NASCAR: Mother Of All Crashes At Daytona – Drivers Ok, Spectators Injured

A massive pile-up at the end of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Coke Zero 400 at Daytona saw as many as 13 fans injured, one hospitalised but in a stable condition. 

But, miraculously, all drivers involved emerged uninjured from their cars. 

In a race that was won by NASCAR veteran, Dale Earnhardt Jr, only three cars on track managed to avoid the high-speed pile-up. 

Triggering the astonishing carnage. and the domino effect that then shredded the field, was a coming together that saw Austin Dillon's #3 Chev become airborne, flip across two lines of chasing cars, slam into the fence, then catapult back onto the track in a shower of mangled metal.

When Dillon got out of the car, the crowd, who had been expecting the worst, cheered when he waved and gave the 'thumbs up'. 

Despite there being little left of the car, and a dismembered engine sitting folornly near the infield, he was examined then given the all-clear by the track medical centre.         

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