18 Feb, 2019 07:00 AM 2 minutes to read. - 02/17/2019 Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Dale Earnhardt, approaching 50, died of a basal skull fracture in the last turn on the last lap of the Daytona 500, … 22 Ford... Joey Logano was leading the Daytona 500 at the white flag, but then a last-lap crash took his … CRASHES may be part and parcel of NASCAR racing but it’s rare to see pile-ups as big as this one. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Joe Gibbs celebrated his first NASCAR victory as a grandfather, watching from the pits as 18-year-old Ty Gibbs won his Xfinity Series debut Saturday on the road course at Daytona International Speedway. After triggering a wreck that wiped out most of the field, Johnson zipped to the lead in Sunday's rain-shortened NASCAR exhibition race at Daytona. Play now. Despite being involved in the wreck, DiBenedetto still found light at the end of the tunnel. Daytona 500 2019: Denny Hamlin wins crash-filled race, honoring late J.D. Never auto play. Don't auto play. Tyler Reddick loses a left-rear tire, making contact with Chase Briscoe and sending him hard into the inside wall in the Xfinity Series race at Daytona. … Daytona 500 2019: NASCAR reportedly not planning changes despite lackluster Speedweeks races Stenouse and Reddick continued and stayed on the lead lap. Friday night, the NASCAR Camping World Trucks Series headed to the Daytona Road Course for the second time. The latest installment in the NASCAR Heat series will be unveiled Saturday, July 6th at Daytona International Speedway, with the game set to launch September 2019. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Teeth chattering, hands shaking, stomach churning, Justin Haley anxiously waited for NASCAR to pull the plug on a rain-wrecked weekend at Daytona … Motorsport: Wild NASCAR crash causes chaos at the Daytona 500. Get short URL ... — RT (@RT_com) February 18, 2019. The 21-car 'Big One' pile-up that caused the 2019 Daytona 500's first red flag turned the "most amazing" day for star NASCAR underdog Matt DiBenedetto into the "most heartbreaking". The Daytona 500 is wrapping up this evening, but the race isn’t concluding without one crazy wreck featuring a ton of drivers. Joe Gibbs Racing driver Hamlin followed up his victory in 2019 with his third career win at Daytona, becoming the first racer to win the opening leg of the NASCAR season since Sterling Marlin in 1995. ... 2019 in Tennessee. He's looking to make history on Sunday, becoming the first reigning Cup Series since Dale Jarrett in 2000 to win the Daytona 500. Logano details Daytona 500 last-lap crash from inside No. NASCAR driver Ryan Newman says he has no memory of his horrific crash in the Daytona 500, nor does he remember his hospital stay until he was leaving with his kids. The race started in the rain and featured numerous on-track incidents, including a late collision between Sheldon Creed and Ben Rhodes. A large wreck involving 21 cars occurred with 10 laps left in the Daytona 500 and resulted in a red flag with 9 laps to go. Shortly after the wreck, the race was called short due to rain, and Johnson was declared the winner. 11th February 2019, 3:19 pm The vast majority of a 20-car field got caught in a crazy wreck yesterday during an exhibition race at the iconic Daytona circuit in Florida. Remarkably, no drivers were injured in the mass collision, dubbed ‘The Big One’ in NASCAR parlance. Gibbs. - 07/05/2019 This was the fourth top-5 finish of McDowell’s career, with the three finishes at Daytona and a fifth at Talladega in October 2019. With less than 10 laps to go, … Clash at Daytona 2019: Results, highlights from Jimmie Johnson's rain-shortened exhibition win ... NASCAR at Daytona: Race results, highlights from The Clash. The NASCAR Cup Series has seen 28 driver fatalities, the most recent of which occurred in February 2001 when Dale Earnhardt was killed during the Daytona 500. See Sunoco Rookie of the Year contender Ryan Preece zip past the Lap 193 wreck in the 2019 Daytona 500. Just nine laps before the end of the 2019 Daytona 500 a huge crash was triggered when fourth-placed Matt DiBenedotto lost control of his Leavine Family Racing Toyota Camry at turn three. Technically, the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season hasn’t started yet, but drivers are already wrecking on the race track. Huge crash at Nascar… Last updated on 18 February 2019 18 ... Just 10 of the 200 laps remained when the crash took place. A Daytona Duel wreck marred the second qualifying race at Daytona after NASCAR had to delay the second Daytona Duel 2 by almost two hours due to … … This incident helped Rhodes win his second consecutive race and only further fueled the rivalry between the two drivers. The 25-year-old won the Cup Series Championship last year but finished 17th in the Daytona 500. A huge crash took out over half of the NASCAR Daytona 500 field, as 21 cars were involved in a massive collision. 2019 Daytona 500: On lap 190, Paul Menard and Matt DiBenedetto got tangled up and caused a 21-car crash which involved the likes of defending Cup Series champion Joey Logano, Martin Truex Jr., Jimmie Johnson, and Chase Elliott, among others. Here's a look at some fast facts NASCAR fans need to know about the Daytona … — NASCAR (@NASCAR) February 17, 2019 6:52 p.m. — After a lengthy delay from a crash that involved 21 cars, according to NASCAR, it's green again at Daytona. NASCAR's megawreck -- otherwise known as "The Big One" -- struck again in the Final Stage of the 2019 Daytona 500. WATCH: Insane NASCAR crash triggers carnage at Daytona 500 18 Feb, 2019 18:41 . Video will play in. Jimmie Johnson wins Daytona exhibition after wild crash wipes out almost entire field ... 2019 9:51am. Clint Bowyer got into the back of race leader Austin Dillon coming into Turn 1, setting off a multi-car wreck in Sunday’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway. ... NASCAR, its teams and Daytona International Speedway honored Gibbs on lap 11 of the Daytona 500.