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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 ...
The last four points races at Daytona and Talladega have featured 13 crashes with five or more cars. And every driver crashed during last week's Busch Clash.
This is the largest carburetor restrictor plate opening since the one inch (25.400 mm) mandate in 1988, the first year the horsepower-reducing plates were used in the Cup Series at Daytona. [18] Unfortunately, the restrictor plates have an unintended effect on the race. Because of the reduced horsepower of the cars, the cars form large packs.
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.
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The Daytona 500 big one came with eight laps to go. Eighteen cars, including Denny Hamlin and pole sitter Joey Logano included in wreck. Daytona 500 crash: Big One late in NASCAR race ends the ...
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 ...
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.