Ryan Blaney wins crazy Xfinity race at Kentucky

Ryan Blaney cruised to the win in the #22 Team Penske Ford in a very eventful Xfinity Series race at Kentucky Speedway on Saturday evening, the second of two annual events for the series at the 1.5-mile tri-oval. It was Blaney's second Xfinity win of 2015 and the fourth of his career; he now has eight total national series wins including his four Truck Series wins. The 300-mile, 200-lap race was effectively split into two with a red flag after 100 laps when the #42 Chevrolet of Brennan Poole collided with the #0 Chevrolet of Harrison Rhodes on the backstretch. Poole was previously involved in a lap 2 incident with Ryan Reed (#16) and Blake Koch (#8). Rhodes' teammate Michael Self (#01) wrecked a few laps later.

Front row starters Daniel Suarez (#18) and Brian Scott (#2) had the good cars during the early laps, but it was ultimately Scott's RCR teammate Ty Dillon (#3), Blaney and Suarez's Joe Gibbs teammate Erik Jones (#54), who sped all the way from the back after Drew Herring qualified the car, who dominated the middle portions of the race. In between a pair of late cautions, it looked as though third Gibbs driver Matt Tifft (#20) could pull off an upset in his series debut. Two more restarts shuffled Tifft back several spots. Meanwhile, Suarez and Scott both encountered problems with their cars and lost multiple laps. The #9 JR Motorsports Chevrolet of Chase Elliott and the #1 Roush Ford of Elliott Sadler battled each other for a few laps, while Elliott's teammate Regan Smith (#7) snuck in a top-ten finish. After the race, Scott and Sadler's teammate Darrell Wallace Jr. (#6) exchanged words on pit road. The series next heads to Dover, Delaware as part of a tripleheader with the trucks and Cup.

Race Results:

1. 22-Ryan Blaney
2. 3-Ty Dillon
3. 7-Regan Smith
4. 9-Chase Elliott
5. 33-Brandon Jones
6. 62-Brendan Gaughan
7. 60-Chris Buescher
8. 54-Erik Jones
9. 6-Darrell Wallace Jr.
10. 20-Matt Tifft