Heavy mist was already in the air and as the first handful of laps ticked off, it quickly got worse but before NASCAR could throw a caution, leader Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr.
The lap before I went into 1 and it shoved the nose really bad and I was able to keep it under control,” Busch said.
The next time I went down there, hell, I lifted at the flag stand – maybe a little past the flag stand – and just backed it in.
“I think we were just far enough up the field to be in the wreck, but far enough back to where I saw the leaders wrecking and were able to check up and brake 100 feet which kept us out of the wall.
We run slick tires and these cars don’t have any grip on slick tires and wet asphalt.
“We can only go kind of off the pre-race discussions we have before the race with Kip Childress, who drives our pace car – constant communication with him before the race starts,” O’Donnell said.
In any normal circumstance when we hear that, our next call is to the pace car, which is in Turn 1 here: ‘Are you seeing anything on your windshield?’ Drops started picking up.
“As Tim Bermann is about to put out the yellow, we look down and is already getting loose.
The death of Dale Earnhardt in the 2001 Daytona 500 shocked NASCAR to the core.
As the cars tore through Turns 3 and 4 on that fateful final lap, Earnhardt maintained the strongarm tactics that encapsulated his persona… but his actions in those moments sadly proved to be his last.
The NASCAR Cup Series is changing.