NASCAR All-Star Race’s controversial ending and Ryan Blaney’s window net issues, explained

This was wild.

Welcome to FTW Explains, a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. Have you seen some of the tweets and videos and such from the ending of the 2022 NASCAR All-Star Race and wondered what the heck happened? We’re here to help.

Ryan Blaney won Sunday’s All-Star Race at Texas Motor Speedway … but it wasn’t without some serious controversy.

And NASCAR deserves some blame for the way it all went down at the end of the race.

But it’s a little bit confusing, so we’re going to break it all down and explain it: