There are times when nature calls for a <a href="https://www.on3.com/pro/category/nascar/news/">NASCAR </a>driver. Kyle Larson experienced that in the Coca-Cola 600 a few years ago. While the details are…murky…Larson admits that he has had an accident while in the driver’s seat on Sunday, at least once. 



Everyone laughed when Tyler Reddick admitted to peeing in his firesuit on the regular. Then he keyed up on the radio last season at one point to talk about how he was possibly going to throw up or soil himself otherwise while fighting a stomach bug. 



“I’m throwing up, sh***ing myself, all of the above,” <a href="https://www.on3.com/pro/news/tyler-reddick-throwing-up-in-car-battling-illness-during-southern-500/">Reddick said at Darlington </a>at the end of the regular season last year. He made it through, though. 



Well, Kyle Larson has had a very similar experience. To Reddick’s credit, he didn’t actually go through with the Number 2. Larson sure did, though. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6356695/2025/05/15/kyle-larson-nascar-love-max-verstappen-12-questions/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jeff Gluck of The Athletic asked</a> Larson what his most miserable time in the race car has been. Larson obliged. 



“The Coke 600, I don’t remember what year it was, but I had a stomach bug going on, and yeah, we had to relieve some pressure,” Larson said. “It felt good, but it was miserable. Very miserable.”



Kyle Larson somehow avoided his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_i_M3gNev0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">own Paul Pierce moment</a>. No one saw that Larson had a moment in the car. And trust me, it would have likely been noticeable if anyone was paying attention. 



“I had a white suit, and I didn’t know what it looked like back there,” Larson added. “I just lowered it and ran over to my golf cart and my bus driver and hauled ass in the motorhome. It was bad.” 



600 miles is no joke. That is an endurance race. For example, Supercars, where Shane van Gisbergen spent 17 years, race the Bathurst 1000 every year (1000 kilometers), and that is a 621-mile race. In that race, there are co-drivers. NASCAR has no co-drivers. 



Now, 600 miles on an oval versus 600 miles on a road course is different. But still, this race is no joke. It is definitely not the race you want to have an illness during. 



This year, Kyle Larson is REALLY hoping to stay healthy. After all, he isn’t just doing 600 miles on May 25th. He will be racing 1100 miles total between the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600. Any kind of illness could derail his entire attempt in year two. 



Right now, Larson is the biggest thing in American motorsports. He might be the biggest thing in motorsports, period. He is putting in so many laps between NASCAR, IndyCar, sprint car races, and whatever else he ends up doing. Let’s see how that works out for him this year.

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