NCS: Two records broken in Yellawood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway

It’s been more than 21 years since NASCAR saw a pileup like yesterday in the Yellawood 500 when in 2003 during the Aarons 499 when 27 total cars would tangle just five laps into the race.

However, with laps closing in on the end 28 cars would pile up during a chain reaction would break loose down the back with Cindric, Keselowski, Logano and Burton stacking up the field. Cindric who was leading prior to getting hit from behind by Keselowski would spin in front of the field collecting 27 additional cars in the incident.

NASCAR officially would list a total of 23 cars (#45, 48, 34, 17, 9, 13, 2, 21, 22, 42, 14, 23, 10, 99, 51, 4, 38, 62, 71, 19, 16, 20, 43) but missing eventual race winner Ricky Stenhouse Jr. who sustained left side damage to his No. 47 car during the incident as well as Keselowski in the No. 6 that was part of the initial contact.

The incident would lead to a nearly nine-minute red flag to clean up the carnage from the incident.

This wouldn’t be the only record to fall when on lap 175, Anthony Alfredo would post a lap of 199.297 mph the fastest of the NextGen era.

But just one lap later on lap 176, Shane Van Gisbergen would post a lap speed of 199.438 making it the fastest race lap posted in competition during the NextGen car era.