Early accident of the Daytona 500 involves 16 cars

Early accident of the Daytona 500 involves 16 cars

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Sixteen cars were involved in Sunday Daytona 500’s first major incident on lap 14.

Shortly after the accident, a radius within a 13 km radius of the track interrupted the race at 3:28 pm ET. The rain started around 3:45 pm

As the field descended the straight to Curve 3, the contact behind Christopher Bell made Aric Almirola spin towards Alex Bowman as they ran for second place behind leader Kevin Harvick.

The crash hit Ryan Newman, Martin Truex Jr., Ryan Blaney, William Byron, Daniel Suarez, Matt DiBenedetto and Tyler Reddick, among others.

Seven cars were confirmed out of the race: Almirola, Bowman, Suarez, Newman, Erik Jones, David Ragan and Derrike Cope. Cope, the winner of the Daytona 500 in 1990, crashed on lap 3 after an apparent tire failure.

“We were being pressured very early,” said Almirola. “It is a very, very long race. Dude, we were in a good position, just sitting there walking between the first two, three and 20 (Bell) came in with a big run and hit me very hard in a bad place and turned me to the right and tore our car away. race and finished our Daytona 500 very early. “

Bowman said, “It looks like (Almirola) kind of turned over there and I was the guy who ran into a bump. … I tip my hat to everyone at Hendrick Motorsports; they built some really fast racing cars. I hate super speed racing to work that way sometimes, but that’s only part of the game. “

Byron qualified on the front row alongside pole position Bowman, but gave up his second starting position after destroying his main car in Thursday’s Duel qualifying races.

He tweeted that the damage to your spare car suffered in the Sunday incident can be repaired.

Newman, who was making his return on the Daytona 500 a year after surviving a terrible crash on the last lap, said he had nowhere to go.

“I missed the wreck, but I was hit from somewhere and that was the end of our day,” he said.

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