DAYTONA BEACH — NASCAR star Ryan Blaney’s success on superspeedways, the latest coming with Saturday night’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 win , requires him to ignore looming danger, if not destruction, lurking at every turn.

The 31-year-old third-generation driver set aside a history of hard luck and violent crashes at Daytona International Speedway to earn a narrow win by 0.031 seconds over Daniel Suarez during a riveting regular-season finale that set the field for the 10-race Cup Series playoffs.

Before Blaney’s late-race surge carried him to the thrilling victory, his parents suffered every twist, turn and close-call during the 160-lap affair. But veteran driver Dave Blaney and wife Lisa ultimately were rewarded for a reluctant trek to Florida’s Surf Coast to see their only son deliver

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