This crash was so violent it broke the black box designed to measure it. It is regarded by many as the hardest hit in NASCAR history… and nobody has seen it.
@Empire Productions [TICB] [POC] during the wreck one of the announcers literally said Kurt is getting the worst of it. Just to learn about 1 minute later that it was Sadler who got the worst of it.
I was at this race and had no clue about the Sadler crash until I heard a massive gasp from the crowd when they showed the little footage of it on Sprint Vision.
Man, crashes like that are precisely the reason why the claims for a strictly stock division are impossible to attend.
Can you imagine a strictly stock car on a crash like this? Sadler would’ve been in the hospital, if not the morgue
That will never happen simply for the fact of how different the road cars are, at least with the current models they have in the field, just imagine a stock Toyota Camry trying to keep up with a Camaro ZL1 xD
This is the same argument back in the days of the Monte Carlo, Pontiac Grand Prix and Ford Taurus and Dodge charger cars used by nascar are smaller in size to their stock counterparts and weigh significantly less not to mention a lot faster tho I’ll admit would be nice to see a strictly stock division of comparable cars that are of similar performance much like the days of yor in Nascar’s early days
Oh. My. God. I remember this like the back of my hand and I remember my voice trembling, and I was my pupils were dilated when I saw the Sadler angle. I was in pure shock, as was my mom when we saw Sadler get out of the car and lie down on the ground in excruciating pain…..
I’ve been a Nascar fan for over 25-30 years. I’ve always said that this is the worst crash that I’ve ever witnessed. Head on and to an almost dead stop. Scared the heck out of me. We’re all lucky that Elliott survived this hit!!! Elliott is one of the nicest guys in Nascar.
I remember that. My theory is that Sadler tried to avoid getting caught up in the wreck but ending up getting hit by someone else which resulted in the wreck.
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Thankfully, Elliott Sadler was okay
If only ESPN had another angle showing how Elliott Sadler got turned into the wall, we’d understand. But it looks like we’ll never know
AND KURT’S GETTING THE WORST OF IT!
*Elliot Sadler has entered the chat*
Elliots engine was thrown out
How did Kurt get the worst?
Sadler: hold my beer.
@Empire Productions [TICB] [POC] during the wreck one of the announcers literally said Kurt is getting the worst of it. Just to learn about 1 minute later that it was Sadler who got the worst of it.
I think he is referring to Jimmy the loser Johnson wrecking Kurt busch. Too bad people can’t figure that out.
I was at this race and had no clue about the Sadler crash until I heard a massive gasp from the crowd when they showed the little footage of it on Sprint Vision.
Jimmy the loser Johnson, worst driver ever. Knaus was the talent there.
If ESPN were actually competent, then we would’ve saw it.
Little theory I have, what if there is an angle but it was to violent to release to public
Kinda like Jeff Gordon’s 2008 Las Vegas crash onboard.
Man, crashes like that are precisely the reason why the claims for a strictly stock division are impossible to attend.
Can you imagine a strictly stock car on a crash like this? Sadler would’ve been in the hospital, if not the morgue
That will never happen simply for the fact of how different the road cars are, at least with the current models they have in the field, just imagine a stock Toyota Camry trying to keep up with a Camaro ZL1 xD
This is the same argument back in the days of the Monte Carlo, Pontiac Grand Prix and Ford Taurus and Dodge charger cars used by nascar are smaller in size to their stock counterparts and weigh significantly less not to mention a lot faster tho I’ll admit would be nice to see a strictly stock division of comparable cars that are of similar performance much like the days of yor in Nascar’s early days
That dude that was filming from the infield would have had a really good angle if not for his idiot brother or whatever shaking him.
It still annoys me how there is no clear view of what happened to sadlers car
Oh. My. God. I remember this like the back of my hand and I remember my voice trembling, and I was my pupils were dilated when I saw the Sadler angle. I was in pure shock, as was my mom when we saw Sadler get out of the car and lie down on the ground in excruciating pain…..
Someone needs to ask Elliott about that crash
I was watching this race live on tv and couldn’t believe how hard Sadler hit the wall it literally ripped the front of his car off
I’ve been a Nascar fan for over 25-30 years. I’ve always said that this is the worst crash that I’ve ever witnessed. Head on and to an almost dead stop. Scared the heck out of me. We’re all lucky that Elliott survived this hit!!! Elliott is one of the nicest guys in Nascar.
I remember that. My theory is that Sadler tried to avoid getting caught up in the wreck but ending up getting hit by someone else which resulted in the wreck.
What I’ve heard is that AJ Allmendinger got into the back of him
I was watching that race on TV. It was a miracle that he climbed out.
This man can explain more we need another interview
You can see the pain that man was in climbing out of there