Watch The Talladega Big One Replay In Slow Motion

NASCAR and "Big Ones" spell together for illustration peanut food and jelly — you tin person 1 without nan other, but nan 2 together make for 1 tasty treat. But its nan series' superspeedways that really toggle shape these wrecks into literal show-stopping events. Venues for illustration Michigan and Talladega are particularly inviting to specified at-speed title disasters, nan second way played location to a record-breaking clang for nan bid conscionable a twelvemonth prior. Sunday night's wanted to springiness past year's sermon a situation though.

The Cup Series took to nan Alabama superspeedway pinch 40 cars connected way practically fresh for a rip-roaring 188 laps for only 2 stages. The first shape was comparatively calm, and Ryan Preece crossed nan statement for nan greenish and achromatic checkered. Perhaps nan first stage's deficiency of chaos is why nan 2nd shape was opened up to thing a small much exciting.

The 2nd shape gets underway and cars spell four-wide conscionable a fewer car-lengths backmost from nan front, which thing that wide successful a battalion is simply a metaphorical reddish emblem for instability to come. But nan battalion would not beryllium nan problem. It was Bubba Wallace's No. 23 Camry exiting shape correct into nan SAFER barrier.

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In real-time, it appeared Wallace was nan problem successful this chaotic scramble. Just seconds before, Ross Chastain's No. 1 Ford, down Wallace connected nan wrong lane, moved to nan middle. Wallace cautiously followed suit, but remained leader up of Chastain, and unchangeable for conscionable a fewer moments.

But slow mobility revealed all. In nan NASCAR video above, eyes people gravitate to nan 4 wide earlier nan turn, but they should watch nan cars lined up successful nan halfway up of that group, specifically Joey Logano's No. 23 Ford. It's nan 3rd car down Wallace's Camry. Logano bumped into Ryan Blaney's No. 12 Ford, which caused a concatenation guidance of bumps into Chastain and past into Wallace's rear, sending nan No. 23 into a small wobble and clear crossed battalion postulation into nan extracurricular wall and into nan way of Cole Custer's No. 41.

It took little than 10 seconds to swipe retired nan section arsenic nan fallout reached nan different broadside of nan way and collected astir everyone, including nan eventual title winner, Carson Hocevar.

The messiness required nan bid to reddish emblem nan title arsenic cars were hauled distant aliases limped backmost to nan pits for repairs. NASCAR said only 26 cars were involved, 2 cars awkward of nan "record-making" clang astatine nan aforesaid way conscionable past year. Maybe not a record-maker this time, but surely different 1 to adhd to nan infamous "Big One" books.