Ryan Blaney is back where he belongs. The Ohio native won the pole position ahead of the 2025 Ambetter Health 400 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Joining him at the top are his teammates Austin Cindric and Joey Logano (2nd and 4th, respectively), highlighting the team’s dominance in the Cup Series once again. Roger Penske’s side has thoroughly dominated the Next-Gen era, as the team has won all three championships since the new car was introduced in 2022. However, their 2025 campaign didn’t get off to the best start.Joey Logano’s blunder cost the Penske duo a shot at victory. Despite the slight blip, it seems like Team Penske has found its footing once again and the No. 12 Ford driver has shared the reason behind their success.Ryan Blaney shares Team Penske’s secret for successThey say, ‘Teamwork makes the dream work’. It’s a motto the Team Penske drivers seem to live by, going by their dominance in the NASCAR Cup Series. In the last three years, Joey Logano has won the championship twice, while Ryan Blaney secured three wins in 2023 to clinch the Bill France Cup at Phoenix Raceway. Despite both the drivers competing against each other in the Championship 4 fixture last year, placing the team’s victory ahead of their personal ambitions was key to securing a one-two finish at ‘The Desert Oddball’.It’s a strategy all three Team Penske drivers are hoping to implement once again at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Sharing his thoughts ahead of the second race of the season, Ryan Blaney said, “We bring really fast cars, that’s a huge part of it, but it’s also like, we make it a huge point to find each other and be committed to each other. I personally feel like we do it better than other groups and that’s what makes us really successful.”Despite Team Penske’s dominance, the racers don’t always get it right. At the 2025 Daytona 500, Joey Logano attempted to make a three-wide pass, and the risky maneuver resulted in the No. 22 Ford making contact with Ricky Stenhouse Jr’s No. 47 Chevy. The incident set off a chain reaction, which resulted in Blaney getting caught up in the wreck. While Blaney managed to recover and finish seventh in the season-opener, the damage incurred by Logano’s vehicle was too severe and forced the driver to retire early. “We always make a point to find each other…”@Blaney addresses @dennyhamlin calling @AustinCindric the best superspeedway racer out there today, saying he is a regular fan of the @DirtyMoMedia show. #NASCAR pic.twitter.com/wkJrp6zDVn— Peter Stratta (@peterstratta) February 22, 2025However, that is in the past. Ryan Blaney finds himself in a unique position of being surrounded by his teammates and fellow Ford driver Josh Berry from Wood Brothers Racing in the top-4 starting spots at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Revealing what makes his team tick, the 31-year-old said, “Everyone is a little bit different mindset-wise but I think it’s a product of teammates working together, and everyone at Team Penske is doing a good job of bringing some competitive cars every time we go to these speedways.” Well, the stats are promising for the Penske drivers as they have put on a strong showing at superspeedways in the Next-Gen era.At drafting tracks (Daytona, Talladega, and Atlanta) since 2022, Joey Logano (450), Austin Cindric (327), and Ryan Blaney (297) have led the most laps! The Fords seem to crush it on these tracks and Blaney would hope that they don’t come in each other’s way this time. In terms of average finish, Blaney has dominated Atlanta since 2022, with an average finish of 7.2! However, one driver that Penske needs to be wary of is Daniel Suarez.Suarez has an average finish of 7.3, right behind Blaney and The No. 12 Ford Mustang driver finished 0.003 seconds behind Daniel Suarez at the 1.5-mile oval last year. Will he be able to redeem himself at Atlanta this time around?Logano uses marriage analogy to resolve Blaney’s disputeJoey Logano has come under plenty of criticism lately. The three-time Cup Series winner was responsible for a multi-car wreck at Daytona International Speedway, which resulted in Kyle Busch saying, “You gotta know how wide your race car is to find a hole that it will fit in and he obviously doesn’t know that.” However, Ryan Blaney being caught in the wreck was one of the biggest talking points of the incident, as it snatched the Ohio native’s chances of securing a victory at ‘The Great American Race’.Revealing how he addresses issues with his teammates, Logano used a marriage analogy and said, “I think it’s just like any other conflict you have with your spouse, right? Where is the intention? Is the intention to wreck your teammate? Absolutely not. Does it go against any of our rules we come up as a team with on how we win speedways? No, it did not. Does it s—? Absolutely.”Unintentional wrecks are an inevitable reality in a sport defined by fine margins such as NASCAR. However, both Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney will have put the incident behind them going into the second race of the season in Atlanta. The reigning Cup Series champion secured a victory at the 1.5-mile oval during the opening playoff race in 2024. Will he be able to repeat that achievement this time around? Let us know your thoughts about it in the comments!The post Despite Joey Logano’s Blunder, Ryan Blaney Dismisses Trust Issues to Flaunt Roger Penske & Co.’s Trump Card appeared first on EssentiallySports.