Terrifying second NASCAR star Sam Mayer flips his car whereas attempting a race-winning transfer on final lap… however fortunate driver avoids damage earlier than admitting: ‘That’s the toughest lick I’ve taken’
Young NASCAR driver Sam Mayer was concerned in a horrifying car-flipping crash at Daytona on Saturday evening, failing in his bid to safe a last-lap victory.
The 19-year-old was racing in the Xfinity Series season-opening race – titled the Beef 300 – and was well-placed to safe some spectacular factors, till his race was turned the other way up, fairly actually, on the final lap.
The race went into time beyond regulation and Justin Allgaier was the chief till his teammate, Mayer, went excessive in an try to make the profitable move.
Contact between Mayer and the eventual winner Austin Hill prompted Mayer to spin and his Chevrolet to flip onto its roof, bringing out a race-ending warning.
NASCAR then needed to evaluate timing and scoring to find out who was the chief when the yellow was thrown.
Sparks fly from the car of Sam Mayer after he flipped it on the final lap at Daytona on Saturday
Mayer (left) was going for the lead on the final lap when he made contact with Austin Hill
NASCAR wanted practically 10 minutes to find out Hill was forward of Allgaier when the race ended. Allgaier settled for second.
‘You cannot raise, it is final lap,’ Hill stated. ‘I hope Sam’s OK, man. That was a heck of a flip.’
Mayer was later cleared from NASCAR’s infield medical heart, and informed Fox: ‘It’s been fairly just a few years since I’ve been the other way up.
‘That was most likely the toughest lick I’ve taken and I believed I’d taken the toughest one I may. That was more durable, so I assume there’s at all times the next ceiling someplace.’
Hill gained the Xfinity Series season-opening race for the second consecutive yr to decrease some of the sting the Richard Childress Racing driver felt two days earlier when he didn’t qualify for the Daytona 500.
Hill rebounded and drove from final to first at Daytona International Speedway.
Mayer admitted afterwards that it was the ‘hardest lick’ he is had as a NASCAR driver
Mayer’s No 1 car crashes on the again stretch in the NASCAR Xfinity Series opening race