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

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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…

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