Such an odd night that NASCAR admitted afterward that the last-second caution in a race that had to end under green probably shouldn't have been called.
Even runner-up Denny Hamlin agreed to that, but was frustrated that Blaney wasn't black-flagged for dropping his window net when initially thinking that Sunday night's race was over.
“Obviously Ryan Blaney thought he won the race,” said Scott Miller, NASCAR’s senior VP for competition.
Blaney spent pretty much the entire caution period trying to secure the net, all while having to maintain speed
Hamlin even said he would have done the same thing that Blaney did if the situation had been reversed.
Pushed by his Penske teammate Austin Cindric on the restart after the green-white-checkered finish. Blaney was able to stay in front and hold off Hamlin, who finished 0.266 seconds behind.