik. I don’t really have anything to talk to him about. I’m over it. I don’t know. It’s funny he thought I was supposed to apologize after I got (fenced), but two people are going to think differently. ... It’s in the past, and we move on from it.”
This story was originally published February 16, 2022 at 11:27 AM.
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