Joey Logano goes for the multi-flip special, walks away
September 28th, 2009
Exceedingly scary moment at Sunday’s AAA 400 at Dover, as rookie Joey Logano dipped into the grass, then got t-boned and flipped more than half a dozen times before coming to a hard stop. Hearts were in mouths as everyone watching feared the worst, but fortunately, Logano popped out none the worse for the wear:
And, as always, it bears repeating: for all the grief that NASCAR receives for its clunky Car of Tomorrow, wrecks like this make it all worthwhile. If NASCAR had still been running older models, Logano, Michael McDowell, Carl Edwards and Jeff Gordon — all of whom have suffered brutal wrecks in the last couple of years — might not still be with us.
"It just really scared the heck out of me," Logano said afterward. "The biggest thing was, I was fine the whole time, [but] I’m not really sure what happened … I haven’t seen a replay, and I’m not sure I want to see the replay. It started rolling, and I was in there, thinking, ‘Man, just make this thing stop.’ It wouldn’t. It just kept going and going. It goes to show how safe these cars are. I was fine."
Logano walks away from scary crash shaken but OK [NASCAR via Yahoo! Sports]
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