Ryan Preece thought of what really matters in life, because his car n ° 60 was airborne with only five laps to do in the 67th race of Daytona 500 Sunday evening.
Preece was in the middle of the peloton when a wreck at the top of the race hit him in the worst way, car n ° 20 by Christopher Bell the Fracant, stealing his vehicle through the night of Florida.
When the preece car again hit the track, it was overthrown upside down, still traveling at high speed before finally returning to normal and slamming in the wall.
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The pilot of the NASCAR CUP series, Ryan Preece, n ° 60, is in the air after a wreck during the Daytona 500 in Daytona International Speedway. (Images of Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn)
Fortunately, Preece came out of the wiper unscathed, although there was a moment while he was in the air that he started thinking about his family, especially his daughter, Rebecca Marie.
“Yeah, I don’t know if it’s the diffuser or what it makes for these cars as a plywood sheet when you go out on a windy day,” Preece told Fox Sports in an interview after leaving the track.
“But, when the car took off like that, and it became really silent, everything I thought was my daughter. So, I am lucky to leave.”
Several wreck angles have shown how frightening the wreckage was, including a look of the car n ° 43 by Erik Jones, which was also involved in the spin-routes.
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From the point of view of Jones, Bell’s car coming out of the right wall has come out of nowhere, and Preece got everything.
The front of the vehicle immediately raised in the air, and as Preece said, the winding conditions – two delays came to this race from bad weather – to remove the car.
The pilot of the NASCAR CUP series, Ryan Preece, n ° 60, is in the air after a wreck during the Daytona 500 in Daytona International Speedway. (Images of Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn)
This is the second time in the preece career, he turned to Daytona, so even if he has already experienced this, it is never a good feeling of going through it.
Preece was also thinking about Fronettrech after the race, adding that “something must be done” with cars because they should not remove the route as it did.
“The only thing I mean as a father, as a runner, is that we continue to beat on a door hoping for a different result. We know where there is a problem at superspeedways. So, I do not Do not want to be an example of when he finally gets someone – I don’t want it to be me.
The pilot of the NASCAR CUP series, Ryan Preece, n ° 60, is in the air after a wreck during the Daytona 500 in Daytona International Speedway. (Images of Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn)
“So something should be done because the cars leave the ground like that, which felt honestly worse than Daytona in ’23.”
