The biggest crash in NASCAR Cup Sequence historical past occurred Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway and picked up seven championship contenders within the course of.
Austin Cindric was main the YellaWood 500 off Flip 2 when an accordion impact down the backstretch ended along with his bumper being tagged by Brad Keselowski. Cindric, the chief of the within lane, bounced off Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who was main the skin lane, from the preliminary contact after which spun in entrance of the sphere.
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NASCAR listed a complete of 27 vehicles concerned within the crash, which is probably the most all-time within the Cup Sequence. It resulted in a purple flag of almost 9 minutes.
“Once we needed to go the [No.] 38 automobile in (Turns) 1 and a pair of, it stretched the entire backside lane out,” Keselowski stated of how the wreck began. “The underside needed to transfer to the center, the center needed to transfer to the highest, and it simply broke all people up. It was a large rubber band and the rubber band snapped again.”
The playoff drivers concerned within the wreck have been Cindric, Tyler Reddick, Chase Elliott, Alex Bowman, Joey Logano, Chase Briscoe and Daniel Suarez. Cindric and Logano failed to complete the race.
“I simply bought turned on the entrance of the sphere,” Cindric stated. “Sadly that’s how Daytona ended for us and I feel what that claims is we’ve bought actually quick race vehicles and nice execution. Because the chief, I used to be making an attempt to be as predictable as doable so far as taking pushes and it’s only a actual disgrace. I don’t actually really feel like doing an entire lot of complaining about what occurred or whose fault it’s; it doesn’t actually matter.
“It places us in a must-win state of affairs for the Charlotte street course. We’ve introduced some exceptionally quick race vehicles each single race of the playoffs, and I can not understate how proud I’m of my race crew and we’ll should carry one other one subsequent week.”
Cindric is 29 factors out of a switch spot into the following spherical of the playoffs going into the ultimate elimination race of the spherical. He entered the weekend in the identical place.
Logano was pushed out of a switch spot due to the wreck. The 2-time collection champion is now 13 factors beneath the cutline.
“Everybody simply will get extra aggressive on the finish of the races,” Logano stated. “The [No.] 2 bought on the market just a little bit greater than what he had been and the [No.] 21 gave me a shove and transferred that to the [No.] 6. You possibly can’t see what’s in entrance of you from there, and he bought to the [No.] 2 with a good quantity of steam there.
“It’s no one’s fault. It’s not Brad’s fault. It’s not anyone’s fault. It’s simply the product of the racing that we’ve bought. Everyone seems to be getting increasingly more aggressive because the laps wind down and it occurs. It occurs so much.”
Cindric completed thirty second and Logano completed thirty third.
Bowman was the highest-finishing playoff driver of these concerned within the wreck in sixteenth place. Reddick completed twentieth, Suarez was twenty sixth, Elliott was twenty ninth and Briscoe completed thirtieth.
The 4 drivers beneath the cutline going to Charlotte are Logano, Suarez, Cindric and Briscoe. Logano was the one driver who fell beneath the cutline who was in a switch spot at first of Sunday afternoon.
