Ryan Blaney's masterful wrestling of the trophy in Sunday's Axalta 400 at Pocono Raceway is arguably the most popular moment of the 2017 NASCAR season. Blaney joins Ricky Stenhouse Jr. at Talladega and Austin Dillon at Charlotte to get his first-ever Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series win in the last five weeks. Blaney's famous No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford drew raucous cheering and a windfall of congratulations from both the at-track crowd and the millions watching from afar. And while Stenhouse Jr.'s and Dillon's victories were both popular and long coming, Blaney's had a different feel.

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