Christopher Bell suffered the hardest crash impact of the Next Gen era of NASCAR per Mike Forde (NASCAR VP of racing comms) on Hauler Talk.
"Delta-v is the measure of speed lost in an incident. I can’t give out the Delta-v number for Bell. That data is proprietary in a way. We share that with the team and the driver, and that’s their data to do with what they want.
"But we can confirm that it was the largest number we’ve seen in the Next Gen era.”
Link: art19.com/shows/hauler-talk
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@CBellRacing suffered a fractured left wrist after an accident on lap 148 of Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway. After being evaluated and released from the infield care center, Bell returned home to North Carolina where X-rays confirmed the fracture. Bell has been cleared and will be behind the wheel of the No. 20 Toyota Camry XSE this weekend at Pocono Raceway.
24 cars were running at the finish of today's race, the fewest for a Michigan Cup race since August 1987.
Additionally, the last three races had 34 cautions, there were a total of 34 cautions in the six races prior to this.
Last night, Jayden Steele caught on fire, spun out, jumped out of the car while it was still moving, jumped in front of the car to stop it, then did a back flip…I think there’s a new “Mr. Excitement” in town.
Steele is a driver in the Factory Front Wheel Drive (FFWD) division at the legendary Indianapolis Speedrome in Indiana.
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