Watch the fiery Daytona 500 fracture that precipitated a wild attain and Michael McDowell’s bewitch

The Daytona 500 ended in a fiery fracture on the remaining lap of the paddle, surroundings up an upset bewitch by driver Michael McDowell.

McDowell used to be a 100-1 underdog to bewitch heading into the paddle after going 0-for in his diverse 357 profession NASCAR Cup Series begins. McDowell used to be lucky ample to attain out of the fracture with out getting eager. Brad Keselowski began the fracture by tapping leader and teammate Joey Logano as Logano tried to block.

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McDowell barely averted contact to plod into first predicament, and got right here away as the winner.

“My belief used to be to stick with the 2 car,” McDowell stated after the paddle. “I knew he would hotfoot for a paddle-a success plod, and my belief used to be to let him invent that plod and then coming off of 4 to dangle a study out to get to his outside or interior. I knew I didn’t decide to invent my plod too early, so I used to be dedicated to the 2 car’s bumper, and when he made the plod, the outlet opened up. It’s appropriate kind not seemingly.”

The bewitch occurred after a 5-hour, 40-minute rain prolong following a 16-car fracture on Lap 14. By the time the remaining stretch of the paddle began there were already 11 autos out of contention.

As for the remaining fracture, Fox’s NASCAR broadcast had a acquire breakdown of all the issues that came about.

It looked for a moment as if Dawdle Elliott had taken the lead from McDowell, but Fox freeze-framed the “moment of warning” and it showed McDowell clearly used to be in the lead when the warning flag used to be waved.

Images of the fracture expose a fiery scene, but fortunately every person eager got right here out safely.

Here’s one remaining search on the damage and injury in slack saunter.