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Daytona 500 crash: Watch Justin Allgaier cause big wreck that collected 20 cars in 2026 NASCAR season-opener
Here is more on the Daytona 500 crash that impacted half the field, with 20 cars involved.
The big one came near the end of the second stage of the Daytona 500 and was caused when Denny Hamlin attempted to take the lead from Justin Algaier.
Thirty-seven cars were involved in accidents as Reddick emerged from “Daytona madness” to win NASCAR’s biggest event.
Allgaier races full-time in NASCAR's second-tier O'Reilly Auto Parts Series for JR Motorsports. It was his second straight Daytona 500 racing for Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s team, as it has attempted each of the past two 500s.
Today is the anniversary of a tragic loss, as the world honors and remembers the 25th anniversary of the death of the legendary Dale Earnhardt on the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500. But just 20 laps earlier,
Bubba Wallace took the lead on Lap 54, then crashed coming out of Turn 2.
Federal safety officials have concluded that retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle was not flying his jet when it crashed last month, killing him and six others.
(WHSV) - Twenty-five years ago on Feb. 18, 2001, famed race car driver Dale Earnhardt Sr. was killed in a car crash. During the 2001 Daytona 500, Earnhardt was driving his famous back No. 3 Chevy when he collided with another car on the 43rd lap. That crash sent him and his vehicle crashing into a wall.
Cody Ware and Ty Gibbs started a crash on lap 85 at the 2026 Daytona 500, catching up nine cars, according to the Fox broadcast.