Filed under: Bristol Motor Speedway, NASCAR Crashes

They had the big one Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway but it wasn't Talladega, so it wasn't really the big one.

Believe it or not, though, that little episode of bumper car madness coming out of turn three on lap 342 involved 13 cars.

The size of the wreck was somewhat surprising, considering that the resurfaced Bristol is still proving to be tamer than the Bristol of old, and the narrower exits out of turn two and four appeared to have no discernible effect. The drivers were still going two wide all the way around the track.

The yellow flag flew 10 times in Sunday's race, which is average for the track since the resurfacing in mid-2007, but only six of the 10 caution periods were for crashes.

And after the brutal wreck in Saturday evening's Scott's EZ Seed Showdown legends charity race, none of Sunday's incidents really showed up on the radar.

The vicious T-bone crash of Larry Pearson and Charlie Glotzbach didn't even look like a NASCAR crash of today -- it looked more like a really bad crash from, well, back in their day. Glotzbach's car not only pierced the driver's side of Pearson's car, it deeply penetrated it, seemingly almost to Glotzbach's windshield.

 

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