After intensive climate delays, the 67th operating of the Daytona 500 lastly got here to an finish hours after it started, with William Byron taking the Nice American Race for the second 12 months in a row.
However one of many main moments from this season’s Daytona 500 was a scary crash involving Ryan Preece, coming within the closing laps. With the sector bunched up Christopher Bell bought an enormous bump from behind by Cole Custer, sending Bell’s No. 20 Toyota to the appropriate, after which into the outer wall.
As Bell’s Toyota turned, it made contact with Preece’s No. 60 Ford, which was operating alongside the No. 43 of Erik Jones. These two vehicles touched, and the entrance finish of Preece’s Ford then lifted into the air, earlier than sending Preece on a fully wild experience:
Up within the FOX Sports activities commentary sales space former drivers Clint Bowyer and Kevin Harvick expressed amazement at seeing Preece’s automotive go airborne in such a way.
Preece was in a position to stroll away from the incident, and was launched from the medical heart after a quick analysis.
Right here is one other take a look at the incident from Jones’ No. 43:
Interviewed after being launched from the care heart, Preece admitted that because the wreck was taking place “…it bought actual quiet and all I thought of was my daughter.”
This isn’t Preece’s first terrifying second at Daytona Worldwide Speedway. In the course of the 2023 Coke Zero Sugar 400 he once more went airborne, flipping ten instances earlier than his automotive got here to a relaxation on the infield:
That incident led NASCAR, which owns the Daytona monitor, to conduct a security assessment. The outcomes of that assessment led to NASCAR paving the backstretch grass after final 12 months’s Daytona 500, and making alterations to the earlier curbing and concrete pads.
Nonetheless, as Preece famous this was one other scary incident, one which he was fortunate to stroll away from.
“I’m fortunate to stroll away, however we’re getting actually near any person not having the ability to, so I’m very grateful,” added the driving force.
