That’s not entirely true about Talladega, which more times than not turns into a mess of wrecked race cars.
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Keselowski said thats just part of restrictor-plate racing at the 2.66-mile superspeedway.
“I wish there wasn’t so much distance between the track and the wall (on the backstretch) because you gain such momentum at such a bad angle when you go there”, she said.
Danica Patrick set Matt Kenseth’s Camry to fly off the road, flip upside down, smash into the wall and slide along the concrete on the vehicle’s roof, before landing upright with a bump. In Kenseths accident, Patrick hit hard into an energy-absorbing wall that that seemed to buckle upon impact.
Here are six of the most terrifying crashes, including violent somersaults, smashing hits, cars on fire, sizzling smoke and a heap of wrecked metal.
I have a pretty decent bruise on my arm and my foot, and my head feels like I hit a wall at 200, she said. “My chest hurts when I breathe”. It was the third multi-car wreck over the race’s final 26 laps. Then, at the back of the pack, Michael Annett and Buescher collided – which somehow sent Buescher tumbling in a frightening, airborne wreck.
NASCAR’s post-race report for Sunday listed 35 of the 40 cars as being involved in accidents.
With just less than seven laps to go in the race, chaos ensued once again. No wonder he gets pumped when he wins in Alabama. I dont need to be here..
The cataclysmic gloom and doom coming to NASCAR’s restrictor plate tracks is inevitiable. Two drivers going airborne and landing on their roofs is never a good thing. Once the race hit the halfway point and was official, drivers began their charge to the front because they couldn’t avoid waiting and rain suddenly ending the event.
The biggest incident involved Danica Patrick and Matt Kenseth. What a way to lead us to the first ever edition of NASCAR Victory Lap. “The whole race we were racing like we were racing to the end”. There was no moments to relax at all.
In a normal Talladega race, drivers will tell you that after the initial excitement from the start, they prefer to settle in to a groove through the middle stages before going all-out for the final stretch run. “Then some people took it to the edge”. It isn’t flexible. Yet on Sunday, the line that it represents was bent back and forth between the thrill of watching incredible racing and the chill of watching a Joie Chitwood Thrill Show.
With all due respect for a fine newspaper, I ask you the question: Is there really a problem at Talladega, and if there is, who says it needs to be fixed? But its just plate racing. If not for today’s safety equipment, we would be talking about a lot worse.
AMELIA IS DESTROYED: Defending race victor Dale Earnhardt Jr. brought his favorite auto, named “Amelia” to Talladega in search of his first win of the season.
DISAPPOINTMENT FOR DALE, PART II: At some point after the crash and following repairs, Earnhardt returned to the track only to have the steering wheel come off in his hand. By the time the last few laps arrived, the tri-oval smacked of bent fenders and duct tape-heck, even Junior’s steering wheel fell off.
Maybe that’s why I sat in the media center on Sunday evening grappling with my feelings about the race I had just watched and the carnage – made up only of cars – I’d watched loaded up into the team haulers for home. Im done, he said. “There’s really no reason to make a knee-jerk reaction to what we saw Sunday and see how it plays out the rest of the year”.
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“Yeah, the biggest thing is something just let go there, and you hate to collect anybody, so definitely sorry to the 88 (Earnhardt) guys for getting their vehicle involved in that”. “We had something torn up there, drove down into turn one and I just felt the right front fall down and that was it. You’re kind of just along for the ride”. That gave Tony Stewart the free pass, allowing him to get back on the lead lap, but he did not keep it, as when he got into the pits, he got out of the auto, and Ty Dillon got into the vehicle to finish the race.
