Chaos as Usual: Megacrash in NASCAR - See the Footage!

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Updated: 12:48, 10 Aug 2025

Ludo van Denderen is a motorsport journalist at GPblog, specializing in Formula 1 and international racing series.

If there's one racing class where the most bizarre accidents regularly occur, it's NASCAR. The Americans enjoy this, and honestly: so do we.

This time it happened at the Watkins Glen circuit, where no less than sixteen (!) cars were involved in a massive crash. Fortunately, everyone was unharmed, but there was plenty of damage. So, lots of work for the mechanics!

Here's the footage of the crash!

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