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Bad accident overshadows legendary motorsport event: "First we pray for Ryan"

2020-02-18T06:57:12.337Z


A serious accident on the last lap of the Nascar race in Daytona Beach caused horror.


A serious accident on the last lap of the Nascar race in Daytona Beach caused horror.

  • In the last lap of the Nascar Daytona 500 race there was a serious crash.
  • Leader Ryan Newman hurled his car into a perimeter wall.
  • The seriously injured driver is currently being treated in a clinic.

Daytona Beach - The car of US racing driver Ryan Newman overturned several times on Monday (local time) on the Daytona 500 and was thrown over the road. According to his team, the 42-year-old was seriously injured, but not life-threatening, according to the treating doctors.

The last fatal accident in a Nascar race was 19 years ago, when Dale Earnhardt died in Daytona Beach.

Crash at Daytona 500: Leading Ryan Newman seriously injured

Shortly before Denny Hamlin's victory, Ryan Blaney , who was ultimately in second place, touched Newman's car when Newman was just taking the lead. Its Ford Mustang crashed into the boundary wall , overturned and was hit by another car on the driver's side. It only took a few minutes to put it back on the wheels. The 2008 Daytona winner was then taken to a hospital .

The traditional party for winner Denny Hamlin , who won for the third time, was canceled due to the bad accident. “I think sometimes we take it for granted how safe the cars are. But first we pray for Ryan, ”said Hamlin.

First a foremost I want to give well wishes and prayers to @RyanJNewman. I had absolutely NO IDEA of the severity of the crash until I got to victory lane. There's very little communication after the finish and i had already unhooked my radio. It's not anyone's fault. Rocket

- Denny Hamlin (@dennyhamlin) February 18, 2020

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Source: merkur

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