At Talladega, it's not a question of if The Big One is coming, but when.
With five laps of the 188-lap blast around the superspeedway in the books, the field was jockeying for position with Austin Cindric and Ricky Stenhouse Jr the leaders, as Todd Gilliland was lapped.
As the field roared past Gilliland, Cindric got too far ahead of the pack, with Brad Keselowski then pushed into his former #2 Penske machine by Joey Logano's #22 Penske, tapping Cindric into a spin - and collecting the rest of the field behind him.
A total of 28 cars were involved in the wreck, the highest-number ever collected in a crash in the Cup Series.
In 2002, in the Busch Series, (now XFinity), some 30 cars were collected in an accident also at Talladega, but the below smash is the record for the Cup Series.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr claimed his second win of the season after the Daytona 500 but does not advance to the next round of the Playoffs having already been eliminated, with Kyle Larson finishing fourth with just 0.006s seperating Stenhouse and runner-up Keselowski with William Byron third.
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