The World Center of Speed al of a sudden angry into the World Center of Salvage backward Saturday night.
Amazingly, Brian Vickers’ No. 83 Red Bull Toyota survived several abutting shaves to accomplishment 11th at Daytona International Speedway — a gigantic egg-shaped that morphed into a bullring to accommodate a agrarian accomplishment on Fourth of July weekend. There were 11 attention flags on the night, and 5 of those coiled in the final 29 laps to force overtime. Brian was appropriate there to see a lot of of them.
“The car’s in one piece. It’s bigger than a lot of humans can say,” he said. “It was absolutely a wreckfest.”
With 24 laps to go, Denny Hamlin and Ryan Newman circuitous appropriate in foreground of Brian. He able safe and did the aforementioned four laps after if Casey Mears and Jeff Burton absent it up ahead. Brian took ambiguous activity down pit road, and NASCAR put him 25th in band on the restart.
Another attention banderole coiled with 11 laps remaining. Crew arch Kevin Hamlin brought Brian in for four tires and adjustments to alleviate up the car. He restarted 28th and steered bright of two added melees, with the final one advance just off his rear bonanza that concluded the chase beneath yellow.
The accomplishment was acceptable abundant to advance Brian’s 16th-place position in the disciplinarian standings. He’s 112 credibility out of the top 12.
“That is by far the wildest chase I accept been a allotment of in years,” Brian said. “I’ve never been baffled and banged so abundant in my life.”
After condoning 13th, AJ Allmendinger had a night he’d rather forget. The No. 84’s right-front annoy bootless 20 laps into AJ’s aboriginal Daytona race, and the car tagged the wall. After accepting the hook, AJ spent what seemed like a decade in the garage. He alternate to the clue 60 laps after and accomplished 42nd.
The No. 84 snuck up to 37th in the buyer standings and is 200 credibility from the top 35.
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