Part of Road & Track‘s “The Big Ones: 3 Tales of Motorsport Calamity” in Vol. 33, 2026
There’s nothing in racing more brutal, or more shamefully entertaining, than a field-clearing wreck at a NASCAR oval. The recipe for disaster is simple: Start a race with a large field of cars, then run them at breakneck speeds with little breathing room. Voilà, vehicular mayhem.
Lalita Chemello 