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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 ...
A crash with 15 laps to go took out a host of contenders, including Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney and Kyle Busch. Logano had a run on 2023 Daytona 500 champion Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Stenhouse moved ...
Ryan Preece was able to get out of his car after an incredibly scary wreck during the final laps of the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona on Saturday night. ... The crash happened with six laps to go in ...
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
Given how NASCAR races unfold at Talladega and Daytona, it was only a matter of time until a massive crash happened — even on the last lap. Keselowski finished second behind Reddick and Noah ...
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 ...
At a news conference five days after the crash, NASCAR officials announced that the left lap belt on Earnhardt's seat belt harness had broken. Dr. Steve Bohannon, NASCAR's medical expert, said he thought the faulty belt had allowed Earnhardt's chin to strike the steering wheel, causing the fatal basilar skull fracture. This led to speculation ...
By the mid-1990s, competitors and media began taking note of the multi-car wrecks at Daytona and Talladega. In 1997, Dale Earnhardt described a final-lap crash at the 1997 Pepsi 400 as "the Big Wreck". [5] News articles began using the term "Big Wreck" to describe such crashes in 1998, [6] and by 1999, its use was widespread. Drivers began to ...