”Oh *Beep*, This Is Serious” – Few Days Before His Serious Daytona 500 Wreck, Kyle Larson Had Looked Back on His Nightmarish 2013 Wreck Which Injured Over 20 Fans

Yesterday, Kyle Larson suffered a pretty serious wreck in the overtime toward the end of the Daytona 500. In fact, it was that wreck which ended the race and made sure Ricky Stenhouse Jr was the winner.

How this wreck transpired was Aric Almirola bumped Travis Pastrana, who then made contact with Larson, who was very much in the candidacy to win his first Daytona 500.

Within seconds, the #5 hit the outside wall head-on as Larson collected other cars as well. Fortunately, the 2021 Cup Series champ was released safely from the infield care center as were the other drivers involved.

But as serious as this wreck looked, it cannot even compare to the one Larson suffered at the same track ten years ago, which not only annihilated his racecar, but also a big chunk of the fence.

Interestingly enough, the Hendrick Motorsports driver had recently touched on that incident a few days prior to last night’s Daytona 500.

Kyle Larson on his horrific Daytona 500 wreck from 2013

In a recent episode of the Stacking Pennies podcast, Kyle Larson revealed to host and fellow NASCAR driver Corey LaJoie, what went through his mind and how he felt during the impact, and what he saw after he “landed.”

“That wreck, that was wild. It was, I mean, you’re coming out at the end and everybody’s just pushing and nobody’s lifting, like you don’t lift, especially with how well those bumpers lined up,” Larson recalled. “You’re just trying to zig-zag through and I got clipped and hit by Brian Scott maybe and shot me in the air.”

As for how the experience was for him at the moment while he was in the car, he claimed it just got “quiet.”

It didn’t feel like anything, because I think the fence absorbed a lot of the impact, like I didn’t know it was a big wreck. I knew I was in the air but then nothing hurt and I came down and…like I’d seen a little bit of flames coming, so when I finally came to a stop, I got out quick,” Larson added.

Larson didn’t realize the mayhem his wreck caused until much later

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After he got out of the car, Larson said he didn’t even look at the car and what was left of it, which wasn’t a lot.

“I didn’t even realize the front half was gone, or maybe I did, maybe just as I got into the ambulance I saw the front half was gone, didn’t have a clue that my engine and all was in the stands,” he said.

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But it was only after he got in the ambulance and he was looking around that he finally realized how destructive his wreck ended up becoming to the fans sitting in the stands, and the thoughts that came into his mind.

“I remember glancing out the window and it was like, a section of the stands was empty and that’s when I was like, ‘Oh…*beep*, this is serious.’ You’re thinking the worst, like. people are seriously injured,” Larson described.

This whole incident, for Kyle Larson, was what he called, “crazy,” but one which he emphasized once again, “didn’t hurt at all.”

However, the wreck ended up hurting 28 fans in the stands.

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