“Killed the Center Section of His Car”: Tony Stewart’s NASCAR Driver Gets Livid Over Unfortunate Wreck Involving Arch Enemy Kyle Larson That Ended His Promising Talladega Run

Oh boy, the recent NASCAR Cup Series race was eventful with thrills and frills all along! While Kyle Busch racked up his second win at the prestigious track, the NASCAR community witnessed several cautions in the action-packed race.

Even though the race at Talladega Super Speedway was thrilling and exciting, tensions flared up when two bitter rivals came in contact with each other again! Despite, his exhilarating finish at Martinsville, Kyle Larson couldn’t repeat his success as the #5 driver collided with his arch-enemy, Ryan Preece.

Fans were on the edge of their seats to see the bitter rivals colliding again on the track, although this time, the incident was an unfortunate and treacherous accident!

Later, the Stewart-Haas Racing driver revealed how intense things were on the track when the unsuspecting #41 Chevy crashed into the #5 car.

With the old foes meeting again, Preece describes the collision as he rammed into Kyle Larson

In a race where cars were sliding all over the high-speed track, Ryan Preece explained the carnage on the track when he collided with Larson.

Putting things into perspective, the #41 driver coined it as the “P1 for hits I’ve ever taken in my life.” The driver had a promising start to the race with him comfortably cruising in the top 10 till things went terribly out of order. Speaking to Frontstretch, the community witnessed a frustrated Preece putting things into perspective about the treacherous wreck. 

Coming from the amateur modified stock car scene, Preece is certainly not the type of guy to be intimidated by violent crashes, but this one definitely stunned the driver as he puts it on the top of his list saying, “I’m pretty tough and usually not a lot of stuff you think, man that hurt, that that kind of like was somebody poking at me and say this is gonna, it’s gonna nudge you a little bit so, uh, definitely P1 on the hit list for me.” 

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The driver further painted a better picture explaining things vividly when the reporter asked about his visor being knocked up, “I’m sure it did, knocked a whole lot of things around inside that race car, I think I took a glance at the 5 from where I hit him and it looked like it killed the center section of his car, so I dont know.”

With the rivals colliding again, how did the race pan out for both drivers?

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Things went for a toss as the community witnessed a horrific crash involving two rivals. The Hendrick Motorsports driver, looking to repeat his Martinsville Speedway victory fell short as unfortunate circumstances got the best of him. Fans got to see yet another caution-riddled race at the iconic speedway.

With 2 more laps to go, Larson was in the top 5, battling for positions when disaster laid to waste his impressive run. While the leaders pushed forward, things quickly went overboard as a slight touch caused the leading #42 to crash into the outside wall and Larson to spin around violently.

This caused the #5 to lose control and be at the mercy of oncoming cars, interestingly, an unsuspecting Ryan Preece nailed the final nail to the coffin as he rammed the #5 Chevy violently, causing both drivers to finish the race at 33rd and 34th positions.

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With unpredictable elements lying in every corner, NASCAR races are definitely a sight to behold as it needs an indomitable will to keep looking for success.