Josef Newgarden and Conor Daly had a 200mph shunt in Turn 4 at Texas Motor Speedway on lap 42 of the 267-lap Firestone 600. Daly was exiting Turn 4 when his Dale Coyne Racing-Honda got loose and when he applied opposite lock, the right-rear hooked up and sent him up the track where he smacked into Newgarden’s Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet. The right-rear appeared to mount the side strake in front of the left-hand sidepod of the #21 and strike the cockpit area of Newgarden’s car while simultaneously pushing it into the SAFER barrier. The ECR car then flipped onto its side, top surface to the wall, and ground its way down the track, and then as the track curved, Newgarden made a...
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