VIDEO: Insane NASCAR crash is part fender-bender, part ballet

The NASCAR Daytona 500 featured an absolutely enormous crash shortly before the end of the famous race which wiped out 21 cars in a sparking, fiery wreck. Contact between Paul Menard and Matt DiBenedetto sparked the incident, which impacted most of the cars behind them.

Menard attempted a 'bump and run' on his rival, but it did not come off, instead backfiring in the most remarkable way.

Reacting to the incident afterwards, Menard said: "I'll take the blame for that one. It was go time, and I was pushing the 95 [car] and it looked like he was trying to get to the middle and I started trying to get to the outside and just barely hooked him. Yeah, that was my bad. I wrecked a lot of cars. I feel bad about that."

Remarkable slow-motion footage of the incident is utterly hypnotic. You kind of forget that several tonnes of metal is being twisted and crumpled at the same time…

This is insane ????

(via @NASCAR)pic.twitter.com/J8lATbxBs2 — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) February 17, 2019

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