Ryan Blaney won't be at the party celebrating Kyle Larson's championship, and the reason is a fall at dinner that sent him for medical attention.

Blaney, the 2023 Cup Series champion, will miss Tuesday night's NASCAR Awards at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami after the fall on Monday, which came just a day after he won the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

He has also withdrawn from Wednesday's Ford Proud to Honor Veterans Day Classic at Daytona International Speedway, a charity race featuring Ford drivers from NASCAR and beyond, all in Ford Mustangs.

Blaney was set to represent the U.S. Marine Corps alongside drift racer Ben Hobson, and Robert Noaker will take his place.

Blaney explained what happened in a statement on Instagram.

"I was out at dinner last night with my family and some friends and I accidentally took a fall that required medical attention," Blaney said. "I am doing okay and am resting and recovering. I'm disappointed to miss celebrating Kyle Larson and the NASCAR Championship today and Ford's 'Proud to Honor race' tomorrow at Daytona."

"While I won't be there, I'll be supporting my teammates and fellow Ford drivers as they honor each branch of the U.S. Armed Forces on Veterans Day," he added.

He has time to recover, since the next points-paying Cup Series race is about three months away. The full awards show will air Friday, Nov. 13 on The NASCAR Channel.

The fall caps a roller-coaster stretch for the Team Penske driver. Blaney entered the new 10-race Chase as the second seed behind Denny Hamlin with three wins, but his postseason was full of setbacks.

He opened with a fourth-place finish at Darlington, then finished 35th at Gateway after a brake rotor failure and 33rd at Bristol, where contact with Carson Hocevar led to a fight after the race.

Four straight top-five finishes followed at Kansas, Las Vegas, Charlotte and Phoenix, where he was second, but a multi-car wreck at Talladega ended his race on lap 132. At Martinsville, Josh Berry brake-checked him, and Blaney spun and finished 35th, which ended his title hopes.

He still finished the season in style. After pitting to fix a loose wheel at the end of Stage 1 and restarting at the back of the field, Blaney climbed to fifth by the end of Stage 2.

He restarted fourth with eight laps remaining and passed Tyler Reddick on lap 266 of 267 to win by 0.314 seconds, his fourth victory of the season and 21st of his career. The win lifted him to fourth in the final standings, 94 points behind Larson, and it avenged a heartbreaking last-lap loss to Reddick at the same track in 2024.