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Christopher Bell won Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Atlanta with a last-lap pass before a crash on the backstretch. Bell passed Kyle Larson on the last lap and finished ahead of Larson and ...
NASCAR inexplicably didn't throw a caution on the final lap. The day before in the Xfinity Series race, race control rightly threw the caution on the last lap because of a hard crash in the tri-oval.
NASCAR’s rain-delayed Daytona weekend was an expensive and crash-filled mess. According to NASCAR’s box score data, at least 80 of the 114 cars in the Daytona 500, second-tier Xfinity Series ...
He was flung through the air and slammed on the ground. The 30-year-old truck salesman died of multiple injuries in the speedway hospital a short time later. [12] [13] Tab Prince: February 19, 1970 Car NASCAR: 125-mile race: Qualifying Race [note 1]
40-lap race Norwood Arena: Feature race Cut down Habe Haberling (USA) [55] February 21, 1961 250-mile race: Daytona International Speedway: Practice Modified Division Ray Platte (USA) [56] [note 15] July 20, 1963 100-lap race South Boston Speedway: Feature race Modified Division Lou Smith (USA) [58] [note 16] May 15, 1965 25-lap race Fonda Speedway
The crash happened with six laps to go in the 160-lap race. Drivers had taken it easy for much of the final stage of the race before their final pit stops.
The Big One is a phrase describing any crash usually involving eleven or more cars in NASCAR, ARCA, and IndyCar racing. It is most commonly used at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway, although occasionally seen at other tracks as well, such as Dover Motor Speedway and Watkins Glen International.
Byron avoided a last-lap crash by racing near the outside wall and went on to win “The Great American Race.” “Just obviously fortunate that it worked out in our favor,” he said. “Crazy.