Lap 32 wreck takes out Bowman, Bubba, JTG-Daugherty drivers and others
FORT WORTH, TEXAS – A 12-car wreck on Lap 32 of Sunday’s Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 at Texas Motor Speedway saw several heavy-hitters get taken out.
Bubba Wallace slid up the track into Kurt Busch exiting turn two. Wallace spun and hit Ross Chastain, which caused a wreck that blocked the track and involved 10 other drivers.
“Just embarrassed on my part. I was just trying to get clean air, went to the middle, realized this wasn’t good, backed out and by the time I backed out it was already around,” Bubba said in an interview with NBC. “Sorry to everyone who came to cheer on the 23 car, I let them down.”
The wreck was the largest in track history and took out Wallace, Alex Bowman, JTG-Daugherty drivers Ryan Preece and Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ryan Newman, Justin Haley, Cody Ware and Joey Gase.
Aric Almirola, Cole Custer and Michael McDowell were also involved.
No Playoff drivers were involved in the wreck. Gase will finish 39th – last – in Sunday’s race.
SOURCES:
NASCAR
Racing-Reference.Info
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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.
A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.
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