{"id":34981,"date":"2021-02-15T04:48:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T05:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=34981"},"modified":"2021-02-15T07:57:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T07:57:49","slug":"daytona-500-race-ends-in-horrifying-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=34981","title":{"rendered":"Daytona 500 race ends in horrifying fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Keselowski has no regrets about the way he handled the final lap of the Daytona 500.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE MOTORSPORT NEWS: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/motorsport\/fernando-alonso-accident-formula-1-cycling-crash-f1-news-updates\/5253f344-1663-4e44-9834-cbaf5c6016fb\" title=\" Formula One driver Fernando Alonso recovering from a cycling accident in Switzerland\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Formula One driver Fernando Alonso recovering from a cycling accident in Switzerland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keselowski had a huge run on Team Penkse teammate and race leader Joey Logano about a mile from the finish line. Keselowski tried to pass Logano on the low side, but Logano blocked him and ended up crashing both of them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE MOTORSPORT NEWS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/motorsport\/romain-grosjean-signs-indycar-deal-after-surviving-horror-bahrain-crash\/1576d38c-f2c1-4336-8ac0-d0dfac84df11\" title=\"Romain Grosjean reveals emotional message from seven-year-old son as he announces racing return\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Romain Grosjean reveals emotional message from seven-year-old son as he announces racing return<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kyle Busch slammed into the side of Keselowski&#x27;s No.2 Ford, sending it spinning and hitting the wall again. Austin Cindric plowed into both, creating a brief explosion and fire. Each driver escaped unscathed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCAR\/status\/1361194197739401218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCAR\/status\/1361194197739401218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad a big run down the backstretch, wanted the make the pass to win the Daytona 500 and it ended up really bad,\u201d Keselowski said. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Don\u2019t feel like I made a mistake, but I can\u2019t drive everyone else\u2019s car. Frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We were in position. It\u2019s exactly where I wanted to be \u2014 running second on the last lap of Daytona with this package. Had the run, made the move and it didn\u2019t work out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael McDowell drove by both and got the win, his first in 358 Cup Series starts. It was a stunning upset in NASCAR&#x27;s signature event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Motorsport\/status\/1361190571927339010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Motorsport\/status\/1361190571927339010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Brad Keselowski has no regrets about the way he handled the final lap of the Daytona 500. MORE MOTORSPORT NEWS: Formula One driver Fernando Alonso <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=34981\" title=\"Daytona 500 race ends in horrifying fashion\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34982,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34981\/revisions\/34982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}