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The 2019 Daytona 500, the 61st running of the event, was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on February 17, 2019, Contested over 207 laps—extended from 200 laps due to an overtime finish, on the 2.5-mile (4.0 km) asphalt superspeedway. After three multiple cars crash in the last 20 laps (including the Big One on lap 191 which ...
In the wake of a fatal corner worker crash at Daytona International Speedway in 2004 in a non-NASCAR sanctioned race (but using track workers), [39] NASCAR has become reluctant in recent years to use local cautions, opting to use the full-course yellow caution flag instead if any safety team members have to approach the track in an attempt to ...
Typical three-wide pack during the 2021 Daytona 500. Five-wide pack at Talladega Superspeedway during the 2019 GEICO 500. Until the 2000s, massive crashes were referred to as "major" [1] [2] [3] or "terrific" [4] crashes. By the mid-1990s, competitors and media began taking note of the multi-car wrecks at Daytona and Talladega.
Twenty-two cars were involved in this crash with less than 10 laps to go in the Daytona 500. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) Crashing over 70% of cars over a race weekend is simply not ...
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The majority of the Daytona 500 was incident-free. There were no crashes in between the two wrecks in the final 10 laps of the race and a crash that happened on the fifth lap of the race.
This correlated with an increased frequency for the cars to get airborne until Ryan Newman suffered an extremely serious crash on the final lap of the 2020 Daytona 500. Speeds during this race eclipsed 210 miles per hour at times, with the fastest lap average nearing 207 miles per hour, the fastest race the track had seen since the 1980s.
William Byron ends Hendrick Motorsports' nine-year Daytona 500 drought by hanging on to win after avoiding a crash just as the white flag comes out.