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Jeb Burton bumps Sammy Smith, causes massive wreck late at Daytona

JHby: Jonathan Howard08/24/24Jondean25
Jeb Burton wreck Daytona
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With less than 25 laps to go at Daytona, the NASCAR Xfinity Series field wrecks after Jeb Burton got into Sammy Smith. This race is going to come down to a late restart, and possibly more.

AJ Allmendinger leads, but not far behind him there was a massive wreck. Jeb Burton gets into the back of Sammy Smith and all hell broke loose on the track. A lot of good cars caught up in this one.

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With only four races left in the regular season for the Xfinity Series, this is going to have massive consequences on the playoff field.

Jeb Burton has been involved in a couple of incidents today. There was a Lap 1 wreck that created a ton of chaos to start this race. Everyone had settled in and relaxed leading up to this wreck. Daytona is unpredictable and when things happen, they happen quickly.

This is a tough break for many of these drivers. Parker Retzlaff, Sammy Smith, and others. There is going to be a huge fight for those last playoff spots. With four races remaining after tonight, there are few opportunities remaining before the playoffs.

Jeb Burton involved in Jeffrey Earnhardt wreck

The NASCAR Xfinity Series couldn’t make it even one lap around Daytona International Speedway without wrecking. Jeffrey Earnhardt got into Jeremy Clements and before you knew it, multiple cars were caught up.

There was too much aggression on the opening restart. Drivers were getting too intense, trying to put other cars middle and abandon them in the draft.

Jeffrey Earnhardt got into Jeremy Clements a bit too much and that was all she wrote. Clements wrecks, Austin Hill caught up, Gus Dean reacted and created a mess even behind the original incident.

Soon after the incident, Earnhardt was on his radio apologizing to all involved. That’s not going to save anyone’s cars, though.

The contact from Earnhardt to Clements was enough to make the caution flag come out. When Gus Dean checked up, it caused a huge mess in the back of the field. Austin Hill, who dropped from the front row to the rear of the field before the race, was involved but is racing with damage.

You hate to see cars wrecked on Lap 1. Seeing this many of them wrecked is even harder to watch. But the racing was mostly clean and competitive for the rest of the night.