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Ryan Blaney has the win locked in.
He's leading on the last lap of the 2015 Lilly Diabetes 250 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
But here comes Kyle Busch.
Busch, who started 1st in the race, makes a last-lap pass on Blaney. Busch would win the event, and would lead 53 of the scheduled 100 laps in the race.
Blaney said that he kept having flashbacks of the miscue during the race that cost him the win in his mind that Saturday night.
"I kept having flashbacks of Turn 2 and that's not what you want to do," Blaney said during a small break during Sprint Cup Seriesvtesting at Bristol. "Especially when you have a Cup race the next day; especially when it's the Brickyard, your Brickyard debut.
The Wood Brothers Racing driver in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series said that he "didn't sleep a lot Saturday night."
That Brickyard 400 the next day, Blaney managed to forget all about the incident and fight back to a 12th place finish.
"I thought about it all the way up until I got in the race car (for the Brickyard on Sunday)," the Sprint Cup rookie said. "Then I forgot all about it."
"You just have to put that stuff in the back of your mind and forget all about it," Blaney said. "The support that not only Team Penske showed me, but the Wood Brothers and other competitors has really helped me out.
"You can only take away the learning experience from it, learn not to do that the next time." Blaney also said.
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