Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Erik Jones limps to Busch Crash (Clash) win at Daytona,

This is your Busch Clash winner, Erik Jones, and his tired Toyota Jalopy.
Erik Jones got a push from teammate Denny Hamlin to win Sunday’s crash-filled Busch Clash with a car that, well, was quite representative of the crashing during the race.

The nose of Jones’ car was kept together by tape. The hood was buckled toward the cockpit and the Toyota markings on the front were completely disconnected from the bumper.

Hamlin’s car was beat to hell too. Pretty much everyone’s was. Every car in the 18-car field was involved in a crash at some point as drivers kept crashing and crashing and crashing.

Thankfully they didn’t crash on the final restart of the 88-lap race. Jones got his huge shove from Hamlin on the final lap as Ryan Newman made a move for the lead with his banged-up car on Austin Dillon. That opened the high side for Jones and Hamlin as they blitzed Dillon and Newman as the six remaining cars in the race raced to the checkered flag.

“I don’t care if I was going to push him into a wreck, I was going to push him,” Hamlin said. He was a lap down for the final restart and wasn’t able to race for the win. He finished sixth.

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