On lap 164, Jimmie Johnson shuffled Kyle Petty out of line in turn 1.Eventual race winner Ward Burton barely made it to the inside of the spinning Harvick to avoid the crash. Matt Kenseth, Ricky Rudd, Ken Schrader, John Andretti, Kenny Wallace, Casey Atwood, Johnny Benson Jr., Bobby Labonte, Jeremy Mayfield, Joe Nemechek, Mike Wallace, Jimmie Johnson, Bobby Hamilton, Todd Bodine, Dave Blaney, Jerry Nadeau, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Harvick slid up the track, hit the wall, and slid back down the track, collecting an additional 17 cars (18 in total). Second-place Kevin Harvick attempted to block the advancing Jeff Gordon going into turn one on lap 149, resulting in the two making contact and Harvick being spun down to the apron.Incidentally, Earnhardt had narrowly escaped being caught up in the lap 173 crash, nearly being hit by the spinning Ward Burton. This crash, however, was later overshadowed by Dale Earnhardt's fatal crash on the last lap.
Burton's and Stewart's cars blocked the track, starting a chain reaction crash that collected 18 cars in total, including Burton, Stewart, Labonte, Gordon, Rusty Wallace, Steve Park, Terry Labonte, Mark Martin, Jerry Nadeau, Jason Leffler, Elliott Sadler, John Andretti, Jeff Burton, Andy Houston, Jeff Gordon, Kenny Wallace, Buckshot Jones, and Dale Jarrett. The car briefly landed on top of Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Bobby Labonte before falling onto the track and rolling to a stop in the infield grass. Stewart's car went straight into the wall, catching air, landing on its side on top of Gordon's car, and tumbling across the track while getting hit by other cars.
NASCAR THE BIG ONE SERIES
In many NASCAR video games, there are in-game challenges that revolve around avoiding Big Ones at different tracks.Įxamples NASCAR Cup Series īy 2009, Talladega Superspeedway marketed itself on the notorious crashes, with a one-third-pound frankfurter sold at the track called "The Big One". Some have complained that the sanctioning body, promoters and media have celebrated the crashes. The Big One has been the subject of criticism of NASCAR. It soon became standard NASCAR vernacular, and it became a retronym to describe past such accidents as well. It's what we've all been fearing in this kind of racing is going to happen." īy 2001, the phrase was widely used by competitors, fans, and in print and broadcast media.
The term was also being used informally by fans on message boards.ĭuring the 2001 Daytona 500, Fox commentator Darrell Waltrip used the term on-air to describe an 18-car crash in the backstretch on lap 173, as saying "It's the big one, gang, it's the big one. Commentator Bob Jenkins said during the crash on lap 134 "This is the big one that we had hoped we would not have." One of the first published instances of the term "The Big One," was an April 18, 2000, article on about a crash in the DieHard 500.
One of the first times the term "The Big One" was used on-air was during the Winston 500 on ESPN October 11, 1998.
NASCAR THE BIG ONE DRIVERS
Drivers began to openly admit they were apprehensive of its possibility. News articles began using the term "Big Wreck" to describe such crashes in 1998, and by 1999, its use was widespread. In 1997, Dale Earnhardt described a final-lap crash at the 1997 Pepsi 400 as "the Big Wreck". Until the 2000s, massive crashes were referred to as "major" or "terrific" crashes.īy the mid-1990s, competitors and media began taking note of the multi-car wrecks at Daytona and Talladega. Five-wide pack at Talladega Superspeedway in 2019.
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