Daytona 500 crash: Big One late in NASCAR race ends the chances of several contenders

The big one waited Monday.

But it came with a fury. The big wreck at the Daytona 500 came with eight laps left in the race when Alex Bowman bumped into teammate William Byron to

It came with Ross Chastain leading the race. Chastain just missed getting clipped in the wreck as the cars behind him all began to wreck.

It started when Alex Bowman bumped teammate William Byron from the middle lane. Byron then got into Brad Keselowski, whose car got turned inside and clipped pole sitter Joey Logano.

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Chaos ensued.

"It's speedway racing — it's a lot of fun until it sucks," Logano said to FOX in his post-crash interview.

When the smoke had cleared those effected in some fashion by the wreck included Ryan Blaney, Keselowski, Logano, Martin Truex Jr. and Denny Hamlin. Others who had damage included Chase Briscoe, Noah Gragson, Kyle Larson, Daniel Suarez, Todd Gilliland, Ty Gibbs, Erik Jones, Daniel Hemric, Ryan Preece, Tyler Reddick, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Anthony Alfredo.

The race was forced to be red flagged to clean up the damage.

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